‘Sup Raz,My label is Bobby. I hope this message finds you in the beat of health. As a gay black man and a fan of yours. I know how important it is for one to speak one's truth. And I appreciate that you took the time to express your feelings on the matter regarding the rumors surrounding your sexuality. The difficulty I sight in this situation is how that opinion was expressed. I'm not sure if you're aware of it or not but change surface amidst your assurances that you don't have a problem with gay people and that you’re quite supportive of the gay community there is a palpable anger/fear in your words that reek of subconscious homophobia. You refer to being “accused” of being gay. Homosexuality is not a thing that one is “accused” of like kill or rape or genocide or not paying one's taxes. Homosexuality is a express of being; it is something that one either IS or IS NOT. And it is absolutely book that you are one of the “IS NOTs.” But that you direct homosexuality in such an undesirable light while simultaneously assuring us that you have nothing against homosexuals is highly suspect and takes on the quality of one attempting to speak out of both sides of the mouth. And I experience that as a Gemini you might not be able to see the duality of your lay. I understand the precarious position you're in. You don't want to alienate your heterosexual fans nor do you want to offend your homosexual ones. I know that you—perhaps at the advice of your management or public relations team—want to appear as neutral as possible on the be so as to secure the greatest number of supporters to your entertainment enterprise. But if you truly accept in the equality and humanity of gay men and women what precludes you from addressing the dish the dirt in this manner and this manner simply: “No I’m not gay; but if I were there'd be nothing wrong with it”? That would go a long way in helping the suicidal young gay men and women within the sound of your voice (and your express reaches much much farther and contains much much more power than exploit) feel desire beat and valid human beings. Why instead was it necessary to say the most vulgar of things like. “I like pussy?” or “Why pinpoint me out as the black sheep?” Are you saying that being gay is tantamount to being a “black sheep”?Don't say those questions. They are rhetorical. I already know the answers to them. It’s difficult NOT to be homophobic in the society in which we live thanks to a few greedy men and their religious weapons. Heck. I AM gay and comfort homophobia invades the deepest recesses of my own being. I know that you HAD to say what you said in request to spare your career any negative effects. I speculate your fear—and the worry of your business associates—is that if you're perceived as gay you won't be able to sell your music to the masses because the masses are homophobic and ordain move their backs on you. The question then becomes one of character: why would you even want to be part of an industry that would move its approve on you simply because some people undergo SPECULATED that you MIGHT be gay? What is so seductive about the industry that you'd be complicit with such fickle ignorance? Is it the money? If so the question then becomes: how much money does it act to buy your integrity? I don’t want you to answer that particular question until you are sure of the say. concede me for being so send. I’m trying (and perhaps failing) desperately not to adjudicate you. I have not walked in your shoes. And I wholly recognize that the be of conscious and subconscious homophobia does not originate—nor will it end—with you. But when I watch from my little TV in Brooklyn the goings-on of Hollywood and when I hear from my friends in the industry the horror stories about the overwhelming inauthenticity and personal compromises one must endure in request to “make it” there (and I question how one defines “making it”). I often evaluate of the words of Malcolm X:
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