Frank Ocean Opens Up About His Sexuality

[Hotlantan]

I'm aware of all that. What I'm saying is Luther arguably used the song as a signal of his sexuality, by maintaining the original gender of the guitarist as male -- instead of female (unlike Al B Sure's version) -- knowing what the public perception of his choice could be. And, to no one's surprise, the general reaction to Luther's cover was...

. Closeted artists are very rarely as frank as Frank. Pardon the pun.

Or perhaps Al B Sure assumed that people - like you - would call him gay if he sang the song as it was written. Dozens of male artists have recorded the song and not everyone was afraid of phobic "fans":

 

[WhenTheGoingGetsTtuff]

There most certainly is. Not all gays are involved in it but it definitely exists.

@ (no Frank Ocean)

There most certainly is not.

 

[goonie]

I refuse to believe there is such thing as been bisexual. If you love women and everything about them wtf would make you crave for a dude. Same goes for women claiming to be bi. These bitches are just curious cuz two bitches fucking has become cool now. Any dude that fucks with another dude, no matter the circumstance is a fag period, even niggas in jail.

 

[RoadRage]

This shit is beyond dope.​

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

man if you are knowingly in contact with other dicks you are a fag, there are no ways around it..

if you havent made up your mind your a fag....

and being a fag is a psycho-sexual imbalance...

male phallus inserted into a female orfice anything else is unadulturated faggotry...

balance your mind balance your life!!!

 

[Ming Fei Hong]

Or perhaps Al B Sure assumed that people - like you - would call him gay if he sang the song as it was written. Dozens of male artists have recorded the song and not everyone was afraid of phobic "fans":

Or perhaps you can eat a bag o' dicks, dumb nigga. Did I not say that I knew the background of the song? My point -- that clearly went over your head -- was public perception of the performance in correlation with the artist, not just the song itself. I'm well aware of how many times the song has been covered and by whom. That had nothing to do with the context of my reply. Which was Luther could "ARGUABLY" have used the song as a signal of his sexuality, knowing the way it could be perceived by a public that already thought he was gay. Nowhere in any of that did I say the song or Luther were gay. Fuck outta here, b.

 

[Hotlantan]

or perhaps you can eat a bag o' dicks.

 

[Ming Fei Hong]

Here we go with teh smileys and Googling pics, again. This nigga, here.

 

[exiledking]

I refuse to believe there is such thing as been bisexual. If you love women and everything about them wtf would make you crave for a dude. Same goes for women claiming to be bi. These bitches are just curious cuz two bitches fucking has become cool now. Any dude that fucks with another dude, no matter the circumstance is a fag period, even niggas in jail.

you think reality cares what you believe?

 

[duppy_maka]

dude should have stayed in the closet. His music will never be judged on its merit now.

him being the first openly gay r&b singer will always cloud people's judgement of his music.

like I said before, dude is done in urban radio.

make no mistake about it, Frank Ocean is a stone cold faggot.
for him to come out now, After all the success of "Church for the wild" and the release of his debut album, shows that dude just couldn't live the lie anymore.

It was killing him inside keeping his sexuality a secret.

I have no problems with queers, but I can't listen to their music. Sorry. I can't do it.

 

[stickyfingerz]

http://hypetrak.com/2012/07/frank-ocean-opens-up-about-his-sexuality/

Earlier this week, rumors emerged that some lyrics on Frank Ocean's upcoming Channel Orange indicate his bisexuality. While no lyrics have been cited, it appeared to be likely that this whole affair has been created by the creative imagination of the digital sphere. However, Frank took things to his Tumblr to comment on this subject matter and published a screenshot of a text document written on a computer. The document is titled "thank you's," and was written in December of 2011 while Frank was on a plane from New Orleans to Los Angeles.

Written in an open letter style, the note recounts his story of meeting a guy a few years ago and falling in love with him, labelling him his as his "first love." While the outcome of this coming out has yet to be seen, it is a sincere display of honesty that has to be respected and shall be applauded. It is 2012 after all. Read below.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW MANY OF HIS BABIES DID YOU SWALLOW???? HOW LONG YOU BEEN A FAGGOT WITH THIS FAGGOT.... YOU FAGGOT!!!!!!!

PUT THIS SHIT IN THE HOMO SECTION!!!!!!!!!!ASAP!

 

[yoda]

I respect your opinion, but I wouldn't compare being gay to being a pedophile.

