It’s also harmful to the men who want to pursue relationships with transgender women but might refrain from doing so for fear of a similar reaction. Calling Tyga gay mis-genders Isabella as a man and invalidates her identity as a woman. So, Why Should You Care? With the recent wins for marriage equality and praise for Caitlyn Jenner’s public transition, the social media responses indicate that transgender women are still othered and misunderstood. The flurry of tweets about the alleged relationship use derogatory phrases like “ tranny” and “ chick with a dick” for Isabella while calling Tyga gay. Sure, cheating is worthy of disdain, but the majority of the digs at Tyga are in regard to his sexuality. Tyga’s lawyer confirmed that the nude images were indeed of his client but denied a relationship between the two, calling the rumors an attempt to "maliciously shame" him. Scott showcased an alleged three-year relationship between Tyga and Isabella-back when he was engaged to Blac Chyna and during his current relationship with Kylie Jenner. I don’t want to put the blame on labels, because that’s the layman idea that it’s always the labels fault, but really everyone’s struggle is different, and everyone’s view on gay is different.The emails, text messages, and nude pictures first posted by blogger B. “I have to be my own person, at the end of the day, because its my personal struggle.
“I have Virgin EMI, they’ve been a great label for me, but there are a lot of fights and conversations that a label aren’t gonna do for me, and the same goes for management. Speaking about whether the music industry does enough, he said: “Sometimes they don’t know what to do, and sometimes we’ve just got to do it ourselves and figure it out. “That fans of your music who are both black and LGBT, myself included, don’t understand black struggle either? I just want to be clear.”Įarlier this year, MNEK spoke to GAY TIMES about the music scene for LGBTQ artists. But do your thing.”Īmong the many people to respond to the initial controversial tweet was MNEK, who wrote: “Ok so are you saying that LGBT people are exclusively white? That there’s no such thing as intersectionality?
Live your life happily.”Īnd responding to one critical tweet, he wrote: “To me it looked like they was weaponising it against us. “I don’t hate anyone but I stand up for my culture. The culture I practise, we’re not familiar with these things that’s why I have a different view. Since receiving a backlash for the tweets, mostly from LGBTQ people of colour, the rapper tweeted out: “Okay maybe I’m wrong then. You can’t tell me they don’t try force it on us.” He added: “They try to force Ghana to include LGBT into their education when its not their culture. Live your life I don’t care but don’t force it onto me especially when you don’t wanna recognise these black struggle.”
In a series of tweets, the rapper said: “STOP FORCING LGBT ONTO US. and going out there in front of all these people, it’s terrifying. Rapper J Hus is open to “learning” after he controversially went on a Twitter rant claiming that the LGBTQ identity was being forced on people. Lil Nas X Opened Up About The Microaggressions He Experienced Before Coming Out As Gay And The Pressure He’s Faced Since The pressure of living your entire life knowing the identity of what a rapper is supposed to be. The rapper made some controversial tweets just before Christmas.