Was easy e gay
Today’s guest post was written by Andrea Milne, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at University of California, Irvine. A twentieth-century U.S. historian, she specializes in gender, sexuality, and the politics of patient advocacy, especially around HIV/AIDS. For more information about Andrea, call on her website or obey her on Twitter at @MyPenHistorical.
It’s certainly not your average summer blockbuster.
N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton” had the fifth largest August opening in history, and is expected to cross the $100 million mark this weekend. Unlike the average summer offerings, this is a movie that’s got people thinking—and the hot takes are coming in fast.
There are two kinds of articles that are circulating widely right now, as is often the case for biographical films: (1) articles covering the reactions of those who were there at the making of the history the film retells, and (2) articles decrying the topics and people that the film didn’t cover. Up to this point, the hottest of the steaming takes have decried “Straight Outta Compton” as a revisionist history, primarily because it omits Dr. Dre’s disturbing history of hostility against women includin
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This summer’s NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton billed itself as the concrete, raw story behind the game-changing rap crew, and while parts of that may be up for debate, one of the film’s most unflinching facts was its feeling portrayal of 31-year-old Eric “Eazy-E” Wright’s death from complications stemming from Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1995.
His passing, and the general announcement of his condition just months beforehand, brought HIV and AIDS out of their stigmatized confines and into the streets.
“Eazy taught us that AIDS was real,” fellow NWA member Ice Cube told MTV News prior to the film’s August release. “Not just for massive time celebrities or movie stars, but if you’re from right there in the hood, you could get it too…[Eazy]’s gonna re-teach that lesson with this movie because it’s still a big epidemic with our community.”
Cube makes a very actual point: More than 1.2 million people in the US are living with HIV in
Was Eazy-E most likely gay and on the down low?
guizot21
It is odd that he’s the only (I think) famous person to die of it who wasn’t gay…
I think a long time ago there was a heterosexual California political figure who died of AIDS because of a blood transfusion.
Amp22
Miller23
I picked up a few recent musical interests in college like Nirvana and they contain done well but that was about it.
I got some bad news for you about Kurt Cobain.
Flander24
I got some bad news for you about Kurt Cobain.
The drummer quit and started his own band.
Wee_Bairn25
Ok I forgot some . All those others mentioned though, they said how they got it, except I think Magic Johnson, and that’s a dubious situation all the way around. Eazy-E I don’t think how ever said how he thought he contacted it, but he did depart from it adorable quickly, so maybe there wasn’t time.
Sanity_Challenged26
If he was same-sex attracted, and managed to keep it peaceful throughout all the gossip and hooplah surrounding NWA with Ice Cube exiting, then the unwind of the team eventually falling out, that’d be lovely slick secret-keeping.
Larry_Borgia27
And Ryan White
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User:Pasmorade/Eazy-E
“He was ruthless in bed.”
~ Anonymous homosexual
“Alas, Eazy-E. One of the most respected rappers of the 1990s. Part of the homophobic band N.W.A, his death was ironically due to AIDS. And if you dare tell me he contracted it from a woman, you've clearly never listened to hip-hop before.”
~ Oscar Wilde
“Purched up high on a roof top like a bird; I'm havin' gay thoughts”
~ Eazy-E on himself
Pasmorade/Eazy-E
Born
- September 7, 1963(1963-09-07)
Origin Compton, California Died
- March 26, 1995(1995-03-26) (aged 31)
Genres Gangsta rap, West Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop, old educational facility hip hop Occupation Rapper, music producer Years active 1986–1995 Labels Ruthless Records, Priority Records, Relativity Records, Epic Records Eric Lynn Wright, established professionally as Eazy-E or Eazy E, was many things. A rapper, music producer, drug dealer. But most importantly, he was a pimp. Despite often referred to as the "Godfather of Gangsta Rap", he should arguably be referred to as the first closeted gay rapper.