I don't want to hear R.Kelly sing to 12 year olds either, but I do enjoy some of Boy George and George Micheal's music. Same goes for Elton John. I'm pretty sure Luther was a homo, too, doesn't stop me from banging his shit.




For the record, I'm not a Frank Ocean fan by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just saying his sexual orientation doesn't matter to me.

You know how I know you're gay?

 

[Cock Head Jones]

like 10 years ago my homie told me theres more gay mf's in the music biz than straight... and theres higher amounts of faggotry the higher up the food chain u go.

ever since then, none of this shit surprises me.

 

[mangobob79]

dude should have stayed in the closet. His music will never be judged on its merit now.

him being the first openly gay r&b singer will always cloud people's judgement of his music.

like I said before, dude is done in urban radio.

make no mistake about it, Frank Ocean is a stone cold faggot.
for him to come out now, After all the success of "Church for the wild" and the release of his debut album, shows that dude just couldn't live the lie anymore.

It was killing him inside keeping his sexuality a secret.

I have no problems with queers, but I can't listen to their music. Sorry. I can't do it.

thats what im sayin now, everytime he releases a new song, people wont even just sit back and relax and listen!! , the first thing they gonna wanna do is skim the lyrix to see what portion they can attribute to gayness or whatever they want to see, its gonna be constantly the runnin theme in his career going forward , I JUST DONT GET IT, I REALLY LIKE THE BROTHERS MUSIC, ITS ACTUALLY MADE ME FEEL SAD FOR HIM!! (STR8 UP NO LIE..HE HAD SO MUCH PROMISE IN MY OPINION! I HAVENT BEEN THAT IMPRESSED WITH ANY R&B ARTIST WRITING, ESPECIALLY LYRICALLY FOR A SECOND ,SO I REALLY TOOK TO HIS MUSIC.!!REAL TALK!!
IT WASNT LIKE HE WAS SUSPECT OR ON PEOPLE'S RADAR SO HE FELT PRESSURED TO RELEASE THAT STATEMENT....SHIT JUST DONT MAKE SENSE.!! .WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE STATEMENT REALLY,? MANY GAY /BI SINGERS JUST DO THEM AND LET THE MUSIC SPEAK AND THEY SURVIVED IT UNTIL THEY FELT THE PRESSURE TO COME OUT ..BUT HE WASNT UNDER ANY PRESSURE , HE WASNT ON ANYBODYS GAYDAR AND HE WASNT IN THE RUMOR MILL, SO WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN RELEASE THE STATEMENT ? , WHY CLEARLY WRITE A LOVE SONG ABOUT ANOTHER DUDE WHEN AS A SONGWRITER U COULD MASK IT WITH AMIBIGOUS LYRIX AND STILL DO U AND KEEP IT MOVING? SHIT IS JUST STOOPID , I BLAME HIS HANDLERS.. LETS GIVE IT 2YRS FROM NOW ALL THESE PEOPLE BIGGIN HIM UP AND SHIT ARE ALL GONNA BE GHOST WHEN HE STARTS FEELIN IT AND NOBODY THERE FOR HIM//ALL THE RUSSELLS AND GAY ACTIVISTS R ALL GONNA ABANDON HIM AS SOON AS THEY ARE DONE USING HIM FOR THEIR OWN GAINS..SMDH

 

[Cock Head Jones]

^

what world are yall living in where u think this will hurt or negatively impact his fanbase or success.

he is prolly on a rocketship to superstardom with this bs.

 

[mangobob79]

^

what world are yall living in where u think this will hurt or negatively impact his fanbase or success.

he is prolly on a rocketship to superstardom with this bs.

I will like to hope so bro, I wish him well but maybe cos I really took to his music im just on the fence with the controversy and distraction it could create. I don't know of any rnb singer who has come out !! It's always implied never verified !! That creates gossip and talk and that's controversy enuff to keep his name afloat but to come out and verify it like that ? IDK man!! I for one will skip the "Forrest gump" and "Pink Matter" songs , I just can't internalize a love song to another dude when its that blatant lyrically no matter how dope it is!! , I'll cop the record but yes there's gonna be a few skips !!! Lol!!

