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GQ is ‘sold’ on the T-shirts: ‘Tyler is taking symbols that oppress him as a black man, and using them to empathize with gay men.’ The T-shirts have been met with mixture of praise and skepticism. But maybe someone will see this photo and say ” hey, he’s just mocking gays” or ” this has a negative undertone to it, he is still pushing this homophobic whatever the fuck it is”. ‘I mean, i’m legit one of the least homophobic guys to walk this earth but, most people just read the surface. ‘Again, trying to take the power out of something, I WAS NEVER REFERRING TO SOMEONES SEXUAL PREFERENCE WHEN USING THAT WORD. ‘ever since my career started, ive been labeled as a homophobe, simply because of my use of the word faggot,’ he wrote. One of the T-shirts features a rainbow colored logo with the words Golf Pride Worldwide encircling it, which doesn’t seem like a big deal at first glance, but the message is actually pretty major. Tyler also responded to criticism of his use of the faggot. The lookbook for Tyler, The Creator’s Golf Wang’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection dropped yesterday, and there is one piece in the collection that has people talking.
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This made the photo even more important to me, because it was me playing with the idea of taking the power out of something so stupid.’ ‘The thing that tops it off is the homo erotic tone of the hand holding, which to some degree HAS to piss off the guys who takes this logo serious. Throw a little rainbow in the logo ( i still wonder, who was the guy that said a rainbow is the gay symbol? thats another article stay tuned) and take a photo with a white guy in it and we have an amazing photo,’ he wrote. ‘What if a black guy wore this logo on a shirt? Would he be promoting self hate? Would he be taking the power out of a shape? What if a gay guy wore this on a shirt? Would he promoting Homophobia? Then BAM! I Had it. The Odd Future rapper, 24, used the the anti-gay slur ‘faggot’ 213 times on his 2011 debut album Goblin, a term he claims is ‘just another word.’īut why the neo-Nazi insignia? Tyler posted an explanation of his thought process on Tumblr, along with a photo of him wearing the T-shirt and holding hands with a white man. Tyler, The Creator has designed a gay pride T-shirt for his Golf Wang clothing label with a rainbow White Pride World Wide logo emblazoned across the front.