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Frank Ocean performs at Terminal 5 on July 26, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Why Frank Ocean 'coming out' was brave

Michael Arceneaux
OPINION - Regardless of what label Frank Ocean does or doesn’t feel is true as it pertains to his sexual orientation, the one that tag that applies best at this moment is brave...
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Frank Ocean performs onstage at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival held at The Empire Polo Field on April 13, 2012 in Indio, California. (Photo by Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella)

Frank Ocean comes out: Rap community reacts

Sowmya Krishnamurthy
theGRIO REPORT - Frank posted the heartfelt confessional on his Tumblr early this morning in which he chronicles falling in love with another man...
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Frank Ocean performs onstage at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival held at The Empire Polo Field on April 13, 2012 in Indio, California. (Photo by Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella)

Frank Ocean: 'My first love was a man'

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theGRIO REPORT - Rising R&B star Frank Ocean has officially come out of the closet...
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Frank Ocean (Getty Images)

Frank Ocean may 'come out' on album

Kyle Harvey
theGRIO REPORT - ThisIsMax reports that Ocean reflects on his own sexuality and alludes to a sexual preference for both men and women on the new album...
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Historic photos of black gay men unearthed

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - Hidden in the Open is photo essay and collection of African American gay male couples throughout history going as far back as the 19th century...
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: TV personality Dwight Eubanks attends BET's Rip the Runway 2011 at The Manhattan Center on February 26, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Are gay men the new 'mammies' of reality TV?

Kirsten West Savali, Clutch Magazine
CLUTCH - The barely sheathed hypocrisy and passive prejudice is all brought to light here...
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Frenchie Davis performs at the 10th Anniversary LA Police Protective League's Eagle & Badge Foundation Gala on August 30, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Valerie Macon/Getty Images)

Frenchie Davis comes out: 'I'm in love with a woman'

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - Frenchie Davis, a former 'American Idol' and 'The Voice' contestant has revealed that she has been dating a woman for the past year...
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Teen attacked and blinded by bullies

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According to New York Daily News a Brooklyn teen is blind in one eye after an attack from bullies in his middle school..
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NC man killed 4-year-old child he thought was gay

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A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to murdering a 28-year old woman and a 4-year-old child that he apparently believed was gay...
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Gays unite with blacks to fight 'stop-and-frisk'

David A. Love
OPINION - This week in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, gay rights groups protested the NYPD’s 'stop-and-frisk' policy, which targets mostly black and Latino men...
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