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Or the LGBTQ pay gap that suggests that gay men earn around 9% less than our straight counterparts globally.
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Or the silent epidemic, made worse because of economic inequality and a lack of resources, that means black gay men in the US face a 50-50 risk of catching HIV. There is not nearly enough attention in the mainstream media on the violence that’s inflicted about transgender people of colour, for example. I’ve had people chuck nasty homophobic language at me while walking down the street with my boyfriend.īut I can’t help shaking the feeling that all this focus on Eminem being made to apologise is kind of a distraction from the more pervasive and more insidious persecution that LGTBQ people go through all the time. The word ‘faggot’ has been used as a weapon against queer people for decades and continues to be used to attack sexual minorities. Tyler, the Creator’s feud with Eminem goes back to 2014 I’m all for holding high-profile cultural figures to account – although you could argue that Eminem isn’t exactly the most relevant artist nowadays – and I’m not criticising people who have spoken out against him. Now, while it’s good that Eminem is reflecting on his actions - although the fact that he didn’t ‘feel right’ with it, but did it nonetheless means his apology shouldn’t entirely absolve him - I reckon it’s important to not lose perspective here: the LGBTQ community has bigger fish to fry than worrying about a fading rapper. “Because in my quest to hurt him, I realise that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it… It was one of the things that I kept going back to and going ‘I don’t feel right with this.’”
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“I think the word that I called him on that song was one of the things where I felt like this might be too far,” he said in an interview with Sway. It’s not that hard to respect that, so I just hope that people do.”īut now, in a rare comedown for the 45-year-old ‘Stan’ rapper, Eminem has apologised for his comments. “I just feel like some words are not meant for everyone, or for anyone. And gay pop singer Troye Sivan added to the criticism: “I don’t think there’s ever really a reason.