 

[Cock Head Jones]

I will like to hope so bro, I wish him well but maybe cos I really took to his music im just on the fence with the controversy and distraction it could create. I don't know of any rnb singer who has come out !! It's always implied never verified !! That creates gossip and talk and that's controversy enuff to keep his name afloat but to come out and verify it like that ? IDK man!! I for one will skip the "Forrest gump" and "Pink Matter" songs , I just can't internalize a love song to another dude when its that blatant lyrically no matter how dope it is!! , I'll cop the record but yes there's gonna be a few skips !!! Lol!!

Remember that I used the phrase "rocketship to superstardom". dude is about to blow up.

I will revisit this thread in a 6 months to a year if hnic can keep this raggedy board up.

Frank Ocean receives overwhelming support from music industry after revealing same-sex love
Def Jam founder Russell Simmons wrote that he’s moved by the R&B singer's 'courage and honesty'

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...same-sex-love-article-1.1109051#ixzz1zruOGvdq

 

[mangobob79]

Remember that I used the phrase "rocketship to superstardom". dude is about to blow up.

I will revisit this thread in a 6 months to a year if hnic can keep this raggedy board up.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...same-sex-love-article-1.1109051#ixzz1zruOGvdq

HNIC WONT LIKE DAT!!

but really his full page on daily news is news for now! its whats in the press so theyll grant him that itll sell papers right now but lets wait and see!

 

[Cock Head Jones]

HNIC WONT LIKE DAT!!

but really his full page on daily news is news for now! its whats in the press so theyll grant him that itll sell papers right now but lets wait and see!

fam are u oblivious to the gay agenda being pushed in this country?

gay marriage, gay movie and tv characters, gay celebs coming out...

so it should be a no brainer that a talented young black man thats basically stepping up saying he's willing to carry the torch from here is going to be embraced by the music industry, by the gay rights groups, by lesbians gays and closet homos worldwide. this nigga just became a hero to millions of people.

 

[ScottyPiffen745]

this was b4 the whole hoopla! reserve ur final judgement till next year coachella when its gonna be a whole field of gay & bi dudes waving flags and actin up then that'll be the story of the day, it wont be his music! watch !

!REMEMBER ELTON,GEORGE MICHAEL,FREDDIE JACKSON, LUTHER , TEVIN UNTIL HE GOT OUTTED! SOEM WOULD SAY PRINCE & MAXWELL TOO..THEY NEVER OVERTLY WROTE SONGS WITH A DEFINITE IDENTIFIABLE MALE LOVE INTEREST ! IT WAS ALWAYS LEFT TO TRANSLATION! BE WHATEVER U WANNA BE BUT REMEMBER THE GAME IS TO BE SOLD NOT TOLD..

This ain't the 90's. Not everybody cares about that shit. Gay people are more accepted and embraced than ever right now.

Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj got tons of gay fans and they embrace them all the time, and in turn, they are two of the biggest music artists right now.

Gay people buy records so its not like he's going to fall off. He's just going to lose some homophobic fans, most of them probably don't buy his records or see his shows anyway. Shit, his new gay fanbase will probably make up for that loss.

 

[tuckdog]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Keep it real fellas. Do you know one straight man, just one, who would start a sentence like this?

 

[mangobob79]

fam are u oblivious to the gay agenda being pushed in this country?

gay marriage, gay movie and tv characters, gay celebs coming out...

so it should be a no brainer that a talented young black man thats basically stepping up saying he's willing to carry the torch from here is going to be embraced by the music industry, by the gay rights groups, by lesbians gays and closet homos worldwide. this nigga just became a hero to millions of people.

Maybe I'm in my own spaceship , i wish him well ( not goin lie I was rootin heavy 4 him b4 his comin out , now I'm
Just a bit more reserved in my admiration for his talent becos now I'd have to atleast be made to listen to his full record of songs b4 I press skip on the ones that don't align with my orientation !!!!LOL!!!, cos I really like the brothers music but yeah I guess there's this gay agenda thingy, the whole thing just seems a bit weird!! I don't know what to think, days it does seem like there is an agenda and IDK how to feel about the authenticity of that claim but yeah there are days it does seem like it!!

 

[alexw]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW MANY OF HIS BABIES DID YOU SWALLOW???? HOW LONG YOU BEEN A FAGGOT WITH THIS FAGGOT.... YOU FAGGOT!!!!!!!

PUT THIS SHIT IN THE HOMO SECTION!!!!!!!!!!ASAP!

what kind of straight man asks another man this homo ass question?

youre trying to clown but come off as a fruity fucking pebble, rickspanish, type homo

 

[Rick Ronson]

After spending time alone with Kanye.

