Seems like Harlem rapper ASAP Rocky lands a magazine cover every week. This time its Interview magazine, and he lets it be known that he’s not in this life for homophobia in hip-hop. Designer Alexander Wang conducted the revealing interview.
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For his first feature film actor turned director and Bronx, New York native Rashaad Ernesto Green turned to family for inspiration. His result was Gun Hill Road, a brilliant contemporary story about a Puerto Rican man, fresh from doing time up North, and his struggles with the identity and the masculinity of his teenaged, transgender son living in The Bronx.
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Paint us surprised! Legendary music producer Clive Davis will reveal to talk show host and journalist Katie Couric today that he is bisexual. Davis is best known for his exemplary taste in music and for launching the careers of luminaries like Whitney Houston, Usher and your favorite artist’s favorite artist.
Ed Koch, former three term NYC mayor is dead. Koch was admitted to hospital several times in the last few weeks for various health issues including respiratory illnesses. Koch died last night after being admitted to Presbyterian-Colombia Hospital.
Gays in Africa are going through hell as you read this, but there is some good news coming out of Cameroon: two men were acquitted by an appeals court Monday after they were arrested and tried for looking gay while ordering Baileys Irish Cream in a bar.The men were originally sentenced to five years in prison.
Orlando Cruz, the Puerto Rican boxer who came out the closet last month, sat for an interview with German publication Der Spiegel, published yesterday. Since coming out, Cruz, who said he discovered he was gay at the age of 19 after competing in the 2000 Sidney Olympics, and who is also the only out gay boxer in pro sports, has received mostly positive support in the sport and beyond. Excerpt of the interview below.
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Wisconsin made history yesterday when its citizens elected its first openly gay senator in the person of Tammy Baldwin! Baldwin beat Republican Tommy Thompson by a modest margin.
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Simon Doonan, the sharp and stylish ambassador for NYC fashion powerhouse Barney’s, has some Halloween party ideas that are hurricaine proof. Doonan teamed up with vitner Ravenswood and has some sugestions to make your annual scarefest a hit. Faves below.
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Legendary NYC graffiti artist Futura 2000 said that his fear and misunderstandings of gays in the 1980s cost him a collaboration with pop artist and popular homosexual Andy Warhol.
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Puerto Rican featherweight champion Orlando Cruz has outed himself as a proud gay man, reports USA Today today. Cruz said he was proud to be Puerto Rican and proud to be gay.
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Frank Ocean, the talented singer-songwriter, Odd Future member and Jay-Z & Kane West collaborator, posted the above note on his Tumblr, confirming speculation that his first love was a man.
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A rainbow colored Oreo, created by Kraft in solidarity of gays and Gay Pride this month, is leaving a terrible taste in the mouths of homophobes.
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