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Here is an interview that questions whether there is gay artists in the music industry and more specifically the 'rap game' as the interviewed calls it. But can be considered as controversial is that he states that there is a 'gay mafia' and that they are controlling the hip hop scene. For instance he refers to Lady Gaga and how she is running with the gay community and she is winning!

This YouTube video ties into the discussion about discrimination and post-racial america. By watching this video it gives an amazing insight from the point of view of the youth and how gay marriage is perceived today. It would have been great to find a similar interview with children of the same age from 30 years ago and compare the opinions, just to see how perspectives have changed over the past decades. But what i found most intriguing is that some of the kids reactions where of confusion but when they were asked why they thought gay marriage was weird or 'crazy' they didn't actually know why. Is this because they don't understand what is going on, or is it because they actually think it weird? 

In the media, in the songs we're listening to, and in our everyday lives, there seems to be a war between Gays and Christians. It's whether you're on one side or the other. In the songs that we are to listen to for Thursday's class, there's an underlying topic about how all Christians are against Gay rights and they want to prosecute them. This article talks about Christians who are actually for Gay rights! Check it out!

Music Video showing more Campy view of coming out of the closet and how gay men might even 'change/switch' straight men.

I thought this short article was interesting after reading about the "homo-hop" genre. It was helpful for me to hear the perspective of a gay rapper echoing Gebreamlak's assertion about Macklemore neglecting to address his white, straight privilege. I also thought it was interesting that Le1f bashes Macklemore for "ripping from" one of his songs. This brings to light the issues of authenticity and copying from other artists, which we discussed in regards to Lady Gaga.

This clip is from the TV show Happy Endings.  It has six friends who hang out together, and they are all at a wedding.  Max, the guy who is singing the Madonna song, is gay, and is part of a Madonna band called "Mandonna."  I know we talked about Lady Gaga and Madonna, and I just thought this is a funny parody of Madonna.

Interesting tumblr postings.  It seems that the author of this certain tumblr doesn't support Lady Gaga and other divas.  An interesting viewpoint, especially from Jennex's article.  

I read about this too while writing my position paper! I totally agree how it's kind of the total opposite of what Jennex said in his article!

I think this tumblr is brilliant - why should all gays be categorised into liking Gaga, like they advertise; they can see through the marketing machine,and they do not want to just settle for being a target market for artists to try and conquer as if the LGBT community is something that needs to be won!

Music video from the first openly gay country singer

In light of the Sia incident, I here is Elton John, who identifies as gay, performing with Eminem at the Grammys. 

This is an image, since I couldn't find a video of this, but I think it works anyways.  When we were talking in class about how Same Love portrays gay people in the wrong light, it made me think of this scene in Modern Family.

I thought I would post this version as we were discussing it today in class. We were saying how this version is more emotional because it is about an individuals story unlike Macklemores's version 'Same Love' which generalizes to everyone in the gay and lesbian community.

This video is from Key and Peele's show. I think this video can be relevant to Thursday's class, when we talked about Macklemore and his song, Same Love.  It's obviously supposed to be funny, but just the fact that Key and Peele are both black makes for an interesting twist.