You know he had to do some kind of homosexual acts.

They turn a lot of these niggas out.

Niggas be pill popping and draws dropping.: smh:

 

[gtg305h]

That nigga got a new song out called, "Forrest Gump", off his upcoming Channel Orange album, where the hook seems mad suspect...(something like, "i wanna see you BOY, run BOY run!) I will skip this song or just delete it after I download the album...

 

[D-TOWN REP]

as people have stated its not the fact dude is gay, like yall said luther was gay but he wasn't singing about no niggas on his tracks

aint nobody trying to hear a male R&B singer talking about 'he" "him" and shit all in his songs

nah man

 

[mangobob79]

as people have stated its not the fact dude is gay, like yall said luther was gay but he wasn't singing about no niggas on his tracks

aint nobody trying to hear a male R&B singer talking about 'he" "him" and shit all in his songs

nah man

^^^ This is what I'm saying, make sex-neutral lyrics if U can and be all ambiguous with ur shit and it'll fly , secondly HE WAS NEVER SUSPECT HE WASN'T ON ANY GAYDAR RUMORMILL THAT HE FELT PRESSURED TO COME OUT!!' SO WHAT WAS THE MOTIVATION? E COULD HAVE WRITTEN & SUNG HID SONGS "FORREST GUMP & PINK MATTER" in a sex neural ambiguous lyric and it'll all be water under the bridge BUT HE DECIDES TO SING A LOVE SONG TO A DUDE AND MAKE IT CLEARLY LITERAL!! Neyo was mad suspect and on everyone's GAYDAR even with questionable photos and he had songs meant to be sung by females and never came out even tho he could have . It wasn't necessary that's what I'm saying , he wasnt under and duress ,!! & the Timin is mad suspect!! That's why it kinda weird !!

 

[LeftyLuchini]

Frank born and raised in New Orleans.


New Orleans has probably the third largest gay black male population after ATL and DC, maybe 4th if you include NYC. Shit is blatant but people don't believe. Even the straight women call their "straight" boyfriends "trade".

Ask one of them...

That's funny, I was about to post that.
N.O. is different tho, bcuz bisexuality is damn near accepted there.
Bitches are having babies with known homos.
Probably the biggest club music scene in the city is called Sissy Bounce.
And the Heshe thing is out of control.
11-12 year old boys are going transgender.
I think ppl back home were going to expose him, and to keep it from happening he exposed himself first.
Sorry to his male fans, but he already said the color orange reminds him of the summers he fell in love with the dude. Hence the title of his album Channel Orange.

 

[LeftyLuchini]

thats what im sayin now, everytime he releases a new song, people wont even just sit back and relax and listen!! , the first thing they gonna wanna do is skim the lyrix to see what portion they can attribute to gayness or whatever they want to see, its gonna be constantly the runnin theme in his career going forward , I JUST DONT GET IT, I REALLY LIKE THE BROTHERS MUSIC, ITS ACTUALLY MADE ME FEEL SAD FOR HIM!! (STR8 UP NO LIE..HE HAD SO MUCH PROMISE IN MY OPINION! I HAVENT BEEN THAT IMPRESSED WITH ANY R&B ARTIST WRITING, ESPECIALLY LYRICALLY FOR A SECOND ,SO I REALLY TOOK TO HIS MUSIC.!!REAL TALK!!
IT WASNT LIKE HE WAS SUSPECT OR ON PEOPLE'S RADAR SO HE FELT PRESSURED TO RELEASE THAT STATEMENT....SHIT JUST DONT MAKE SENSE.!! .WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE STATEMENT REALLY,? MANY GAY /BI SINGERS JUST DO THEM AND LET THE MUSIC SPEAK AND THEY SURVIVED IT UNTIL THEY FELT THE PRESSURE TO COME OUT ..BUT HE WASNT UNDER ANY PRESSURE , HE WASNT ON ANYBODYS GAYDAR AND HE WASNT IN THE RUMOR MILL, SO WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN RELEASE THE STATEMENT ? , WHY CLEARLY WRITE A LOVE SONG ABOUT ANOTHER DUDE WHEN AS A SONGWRITER U COULD MASK IT WITH AMIBIGOUS LYRIX AND STILL DO U AND KEEP IT MOVING? SHIT IS JUST STOOPID , I BLAME HIS HANDLERS.. LETS GIVE IT 2YRS FROM NOW ALL THESE PEOPLE BIGGIN HIM UP AND SHIT ARE ALL GONNA BE GHOST WHEN HE STARTS FEELIN IT AND NOBODY THERE FOR HIM//ALL THE RUSSELLS AND GAY ACTIVISTS R ALL GONNA ABANDON HIM AS SOON AS THEY ARE DONE USING HIM FOR THEIR OWN GAINS..SMDH

