Is frank ocean gay.

Is Frank Ocean Gay?

In Frank Ocean's declaration regarding the death of Prince in 2016, we can start to notice that this is an artist who has wracked his brains around the complexities of living an LGBTQ+ existence. About Prince, he says, "He made me feel more cozy with how I identify sexually simply by his exhibit of freedom from and irreverence for obviously archaic ideas like gender conformity."

In 2011, he posted a beautiful declaration (that can be read below) on Tumblr that was considered to be his coming out to the world. In it, he describes his first care for at 19, and how real it felt in comparison to the girls he had cared for in previous relationships. He lets us in to a world of silent romance and the heart-wrenching shattering of a adoration that couldn't be expressed just yet. It all comes through in his song "Thinking About You" which you can beat play on below.

There is no denying that Frank Ocean is part of the LGBTQ+ people. but of what use is this information? Can we use it to learn, to expand, to challenge our own limiting conviction systems? If yes, then let's shout it from the rooftops. Let's embrace the intricacies o

"FrankOceansay he gay...."

That is what I heard a team of teenagers tell the other morning, here on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, when it came out that Frank Ocean had revealed a past love affair with a bloke. There was no judgment in that remark, no homosexual bashing, not even the slightest hint of hatred or disgust hovering about them. It just is.

For the uninformed, Frank Ocean is an American singer and songwriter, one who fled his native New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina tragedy of 2005, at the age of 18. Now only 24, Ocean has built an impressive and prolific résumé, writing or ghostwriting songs for the likes of Justin Bieber, John Legend, and Beyoncé. Ocean's voice is also prominently featured on the 2011 Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration album Watch the Throne, and he also happens to belong to a wildly talented but also wildly controversial alternative hip-hop collective called Odd Future Wolf Gang Destroy Them All, often abbreviated to OFWGKTA, or simply shortened to Odd Future.

They're controversial because of lyrical content that not only uses the pos "nigga" relentlessly and unapologetically but dives brain first into sexism, violence, and, yes, homophobi

Should we care whether Frank Ocean is gay or bisexual? The short react is no. Recently this week Anderson Cooper and Megan Rapino, a soccer player on the U.S. women's national soccer team came out of the closet but it wasn't a big shock to anyone who followed their personal lives. The admission was more of a confirmation of what everyone knew or thought they knew about them. Preliminary Wednesday morning, Ocean posted a message on his Tumblr and in the message, which would've been the Thank You's section for his upcoming album, he admits that his first love was a man. The admission comes within a few days of a U.K. radio host questioning his sexuality after listening and examining Channel Orange. Apparently in a few songs from the new album he uses "him" instead of "her" and it's not from a woman's perspective either, a la J. Cole on "Lost Ones", it's from his prospective.

When it comes to Frank Ocean, were there signs that he was gay/bisexual? He has a limited odd lyrics about his sexuality on the path "Oldie" that might contain given us a hint. I wouldn't have consideration so before today's admission but I don't obsess over such things favor certain people do. I just enjoyed his voice an

The Repercussions of Frank Ocean’s Coming Out

Frank Ocean, one of hiphop and R&B’s biggest breakout successes of the year, came out as gay – not on national television, but in a shyly poetic, sideways post on his Tumblr. ‘Four summers ago, I met somebody,’ Ocean wrote. ‘I was 19 years old. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Everyday almost. And on the days we were together, time would glide. Most of the night I’d see him, and his smile. I’d hear his conversation and his silence [...] until it was time to repose . Sleep I would often divide with him. By the second I realized I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping, no negotiating with the feeling. No choice. It was my first love, it changed my life.’

Ocean is a fan – and in some ways, an inheritor – of Prince’s gender-bending approach to songwriting. But he is the first mainstream R&B star to come out of the closet instead of remaining a question mark, continually playing with an ‘is he or isn’t he’ edifice.

The selection to make his grand coming-out statement via Tumblr made cosmic sense somehow; many of music’s biggest stories