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Dotty: How Frank Ocean’s coming out changed the landscape

The album that followed was Channel Orange, a body of work that served as the soundtrack to his ‘coming out’ a powerful project that saw him talk openly of his love for a man. ‘You sprint my mind boy’ he sang on Forrest Gump, the album’s most overt exploration of Frank’s sexuality. ‘You're so buff and so strong, I'm nervous, Forrest’, he continued. Then there’s the self-deprecation on , a song that sees Frank battle the demons of unrequited same-sex admire in the help of a cab. ‘Taxi driver, I swear I've got three lives / Balanced on my top like steak knives / I can't tell you the truth about my disguise / I can't trust no one.’ He sings, ‘I can never make him devote me.’

Like his exposed letter in July 2012, Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange was perfectly undefinable. Flirting with soul, funk and electronic styles without ever turning its back on R&B. It was also a masterclass in songwriting, with each composition showcasing a flair for honesty and vulnerability. The kind of which you’ll only come across every so often i

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 homosexual – not on national television, but in a shyly poetic, sideways announce on his Tumblr. ‘Four summers ago, I met somebody,’ Ocean wrote. ‘I was 19 years senior. 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 evening I’d see him, and his smile. I’d listen his conversation and his silence [...] until it was time to nap. Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in passion, 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 choice to create his grand coming-out utterance via Tumblr made cosmic sense somehow; many of music’s biggest stories this year were mediated almost ent

Is Frank Ocean Gay?

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

In 2011, he posted a beautiful expression (that can be read below) on Tumblr that was considered to be his coming out to the world. In it, he describes his first adore 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 like that couldn't be expressed just yet. It all comes through in his song "Thinking About You" which you can smack play on below.

There is no denying that Frank Ocean is part of the LGBTQ+ group. but of what use is this information? Can we use it to learn, to expand, to challenge our own limiting faith 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 group of teenagers utter the other day, here on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, when it came out that Frank Ocean had revealed a past love affair with a man. There was no judgment in that remark, no queer 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 Brand-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 Kill Them All, often abbreviated to OFWGKTA, or simply shortened to Odd Future.

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

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There’s something both joyous and tragic about RnB singer and hip-hop associate Frank Ocean’s decision to appear out as bisexual. In 2012, this shouldn’t be as ‘heroic’ or ‘brave’ as people are making out.

Personally I’m thrilled, as Frank Ocean’s rising chart stature in a song genre that’s still so closeted about its same-sex attracted and bi community can only help beat a path to the overdue acceptance of people’s sexuality.

In an eye-wateringly beautiful letter that sums up the bewildering excitement of love’s first pang, Frank wrote:

“4 summers ago I met someone. 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, moment would glide…by the period I realised I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless.”

The internet is awash with commentators congratulating his courageous and bold move, however his move is also marred with people commenting that they will ‘still love him the same’ as if he’s just announced he’s had his arms amputated and needs some pity.

The magnitude of Frank&#