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Contents:

• RICKY MART TALKS NEW MIC, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GAY LATO IN
• ‘I’M HERE TO CHANGE PEOPLE’S MDS’: REMEMBERG KEV FRET, GAY TRAPERO
• PROSECUTOR SLAYG OF GAY PUERTO RIN RAPPER KEV FRET SAYS SHE WAS STCTED TO STOP VTIGATG
• OZUNA REVEALS HE WAS EXTORTED OVER AN 'TIMATE VIO' BY MURRED GAY TRAP STAR KEV FRET
• OPENLY GAY RAPPER MURRED PUERTO RI AMID WAVE OF VLENCE
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• GAY PUERTO RIN RAPPER SHOT DEAD IN SAN JUAN

RICKY MART TALKS NEW MIC, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GAY LATO IN

In 2010, the Puerto Rin sger me out to his fans as a gay man; nearly 10 years later, he received his first Emmy nomatn, for his role The Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story. It really tickl me to see Bad Bunny as a gay in — jt like Cher uld be.

To see Rossello rign, pecially after those flammatory chats were leaked [where Mart is scribed as a “male chvist” for beg gay] — was a powerful show of force. And there’s no blueprt for beg a gay parent. On March 29, 2010, Ricky Mart me out as gay on a post on his webse.

“I am very proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, ” he wrote. Wh Mart’s announcement, gay artists, who had long kept their sexual inti a secret, fally had a bean of hope. Sce that pot, a growg number of Lat artists have eher e out after years the spotlight, or many have simply started their reers by embracg their gay inti.

‘I’M HERE TO CHANGE PEOPLE’S MDS’: REMEMBERG KEV FRET, GAY TRAPERO

Or by the creasg number of vios that celebrate gay love. Ricky Mart out as gay. Followg a lengthy perd of succs both the English and Spanish-language markets, Mart me out as gay a post on his webse 2010.

” His life was reflected his art wh 2010’s “Disparo al Corazón” mic vio, which featured a jt-married gay uple.

At the height of Mexin pop group RBD’s succs 2007, member Christian Chávez me out as gay a post on the band’s webse. 2011’s “Libertad, ” which featur his former bandmate and Rebel -star Anahí, is one of the ’s bt LGBTQ+ equaly anthems Spanish — and Chávez dulg his bt gay life the mic vio. Puerto Rin artist Kev Fret was billed as “Lat trap’s first openly gay pneer” by Paper Magaze April 2018.

PROSECUTOR SLAYG OF GAY PUERTO RIN RAPPER KEV FRET SAYS SHE WAS STCTED TO STOP VTIGATG

“[Now I see] young gay guys or young lbians that are lookg at me now like a role mol, ” he said an terview wh them. Solomon Ray giv reggaeton mic a gay perspective. Like Fret, Mexin-Amerin sger Solomon Ray is an openly gay voice músi urbana, but more on the reggaeton si of the spectm.

“We did for the culture and did for the uny to show that there n be two Mexin gay reggaetoneros on one track together supportg each other, ” Ray told Billboard. Wh a larger platform, Esteman has been more open about his gay inty on this year’s Amor Libre album.

Andwandter is as openly polil his songs and mic vios as he is openly gay. Chile legalized civil unns, Argenta repealed the ban on gay and bisexual blood donors, and Colombia led favor of full adoptn rights for same sex upl, later passg same sex marriage early 2016.

OZUNA REVEALS HE WAS EXTORTED OVER AN 'TIMATE VIO' BY MURRED GAY TRAP STAR KEV FRET

Thirty-three years sce homosexualy was removed om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, and 26 years sce the Center For Disease Control first diagnosed AIDS, we are still fightg. Dalasam raps about what he knows, beg black and gay an opprsive society, but don’t intify wh the queer rap movement.

No subject is off lims for (Me Llamo), who, through his songwrg, tells stori of homophobia, polyamory, trans folks, and sex workers wh a cheeky livery that brgs levy to the heavy subjects he sgs about. In 2015, Jsi 6 released their sophomore album The Caprirn, where lead sgle “Down Low” was an unrground club h. In 2010 when Ricky Mart me out as a gay, he marked a shift acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny among Latos the mastream media.

” In the club banger, she sps Spanish, “Long live the gays! Blue Rojo is phg Lat pop mic forward while proudly reprentg his gay inty his songs. When asked how he visualized himself durg a rad terview last April, Kev Fret — Lat trap’s most unapologetilly, and perhaps first openly gay artist — njured a hippodrome: “Once you let hors ee om their stabl, ” said Fret, “It’s difficult to tch them.

OPENLY GAY RAPPER MURRED PUERTO RI AMID WAVE OF VLENCE

Lambastg homophobia the urbano market was a recurrg missn for Fret: The Puerto Rin artist was driven by a clear visn of shatterg the reggaeton and trap molds by fyg tradnal genr rol and speakg to gay sexualy wh no rtrat. Still, homophobia reared s ugly head last fall, after Fret beme a subject a ntroversial track by Puerto Rin trapero Anuel AA.

In addn to the song’s gratuo misogyny, not to mentn mockery of Puerto Rins who lost their hom to Hurrine María, “Intoble” clud homophobic slurs and suated a sexual relatnship between Cosculluela, a rival artist, and Fret. Earlier June, however, Fret experienced what he scribed as a homophobic attack at a ndo Miami, where he was livg at the time. The YouTube channel for the urbano se Rapetón taloged the cint g posts om Fret’s Instagram: Potg to bis on his face and body, he said he was stck by someone angry that his butt was exposed while tanng by a pool — sentially, Fret claimed, he was attacked for beg gay.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

Bee of his relig upbrgg, Fret often said, for him, beg gay was a choice.

GAY PUERTO RIN RAPPER SHOT DEAD IN SAN JUAN

While the urbano dtry certaly has not set asi machismo and homophobia entirely, Fret ma a signifint nt for progrs.

Reflectg on Fret’s impact, DJ Candy Boy adms he uldn’t image a gay urbano artist beg embraced anytime but now.

Everythg opened up, the acceptance of someone gay. Earlier this year she released “Jony (La Romi)” a song and vio addrsg the uptick homophobic and transphobic rhetoric brought on by Costa Ri’s recent printial electns. Enter gay Mexin-Amerin reggaetonero Solomon Ray.