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Hip-Hop Stars’ hidden gay lives brought attention by MTV Executive’s book

“Everyone knows. It is not a secret in that sense. It is just that people do not talk about what goes on in private and who is sleeping with who. Now I hope a mainstream artist will have the courage to soon come out”

Former MTV executive, Terrence Dean, on his new book that tells of closeted homosexual subculture that contrasts rap industry’s anti-gay lyrics (music.guardian.co.uk)

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