The gay former mic executive who signed Metalli spills his guts a new memoir.
Contents:
- INSIR EXPOS HOW RAPPERS ARE DGGED AND RAPED BY GAY MIC EXECUTIV AT HOLLYWOOD MANSN PARTI AND STUD SSNS
- MEET THE GAY MIC MOGUL WHO DISVERED METALLI AND WHE ZOMBIE
- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
- GAY FOR PAY RAPPERS CONSPIRACY THEORY: DJ AKAMIKS EXPOS MALE MIC EXECUTIV ARE SMASHG RAPPERS
- [WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
- CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
- OPENLY GAY THE BOARDROOM: WHY SO FEW LGBTQ EXECUTIV LEAD AMERI'S LARGT PANI
INSIR EXPOS HOW RAPPERS ARE DGGED AND RAPED BY GAY MIC EXECUTIV AT HOLLYWOOD MANSN PARTI AND STUD SSNS
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MEET THE GAY MIC MOGUL WHO DISVERED METALLI AND WHE ZOMBIE
Perhaps the most shockg revelatn om the hip-hop sir was how gay executiv will dg and rape rappers hop of turng them out. It’s crazy to thk that some of the most gangster rappers throughout history may have been possibly forced to or willgly did gay thgs behd the scen, but wh so many people scribg the same kd of stori there has to be some tth to price for fame may be much steeper than we all once JordanThrilla Staff.
“Someone wrote: ‘This looks like an unrground Tmp dner, except everyone’s gay, ’ ” relled Lus Keller, the founr and print of Milk & Honey Management, referrg to a snarky onle ment that acpanied Variety’s photo of the guts. It’s like: ‘We have Trey, he’s gay — that quota is already filled for the ssn.
“When you walk to a ssn as a gay man of lor, you’re like: ‘How am I gog to be received this suatn? “I haven’t enuntered much racism and homophobia the mic dtry, but I fely know ’s out there. “A lot of people are like, ‘Wow, this young black kid is makg untry-rap mic and is also gay is so amazg’ — pletely normaliz him.
THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
“In terms of homophobia and racism, we have a lot of work to do untry mic, ” Gregory said. It’s like: ‘You n be gay but don’t talk about , don’t put your mic and don’t exprs yourself’ — and that is somethg that needs to change. But Lil Nas X is someone who’s like: ‘Well, I’m here to blur the le between untry and hip-hop and I n be a proud homosexual black man who is gog to do all.
GAY FOR PAY RAPPERS CONSPIRACY THEORY: DJ AKAMIKS EXPOS MALE MIC EXECUTIV ARE SMASHG RAPPERS
While Lil Nas X’s subtle g out tweet didn’t have the noise of Ellen DeGener proclaimg “Yep, I’m gay! As seen the clip, Alago, who is gay, don’t shy away om discsg his sexualy the documentary. “Those young people, who you may have thought were homophobic, had to kd of put up wh me...
[WATCH] DJ AKAMIKS CLAIMS DOWN LOW GAY RAPPERS ARE SLEEPG WH MIC EXECUTIV
“They may have not met another gay person their whole life.
They would maybe leave my office wh a different perspective of what ‘gay’ meant. The pop duo then suffered a turbulent breakup, and Hay set his sights on solo stardom — only to face homophobia om mic executiv and embrace a smaller-sle reer before exg the dtry altogether 2012.
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
Now, Hay is back wh a new album about his journey tled Homosexual, which was wrten, produced and engeered entirely on his own. He faced homophobia om not only his father but bulli at school based on mere speculatn, leadg him to supprs klgs that he uld be gay for s.
"I didn't know any gay people.
While rerdg Savage Garn's first album the next year Sydney, he found himself one of the cy's queer districts, walked to a theater to secretly view a gay pornographic film and quickly felt both aroed and alarmed. After pourg his heart out to "the sassit, most hilar woman" on the other end of the ll, he rells beg told: "'Oh honey, you're gay. Followg effective upl unselg wh a relig therapist who told him to extguish homosexual urg and stay married, which ma Hay "suicidal, " Taylor enuraged him to explore his te feelgs.
CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
After seeg Lu Guadagno's Call Me By Your Name and takg the plot pots about gay romance and El's relatnship wh his father, he "left the cema floods of tears" and quickly went to the stud to wre the charmg "Let's Try Beg Love. Unrstandably, Homosexual featur trospective lyrics about tense topics om Hay' fay life, mic bs experienc and relatnships to overg suicidal thoughts and payg tribute to queer liv that've been tragilly lost. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the on who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized marg, gay terwoven muny clud Brian Epste (who brought the world the Beatl), K Lambert (who -managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Ge), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smh (who formed the visnary label Charisma for bands like Genis).
In fact, was a gay man, Larry Parn, who svengali-d Bra’s very first rockers, om Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wil. A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood. ”At the same time, the rich, powerful and fluential men faced the nsirable nsequenc of beg gay at a time when homosexual acts were still outlawed the UK.
”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle.
OPENLY GAY THE BOARDROOM: WHY SO FEW LGBTQ EXECUTIV LEAD AMERI'S LARGT PANI
”Bullock’s book don’t lve to the eper cultural and psychologil issu volved the relatnships between the gay and straight men. Still, ’s clear to any stunt of the era that the edgy liv of gay men at the time fascated the straight artists they worked wh.
They weren’t jt gay but also Jewish. ”In some ways, managers like Epste and other others uld sulate themselv om the everyday life of gay men at the time – throwg their own exclive parti and circulatg elevated circl where they uld do as they pleased. Ironilly, after the law agast homosexual acts changed Bra 1967 – crimalizg them certa circumstanc and for those of a certa age – the harassment of LGBTQ people actually tensified.
“But post-67, and wh the formatn of the Gay Liberatn Front 1970 Bra and wh gay people beg more outspoken, the raids and the psdo-polil attacks started to happen more. The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swgg Sixti is out now.