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BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND

'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood' sts an openly gay rapper, which has sparked some major backlash om the other straight male stars on the show. * gay love and hip hop cast *

) gay and qutng, and more trans artists have entered the mix recent years. Adrienne, who sists she’s straight and “only gay for Snoop.

‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ CASTS GAY RAPPER MILAN CHRISTOPHER

VH1's 'Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta' is to wele s very first gay uple to the fay. Full story below... The show follows the liv of several * gay love and hip hop cast *

An aspirg rapper himself, Bobby is the anchise’s first openly gay ma st member. We see him alg wh homophobia the hip-hop dtry as well as stgglg his relatnship wh his boyiend Jefey, who Bobby learns is cheatg on him wh his ex Malik.

Miami Tip clash wh her iend Scy Santana, an openly gay rapper, who was shot a drive-by last December which he believ was a hate crime. Well bee hip hop is known as beg herently homophobic (i do not believe that but 's a stereotype), and although there has been and still is homophobia the hip hop muny, queer rappers and hip hop heads are out here. Josele Hernanz (Bisexual/Gay, She/Her).

Zachary Jon (Gay, He/Him). Jason Lee (Gay, He/Him).

‘LOVE & HIP HOP ATLANTA’ WEL VERY FIRST GAY CAST MEMBERS

The newt member of "Love and Hip Hop Hollywood" believ he's beg shunned by st members bee they don't want to share the small screen wh an openly gay rapper. * gay love and hip hop cast *

Milan Christopher (Gay, He/Him). Misster Ray (Gay, He/Him). Bobby Lyt (Gay, He/Him).

Jefey Whe (Gay, He/Him).

'LOVE AND HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD' -- NEW CAST MEMBER ... RAPPERS WON'T SHOOT WH ME 'CSE I'M GAY

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Malik Williams (Gay, He/Him).

THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP

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Scy Santana (Gay, GNC, He/Him).

Depictns of same-sex upl and gay culture are beg more and more mon to televisn, yet documentg a relatnship between two men the historilly homophobic world of hip hop may be a Christopher and Mil Brock hope their story will help affect change a muny that’s been largely ristant to UP for the ee Indie Foc movi newsletter >>“It’s hard bee there is no prototype to follow, ” said Christopher, 29, over drks Hollywood. ”On Monday, an anticipated episo which Brock out to his ex-girliend will be followed by a special roundtable discsn regardg homophobia hip hop.

‘LOVE & HIP HOP ATLANTA’ WEL VERY FIRST GAY CAST MEMBERS

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Christopher is openly gay but Brock’s fay didn’t know about his sexualy before the show premiered (some of his fay members are no longer speakg to him, he said). Last year “Empire” broke ground by featurg a black gay character for s drama that tak place the world of hip hop. Historilly, realy seri have relegated gay men to the sikick/bt-iend role; characters who orb around straight unterparts.

Black gay men have been further siled, limed to stereotypil rol such as stylists or personal doceri, “Tha Life Atlanta, ” bucked the trend by showg myriad black gay men livg and lovg, but was only seen onle after multiple works passed on a show as groundbreakg as MTV’s “The Real World, ” rponsible for showg some of realy televisn’s earlit imag of queer life Ameri, experienced a shock a ago when a black man me out a season where had already st a gay roommate ( was the first time the show featured two gay men s st). Christopher and Brock’s prence on a high-profile platform such as VH1 uld help chip away at least some of the misogyny and homophobia herent rap culture.

'LOVE & HIP HOP' RAPPER REPORTEDLY SHUNNED BY ST BEE HE'S GAY

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Still, the ia of a gay male breakg mastream rap seems unheard of. “I want to do hardre rap, ” Christopher said, “but I’ve had iends say you shouldn’t bee you’re gay.

A and Public Enemy ma no qualms about their disda for gay men their lyrics.

'LOVE & HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD' STAR OMARN -- GAY RAPPER GOOD FOR THE SHOW (VIDEO)

By the late ‘90s, the Beastie Boys had formally apologized for homophobic lyrics s semal 1986 but, “Licensed to Ill” (which was origally supposed to be tled “Don’t Be a Faggot”). Tyler, the Creator has repeatedly argued his age of gay slurs. 50 Cent once publicly nounced gay men “but women who like women, ” he said, “that’s ol.

VH1’S LOVE & HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD RAPPER MIL "KD-OF" REGRETS COMG OUT AS GAY

And years after famoly aligng wh Elton John at the Grammys, Emem, long cricized for his e of gay slurs, snagged a rap album Grammy for a rerd that had multiple slurs on past stallments of “Love & Hip Hop, ” viewers watched female mols Eri Mena and Cyn Santana fall and out of love, and a handful of female st members intify as lbian and bisexual.

“Moments like this don’t happen often for black gay men, even scripted televisn, ” said Drew-Shane Daniels, founr and edor chief of Med magaze, a news and culture se for black gay men. “For so long black gay characters uld not stand on their own.

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