Birdman Addresses Gay Rumors

During the interview with host Ebro Darden and co-host Laura Stylez, Birdman addressed rumors about his sexuality, talks of a feud with Rick Ross and Trick Daddy, and his ongoing dispute with Lil Wayne. See highlights from the 35-minute conversation below.
ON RICK ROSS: “Me and Ross was like brothers everyday, hanging together. They one of the reasons we came to Miami, because them nias embraced us so strong when we came out here. I don’t know what his call was to even get into me and my son business. [Wayne’s] my son…That shit gonna work itself out. I have the utmost respect for Ross. We come up and I taught him a lot of game in this shit. He watched my pimpin’ and did his own thing with it being a hustler, but it threw me off.”
ON LIL WAYNE BEEF: “It’s more of a misunderstanding than a money issue. If you knew me, I always gave Wayne any and everything he ever wanted. Our train is still moving. Drake just put out an album. Nicki is in the studio. The train is still moving. I think it’s a lot of misunderstanding and me and him talk, but you best believe this situation is gonna work itself out.”
ON VIEWS : “I think Drake got the album of the year, man. In three hours, he did like 400,000, man. He’s something special. Hip-hop has to keep going. We need this.”
ON BUSINESS MISTAKES: “I came in the game real young with a lot of money. I ain’t have nobody to teach me, bro. I learned from my mistakes. I’m not perfect. I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I’ve tried to correct my mistakes as time went by.”
ON HIS TUMULTUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH ARTISTS: “I have corrected my mistakes as time went by. You can see it because I’m still doing major business. You think Drake would be putting out an album? You think Nicki would be back in the studio? We done had a lot of fall-ins and fall-outs, but that’s just the nature of our business. You’re just looking at me because I’m a street black man, but if you go into any one of these buildings, they all have the same problems.”
ON TRICK DADDY SAYING BIRDMAN IS GAY: “Come on, man. I’m a straight gangster. That nia’s been in my hood. He knows what’s happening with me. I guess nia wanna get on the radio and be funny or something but nia know what’s happening with me. Google me, man. Call anything in the 504 and ask about me. Google me, man. Watch what comes up: straight G.”
ON HIS UPBRINGING: “It’s the first time I ever really opened up about my personal life growing up. As a kid, my moms passed when I was two. My pops passed when I was young. My sister took me away to Prince George [in Canada]. I lived out there for [a few] years. I came back. I was in boys home for a few years…And once my step mother got us out the boys home, I was just a wild animal. I didn’t give a fuck about nothing, nobody, not even myself.”
ON HIS BIOPIC : “The name of it is Before Anything. [When] I signed my deal with Universal, I was maybe 19 years old turning 20 with $30 million. It was before that. It was life before that.”
ON CASH MONEY’S BIOPIC: “Also I’m doing the Cash Money story. I thought that what Dr. Dre and [ice] Cube did was some real genius shit. Big shouts to them, just keeping hip-hop alive, just doing what they do. I feel like my Cash Money story should be as bigger because I feel like we super irrelevant in music.”
ON HIS MOTHER, MS. GLADYS: “I was two when she passed…My mom passed after she had me. She got shot and she died from complications. That shit be fucking with me a lot. I decided I’ll never speak on my momma. I speak about her a lot, but I never get in-depth about nothing with my family. So with this album, I’m really in-depth with it.”
ON GUNS: “I keep a lot on me. That’s just how I live my life. I live my life with no fear for no human. I also believe in self protection.”

Barrack Obama Covers OUT100 Magazine

44th President of the United States, Barrack Obama graces the cover of OUT100 Magazine.

The President had an interview with the magazine, in which he touched on various influences on his relationship with the LGBT community as well as his administration’s accomplishments on LGBT rights.

