Gay, Explained. » Music http://www.gayexplained.com The Good News from History, Science, Religion, and Culture Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:23:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Macklemore’s Gay Marriage Anthem http://www.gayexplained.com/macklemores-gay-marriage-anthem/ http://www.gayexplained.com/macklemores-gay-marriage-anthem/#comments Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:23:58 +0000 Preston http://www.gayexplained.com/?p=1106

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis had huge hits with their songs Thrift Shop and Can’t Hold Us, and then another unexpected hit in Same Love, a song that makes the political case for gay marriage. Or as Macklemore puts it: “No freedom till we’re equal. Damn right I support it.”

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]]> Macklemore and Ryan Lewis had huge hits with their songs Thrift Shop and Can’t Hold Us, and then another unexpected hit in Same Love, a song that makes the political case for gay marriage. Or as Macklemore puts it: “No freedom till we’re equal. Damn right I support it.”

More on the success of Same Love at the NY Times, and more on homo-friendly hip hop here.

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Rap has a history of homophobia, but even there things are changing.

From B. Dolan, a sign of the times:

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From B. Dolan, a sign of the times:

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