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Fans and social media users criticized his wording as insensitive and homophobic. You gay, you a punk. In vivid detail, Panfil provides an in-depth understanding of how gay gang members construct and negotiate both masculine and gay identities through crime and gang membership. Here is a look at what he said.
Young Thug can’t look at gay men “the same.”
He told host Big Bank that he has “nothing against gay people” and even employs gay associates.
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DJ Akademiks told TMZ he believes Thug was speaking from a street-cred perspective, where deception equals betrayal. “If I look at you, if I meet you and you gay, it’s like, ‘Okay.’ If I meet you and you portraying that you a man and you’re not gay — I don’t got nothing against gay people. From that angle, the comments were about loyalty and authenticity, not hatred.
Meet gay gang members – sometimes referred to in popular culture as “homo thugs” – whose gay identity complicates criminology’s portrayal and representation of gangs, gang members, and gang life. He’s now under fire for remarks about gay men during a “Perspektives with Bank” podcast interview, sparking strong reactions from the LGBTQIA+ community.
The rapper also dealt with leaked jailhouse phone calls and public drama with former collaborator Gunna, who pleaded guilty to related charges.
However, it was the rapper’s remarks about gay men that really set netizens off. They also fight with their enemies, many of whom are in rival gay gangs. . You know what I’m saying? .The book dives deep into the complexities of what it means to grow up queer in the hood and discusses how through gangs, disadvantaged youths can unite, feel empowered, and create their own families of support and protection even across lines of sexual identity.
Wesley Crichlow,author of Buller Men and Bwatty Boys:
This book makes a substantial contribution to queer criminology.
Thug addressed both issues in the same podcast. Young Thug Slammed for Comments on Gay Men appeared first on LBS.
A gem of contemporary sociology: a potent reminder of the discipline's power to work past a culture's assumptions and, in the process, to articulate the reach and influence of those assumptions .
The conversations that this book can facilitate will greatly impact how we think about crime and criminology, while developing queer, black, and racialized-inclusive criminological research.
Jody Miller,author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence:
The Gangs All Queer offers a treasure trove of insights for gang scholars, but more importantly, demonstrates how much we all have to gain by embracing the queer criminological turn.
Michael Kimmel,author of Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era:
The Gang's All Queer not only provides an exciting and rich description of gay gang life, but it exposes the ease with which we'd heretofore seen gangs as an entirely (unexamined) heterosexual enterprise.
The Gang’s All Queer poignantly illustrates how these men both respond to and resist societal marginalization. Timely, powerful, and engaging, this book will challenge us to think differently about gangs, gay men, and urban life.