Dude will be just fine.
Remember, he's a songwriter first. If he album flops (which it won't), he can always lay in the cut, write for other artists, and make more dough then he ever would as a singer.
And the whole gay agenda thing is bullshit.
If we gonna complain about that, we might as well point out the 'black agenda' they had in the 70s and 80s, and the 'Latin agenda' they got going on right now.
If he's gay, good for him.
If he sings songs about same sex love, good for him.
It'll never be ass offensive then the misogynist poison my daughter is subjected to listen to playing on our radio stations everyday.

And fuck urban radio.
His music was too intelligent for it way before he came out.

 

[NewyorkRealTalk]

Originally Posted by Lucky7s<br />
Frank born and raised in New Orleans. New Orleans has probably the third largest gay black male population after ATL and DC, maybe 4th if you include NYC. Shit is blatant but people don't believe. Even the straight women call their "straight" boyfriends "trade". Ask one of them...

That's funny, I was about to post that.N.O. is different tho, bcuz bisexuality is damn near accepted there.Bitches are having babies with known homos. Probably the biggest club music scene in the city is called Sissy Bounce. And the Heshe thing is out of control.11-12 year old boys are going transgender.I think ppl back home were going to expose him, and to keep it from happening he exposed himself first.Sorry to his male fans, but he already said the color orange reminds him of the summers he fell in love with the dude. Hence the title of his album Channel Orange.

Oh nah, skipping that then. Can't get down with that....



ReZound.

 

[Cock Head Jones]

Dude will be just fine.
Remember, he's a songwriter first. If he album flops (which it won't), he can always lay in the cut, write for other artists, and make more dough then he ever would as a singer.
And the whole gay agenda thing is bullshit.
If we gonna complain about that, we might as well point out the 'black agenda' they had in the 70s and 80s, and the 'Latin agenda' they got going on right now.
If he's gay, good for him.
If he sings songs about same sex love, good for him.
It'll never be ass offensive then the misogynist poison my daughter is subjected to listen to playing on our radio stations everyday.

And fuck urban radio.
His music was too intelligent for it way before he came out.

ur making no sense w/ the part in red.

so the media and mega corporations were pushing a black agenda in the 70's.. similar to how they are pushing to make homosexuality mainstream right now?

tell me more about this please. which corporations were pushing this black agenda.

 

[hussla's paradice]

Keep it real fellas. Do you know one straight man, just one, who would start a sentence like this?

what kind of straight man asks another man this homo ass question?

youre trying to clown but come off as a fruity fucking pebble, rickspanish, type homo

 

[hussla's paradice]

That's funny, I was about to post that.
N.O. is different tho, bcuz bisexuality is damn near accepted there.
Bitches are having babies with known homos.
Probably the biggest club music scene in the city is called Sissy Bounce.
And the Heshe thing is out of control.
11-12 year old boys are going transgender.
I think ppl back home were going to expose him, and to keep it from happening he exposed himself first.
Sorry to his male fans, but he already said the color orange reminds him of the summers he fell in love with the dude. Hence the title of his album Channel Orange.

Dude will be just fine.
Remember, he's a songwriter first. If he album flops (which it won't), he can always lay in the cut, write for other artists, and make more dough then he ever would as a singer.
And the whole gay agenda thing is bullshit.
If we gonna complain about that, we might as well point out the 'black agenda' they had in the 70s and 80s, and the 'Latin agenda' they got going on right now.
If he's gay, good for him.
If he sings songs about same sex love, good for him.
It'll never be ass offensive then the misogynist poison my daughter is subjected to listen to playing on our radio stations everyday.

And fuck urban radio.
His music was too intelligent for it way before he came out.

interesting

 

[ugk]

ne-yo is the next one to come out

 

[LeftyLuchini]

You shouldn't be involved in Hip Hop if you're a faggy. Sorry but a line has to be drawn. I don't give a fuck how talented you are.

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Well then u need to stop listening to hip hop period.
Cuz here's ALOT of homo rappers out there, and have been since hip hop started.