Common Ground
Squashing the Beef Between Hip-Hop & LGBTQ
Challenge
Hip-hop is portrayed as one of the least LGBTQ-friendly genres of music, with a significant number of songs containing homophobic views and anti-gay lyrics.
Hip-hop is portrayed as one of the least LGBTQ-friendly genres of music, with a significant number of songs containing homophobic views and anti-gay lyrics.
Insight
Hip-Hop's origins stem from values shared by the LGBTQ community: liberation, self-expression, and telling stories from an oppressed perspective.
Hip-Hop's origins stem from values shared by the LGBTQ community: liberation, self-expression, and telling stories from an oppressed perspective.
Using music, how can we show that hip-hop and the LGBTQ community have more in common than they think?
