Hip-Hop Artists Who Embrace Beg Gay, Lbian or Bisexual - XXL

Contents:

• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• GAYHIPHOP
• THE BT GAY RAP SONGS
• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• ILOVEMAKONNEN ON BREAKG FREE OF ‘INDTRY POLICS,’ BEG GAY HIP-HOP AND WHEN THGS ‘SOURED’ WH DRAKE

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

But when Orville Peck’s myster barone follows the twangy guar to “My mama told me when I was young/ We are all born superstars, ” brgs the gay anthem to another level. If you walk to a gay club wh the next few months and don’t hear the openg, heart-poundg stras of Vct’s “Kill My Heart, ” ll the police, bee a crime has been mted. He don't shy away om beg open his mic about his sexualy and sex life, which isn't unmon for straight artists to do hip hop mic, but not necsarily for a gay artist.

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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Lil Nas X me out as gay 2019.

Chart-toppg rapper Lil Nas X, who tapulted to stardom wh his viral h 'Old Town Road', publicly me out as gay June the last day of Pri Month, he tweeted, "some of y'all already know, some of y'all don't re, some of y'all not gone fwm no more.

Kehlani me out as gay April 2021, proudly clarg a TikTok vio, "I am gay, gay, gay. "i felt gay always sisted there was still a le drawn as to which ‘label’ of human i was attracted when i really j be walkg around thkg ERRYBODY FINE, " she wrote a sce-leted a 2020 terview wh Diva Magaze, she said, "I’m fely on the non-bary sle.

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Kaytranada revealed he is gay an 2016 terview.

Grammy Award-wng producer and DJ Kaytranada me out as gay 2016, the same year his teemed but album 99. "Inially tellg his mother and brother that he was bisexual, Kay later admted that he was gay. ""I don’t ll myself straight, I don’t ll myself gay, ’s jt me…” he said.

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"But, I gus, I am gay. Kev Abstract me out as gay 2016. Brockhampton ontman Kev Abstract me out as gay 2016.

He often raps about his sexualy his lyrics, tellg Gay Tim that his goal is to "normalise" homosexualy.

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Here's a look at hip-hop artists who embrace beg gay, lbian or bisexual. After police nverged on the bar to arrt and harass the LGBTQ atten, as was ctomary, many fought back, sparkg what would spire the gay liberatn movement.

ILOVEMAKONNEN ON BREAKG FREE OF ‘INDTRY POLICS,’ BEG GAY HIP-HOP AND WHEN THGS ‘SOURED’ WH DRAKE

The rult was Gossip’s “Standg In the Way of Control, ” an angry kiss-off to policians, homophob and anyone else who wanted to keep queer people down. Tom Robson Band, “Glad to Be Gay”. Long nsired to be the “gay natnal anthem” of Bra, Tom Robson Band don’t hold back on the 1978 track.

While the song may not have the fiery energy of other prott songs, the lyrics directly ll out police btaly, homophobic vlence and those who sist that queer people are ls than human. The group then sps the face of all that vlence, directg their dience to “sg if you’re glad to be gay.

” An explosn of bottled-up dignatn, the song se the sger-songwrg barrg his way through societal failur like homophobia, e equaly, police btaly, gun vlence, polil rptn and much more. Dis has always been a mil movement embraced by the gay muny. The lyrics proclaim the story of a man proud to be gay, set to an upbeat, shimmerg dis beat.