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Anonymous wrote:Back when he was in his prime (early ‘90’s) it would have been a career dealbreaker if he had come out as gay.

Even thirty years ago - one could not be who they were, they had to pretend to be someone else.
Thank goodness these days it is SO much better.
Frank Ocean and Lil Nas have come out & no one bats an eye.
But three decades ago it was unheard of.

Glad the world has progressed to the place we are in now.

Posters are forgetting TC was a teenage heartthrob. Teen girls were his biggest fan base so of course he was in the closet. Male artists targeting that demo still hide it today. Look at Harry Styles and Sean Mendez. They waited until they’d aged out of the teenybopper audience to become more publicly open with their sexuality.

It took George Michael 18-19 years to walk out of the closet that most people knew he was sheltering. More importantly he did not willingly come out of the closest of his own volition. He was outed when he was busted for soliciting sex with a man in a restroom. GM would not have been accepted as gay earlier in his career.

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Anonymous wrote:Back when he was in his prime (early ‘90’s) it would have been a career dealbreaker if he had come out as gay.

Even thirty years ago - one could not be who they were, they had to pretend to be someone else.
Thank goodness these days it is SO much better.
Frank Ocean and Lil Nas have come out & no one bats an eye.
But three decades ago it was unheard of.

Glad the world has progressed to the place we are in now.

Posters are forgetting TC was a teenage heartthrob. Teen girls were his biggest fan base so of course he was in the closet. Male artists targeting that demo still hide it today. Look at Harry Styles and Sean Mendez. They waited until they’d aged out of the teenybopper audience to become more publicly open with their sexuality.

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Anonymous wrote:Worst kept secret in history.

Sad that he felt like like he had to hide since his audience wouldn’t accept him. That’s something the black community really needs to own and address: it’s homophobia. You’d think a group as persecuted as the black community would be better at accepting diversity.

Eff off! You don't know shit about us. We supported TC even though it was obvious he’s gay. I can’t stand you self-righteous clowns.

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Hit a nerve.

Yes, you did.

White people need to check their shit instead of judging everyone else.

NP. You know that most of them can’t do that. White folks always trying to dissect other groups at the same time they commit genocide around the world. They never own their shit, so they pivot and attempt to gaslight other groups.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Whaat?? Harry Styles and Sean Mendez are both gay?

Anonymous wrote:Back when he was in his prime (early ‘90’s) it would have been a career dealbreaker if he had come out as gay.

Even thirty years ago - one could not be who they were, they had to pretend to be someone else.
Thank goodness these days it is SO much better.
Frank Ocean and Lil Nas have come out & no one bats an eye.
But three decades ago it was unheard of.

Glad the world has progressed to the place we are in now.

Anonymous wrote:Eddie Murphy solicited transvestites back in the day but yet only tevin Campbell is the gay one ?

Anonymous wrote:^^ Yes Tevin is discussing homophobia in the Black community since he personally dealt w/all of it. ^^

I think part of the reason that he has come out officially is to help other Blacks in the community who may be going through what he had to go through in the 1990’s.

But why are people on this thread fighting back and forth??
It doesn’t mesh with Tevin, his situation OR his legendary music.

Anonymous wrote:Like everything on DCUM, this thread only briefly mentioned the fact that Lil Nas X and Frank Ocean are lucky that they have the ability to come out of the closet now while enjoying enormous success.
And sadly Tevin Campbell could not enjoy this same privilege during his music career in the ‘90’s.

Now people are spewing all this hate - Black people vs. White…..??!
Off topic tenfold.

Anyway I do not care what Tevin’s sexuality is or isn’t.
In my eyes > he will always be the legend he was born to be.
I am sad that he had to hide who he really was for so many years because of judgmental, close-minded + hypocritical people.
The world was such a different place three decades ago.

Thankfully we are more accepting of people regardless who they choose to love.
But most importantly, we really do not care either way.

We just focus on what is important: the music.

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Anonymous wrote:Check your own first house.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-sociologist-examines-the-white-fragility-that-prevents-white-americans-from-confronting-racism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/03/why-so-many-mass-shooters-young-angry-men/

We Black people always knew TC is gay; we have always supported him anyway. Keep your mouth shut about what Black people need to do while you have a lot of work to do in your own screwed up community.

If you worked in the lgbtq community—and the lgbtq homeless youth community specifically—you would realize the black and Latino communities are over represented and it stems from faith-based and other cultural beliefs.

I’m not saying whites uniformly accept gay people. But the anti-gay issues in the black community have prompted the continued hiv issues in the black community (down low is a thing created by the black community, and it prompted continued hiv spread when rates dramatically decreased among whites).

Don’t shoot the messenger. Educate yourself.

You are talking to a Black woman, idiot! YOU educate YOURSELF before you spout stats you found on the internet. I’ve been a part of the Black community for 47 years.

You don’t know shit about us!