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Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Takes A Small Step Forward for Black Gay Men
More than 3.6 million viewers tuned in to VH1’s season two premiere of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood earlier this month. A reality show focused on the Hollywood hip-hop music scene, the series has in the past followed former successful R&B artists, video vixens, actors, and girlfriends of dwindling rappers through the glitz, glamour, and delusion of their wild world. This new season of Love and Hip Hop delivers more of the identical, featuring returning stars favor R&B songstress Teairra Mari, rapper Soulja Boy, former B2K heartthrobs Fizz and Omarion, and fan favorites Moniece and Hazel-E. But like any ensemble life show, Love & Hip Hop has its impartial share of several newbies vying for a detect in the opening credits each season, including, this time, rapper Miles (Siir Brock) and producer Milan—two folks who happen to be in a bond and also happen to be men.
This is no small thing for the largely straight demonstrate . Before Miles and Milan, the New York version of the franchise featured a lesbian couple, Erica Mena and her then-girlfriend Cyn Santana, but this is the first second a gay male couple has been
Black reality TV has a bad rap. Known for being messy, with tons of fighting, drink and wig-throwing, its characters certainly made their way into mainstream culture by way of GIFs, memes and spin-off shows.
VH1’s Love & Hip Hop series, produced by Mona Scott-Young, is known for all of the above (and it’s where Cardi B rose to fame). The reveal, which started in 2011, is about new, emerging and established rappers, singers and songwriters trying to find love, build connections and make it as artists in their town (there are three to 10 seasons for Miami, Atlanta, Hollywood and Fresh York). But their journeys aren’t without a whole lot of drama: Connection drama, music industry drama, friendship drama and baby-mama-and-daddy drama.
There’s much to speak about how these representations of Black culture contribute to the legacy of stereotypes against Black people; after all, digital blackface—the use of reaction GIFs and memes by non-Black people of Black people’s overexaggerated expressions—is rife in our daily communications. But I don’t think Love & Hip Hop has been given enough credit in the ways it resists these stere
Milan Christopher made history when he unified “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood” for its second season, which premiered in September. The rapper and producer from Chicago is the first openly homosexual man in the “Love & Hip Hop” franchise.
The Hollywood iteration features eight main cast members, including Ray J, Brandy’s little brother and sex-tape boyfriend with Kim Kardashian; Omarion from the early-aughts boy-band B2K; and Soulja Male child. It airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on VH1.
Christopher’s association with fellow season-two castmate Miles “Siir Brock” Brock deposit a gay couple front and center in the hip-hop world. Although the show stressed the relationship, and the couple has since separated, Christopher credits “Love & Hip Hop” with opening doors in his music career. His debut EP, tentatively titled “Final Fantasy,” will drop in January.
Christopher visited PGN’s office this month to talk truths TV, music and being labeled “the gay rapper.”
PGN: Was filming a existence show the trial you expected?
MC: When I was shooting it, it was cool. But right now, based on how things own turned in my relationship, it’s not what I consideration it was going to be. I thought I was going to be m
‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’ Welcomes Very First Gay Cast Members
VH1’s ‘Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’ is to welcome its very first gay couple to the family.
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The show follows the lives of several characters with personal and professional ties to Hip-Hop and has featured stories fronted by lesbian and double attraction women in the past.
Next season, its producers are to introduce a same-sex attracted couple who will serve as the very first lesbian men to celestial body in the southern series since its inception.
Production kicked off last week and saw Prince Carter and Zachary Jones introduced to some members of cast as friends of Karlie Redd.
They told ‘The Blast.’
As an African American queer male couple it’s tough as hell in today’s culture and there are sooooooooooo many stigmas we’re up against. We are two big personalities who just happens to love each other dearly. With this platform we desire to show that love has no face or hue. But love is all about treating others with respect. Allowing people to just live their best lives.
A due date for the show’s next cycle is yet to be announced.
Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta just got more representation.
According to The Blast, the Georgia based reality display is incorporating it’s first gay male couple into the regular cast line up.
The couple in scrutinize are Prince Carter and Zachary Jones. Carter is a major socialite in Atlanta and Jones is a working model for the Fashion Nova brand.
Speaking to The Blast, the two men spoke about their love of Atlanta and the opportunities available there for black, gay men.
“Life as black men is extremely challenging in America today,” the couple said. “To add the synonyms ‘gay’ presents additional challenges.”
“Atlanta is the new Hollywood,” they continued. “There is so much opportunity here. This city embraces everyone, black, white, gay, or straight.”
The two then noted how having a vacuum like Atlanta is crucial as it’s still unyielding to be black and gay in America.
“It’s very unfortunate that we must continue to fight for our place in this world,” they said. “We are fighting just to be seen as genuine human beings. It’s a really sad thing.”
“Sure, many people