Comments on: Hip hop homos http://www.dallasvoice.com/hip-hop-homos-1020205.html Premier Dallas LGBT Website Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kris http://www.dallasvoice.com/hip-hop-homos-1020205.html/comment-page-1#comment-16570 Kris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dallasvoice.com/music/hip-hop-homos/#comment-16570 I really dislike this headline: Hip hop homos. How is our usage different from this breaking news story? N.C. politician mocks AIDS death of colleague's son http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/1129040.html?storylink=omni_popular I really dislike this headline: Hip hop homos. How is our usage different from this breaking news story?

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]]> By: Kris http://www.dallasvoice.com/hip-hop-homos-1020205.html/comment-page-1#comment-16571 Kris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dallasvoice.com/music/hip-hop-homos/#comment-16571 I really dislike this headline: Hip hop homos. How is our usage different from this breaking news story? N.C. politician mocks AIDS death of colleague's son http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/1129040.html?storylink=omni_popular I really dislike this headline: Hip hop homos. How is our usage different from this breaking news story?

N.C. politician mocks AIDS death of colleague’s son http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/1129040.html?storylink=omni_popular

]]> By: AWJ http://www.dallasvoice.com/hip-hop-homos-1020205.html/comment-page-1#comment-16572 AWJ Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dallasvoice.com/music/hip-hop-homos/#comment-16572 I think it's different just how "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is different than a redneck screaming from his truck, "Queers!" It's how it's intended. I think it’s different just how “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” is different than a redneck screaming from his truck, “Queers!” It’s how it’s intended.

]]> By: Juba Kalamka http://www.dallasvoice.com/hip-hop-homos-1020205.html/comment-page-1#comment-16576 Juba Kalamka Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dallasvoice.com/music/hip-hop-homos/#comment-16576 "Hip Hop Homos" is the title of a 2004 documentary on queer hip hop artists Deadlee and God-Des has aired on LOGO for the past several years. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406839/ "Pick Up The Mic" is another long-form documentary on the same subject that aired regularly on LOGO and screened in 50 festivals internationally. http://www.pickupthemic.com For more info on LGBT hip hop artists, the homohop scene and comment on the particular perjorative contextualization/inversion that is troubling you (by out hip hop artists themselves) please visit: http://www.gayhiphop.com (online since June 2000) and http://www.outhiphop.com ( a sister site online since late 2008) best, Juba Kalamka “Hip Hop Homos” is the title of a 2004 documentary on queer hip hop artists Deadlee and God-Des has aired on LOGO for the past several years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406839/

“Pick Up The Mic” is another long-form documentary on the same subject that aired regularly on LOGO and screened in 50 festivals internationally.

http://www.pickupthemic.com

For more info on LGBT hip hop artists, the homohop scene and comment on the particular perjorative contextualization/inversion that is troubling you (by out hip hop artists themselves) please visit:

http://www.gayhiphop.com (online since June 2000)

and

http://www.outhiphop.com
( a sister site online since late 2008)

best,

Juba Kalamka

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