Excerpts below:
On the first person he met that was gay :
I’m not sure who the first openly gay person I met was, but Dr. Lawrence Goldyn, one of my college professors, is a man who stands out to me. I took his class freshman year at Occidental. I was probably 18 years old — Lawrence was one of the younger professors — and we became good friends. He went out of his way to advise lesbian, gay, and transgender students at Occidental, and keep in mind, this was 1978. That took a lot of courage, a lot of confidence in who you are and what you stand for. I got to recognize Lawrence last year at our Pride Month reception at the White House, and thank him for influencing the way I think about so many of these issues.
On how his daughters react to homophobia :
To Malia and Sasha and their friends, discrimination in any form against anyone doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t dawn on them that friends who are gay or friends’ parents who are same-sex couples should be treated differently than anyone else. That’s powerful. My sense is that a lot of parents across the country aren’t going to want to sit around the dinner table and try to justify to their kids why a gay teacher or a transgender best friend isn’t quite as equal as someone else. That’s also why it’s so important to end harmful practices like conversion therapy for young people and allow them to be who they are. The next generation is spurring change not just for future generations, but for my generation, too. As president, and as a dad, that makes me proud. It makes me hopeful.
On deciding to make LGBT equality a part of his administration:
This really goes back to when I was a kid, because my mom instilled in me the strong belief that every person is of equal worth. At the same time, growing up as a black guy with a funny name, I was often reminded of exactly what it felt like to be on the outside. One of the reasons I got involved in politics was to help deliver on our promise that we’re all created equal, and that no one should be excluded from the American dream just because of who they are. That’s why, in the Senate, I supported repealing DOMA [the Defense of Marriage Act]. It’s why, when I ran for president the first time, I publicly asked for the support of the LGBT community, and promised that we could bring about real change for LGBT Americans.

Kanye West speaks on been discriminated for not being gay

In an interview with Showstudio, rapper Kanye West said he believes he's being discriminated against by the fashion industry because he's not gay as he tried to further his career in fashion. During an interview with SHOWstudio Kanye west stated: “I feel like I got discriminated in fashion for not being gay,”. ‘In music, you definitely get discriminated in music if you are gay. It takes amazing talents to break down barriers,’ West said. ‘Everyone thought that when Frank Ocean dropped that it was going to be bad for his career. I feel like it’s so cliché to speak about him as it relates to this subject, but there are people who broke the ground and he broke the ground. The people that break the stereotypes make history.’ Kanye said, ‘The first thing I thought about was a black radio show host maybe possibly making jokes because the black culture is generally homophobic,’. ‘Then it was like, “F–k what people say. F–k what people think.” I feel proud to be in a family that has so many people breaking ground for generations to come. I’m still getting acquainted to what’s politically correct [to say though].

Gay Catholic Priest Sacked

A high-ranking Polish priest Father Krzystof Charamsa has been sacked by the Vatican after he revealed that he was gay. The 43-year-old revealed that he also had a Spanish partner, in two separate interviews with an Italian newspaper and a Polish news program said: 'It's time for the Church to open its eyes about gay Catholics and to understand that the solution it proposes to them – total abstinence from a life of love – is inhuman,' he told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, saying he wanted to challenge the Church's 'paranoia'.
'I know that I will have to give up my ministry which is my whole life. 'I know that the Church will see me as someone who did not know how to fulfill his duty [to remain chaste],who is lost and who is not even with a woman but with a man!' 'I want to be an advocate for all sexual minorities and their families who have suffered in silence,' he said during the press conference. 'I dedicate my coming out to all gay priests. 'I wish them happiness even if I know that most of them will not.have the courage to make the gesture I have made today.
'To my Church, I want to say that I reject and I denounce the current atmosphere of exasperating homophobia. 'Open your eyes to the suffering of gay people, to their desire for love.''I place myself in the hands of God.'
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Kevin Hart: I Won't Play a Gay Character

American actor, comedian, writer, and producer Kevin Hart doesn't expect to play a gay character anytime soon.
During an interview with New York's Power 105.1 radio station, Kevin Hart admitted to turning down the role of Alpa Chino in 2008's Tropic Thunder because he didn't feel comfortable playing a gay role and that part was played in the film by Brandon T. Jackson. Hart explained that the draft of the script he read was different from the shooting script. "The dude, he was doing a lot of stuff in the draft that I read," Hart said. "It was real flagrant. I was like, 'I can't do this.' "Hart was then asked whether he would ever play a gay character. "I can't," he said. "Not because I have any ill will or disrespect. It's
because I don't think I'm really going to dive into that role 100 percent because of insecurities about myself trying to play that
part. Does that make sense?" Hart,made it clear that he doesn't have an issue with the gay community. "As people, I love you," he said. He added that he may change his mind
years from now on playing a gay role, once he gets more acting experience.