"Same Love" rapper Macklemore said he is not gay, spe what Inter mors might lead people to believe.
Contents:
- IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
- MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ADDRS SEXUALY: “FE, WE'RE GAY!”
- MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER
- FUSE TV - SEATTLE RAPPER MACKLEMORE TALKS GROWG UP CATHOLIC WH GAY UNCL
- I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
- SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
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Many onle ers wonred whether Macklemore, the man behd hs such as “Thrift Shop, ” was gay after the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song “Same Love” about marriage equaly was released. ” Handler that pot, the Seattle rapper, 30, explaed that if Google Search ers type “is” or “Macklemore” to the search text box, one of the first thgs that up reads, “Is Macklemore gay. ” Therefore, he said wh his head down, “So, y, the Inter thks that I’m gay.
“We met on Myspace, ” Lewis told the talk-show Handler jokgly wonred whether anyone still ed Myspace, Macklemore threw his hands up the air and said, “All right, fe, we’re gay!
MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ADDRS SEXUALY: “FE, WE'RE GAY!”
” And she quipped, “That do sound pretty gay, ” which led the “Thrift Shop” star to bow his head once aga and say, “Y. As "Same Love" turns 10, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' llaborators revis the song's powerful impact, om lyrics that support gay marriage to a mass weddg at the 2014 GRAMMYs.
MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER
Macklemore was partially spired by his gay uncle, who is mentned the song's first verse, when wrg "Same Love.
FUSE TV - SEATTLE RAPPER MACKLEMORE TALKS GROWG UP CATHOLIC WH GAY UNCL
Her stct was right: "Same Love" was nomated for Song Of The Year at the 2014 GRAMMY Awards, where Lambert — alongsi Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Madonna and Queen Latifah — livered a powerful performance of the song that saw gay and heterosexual upl get married on live televisn.
Macklemore isn't subtle about the fact that "Same Love" is a pro-gay anthem, even clarg his own stance the song's send verse: "No eedom till we're equal/ damn right, I support .
He also the vers to ll out those who don't, cludg "right-wg nservativ" and relig groups, as well as those who e the term "gay" a rogatory sense. Acrdg to New York Tim, "Same Love" was "the first song to explicly embrace and promote gay marriage that has ma to the Top 40, " per gay rights activists and rad executiv. In a 2014 op-ed for The New Republic, wrer Brandon Ambroso said that while he enjoys the song, he felt sends the wrong msage about beg gay.
I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
"The aversn to that word [choice] our muny stems om belief that if we n't prove that our gayns is blogilly termed, then we won't have grounds to mand equaly, " said Ambroso.
SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
While some felt Macklemore's outwardly pro-gay stance seemed performative, others found that me earnt, and unlike anythg prevly on mastream rad. "Macklemore's lyrics offered an idsyncratic perspective on homophobia hip-hop and Amerin society at large, cricizg both wh a mixture of gentlens and firmns that I had not heard before, " Slate's J. "And most importantly, his support of the gay muny felt scere.