n. Hip-hop music as performed, played, or promoted by gay and lesbian artists, DJs, or MCs.
2003
For decades, gay hip-hop-heads have toed the line, rapping about everything except their sexuality and stifling their anger at homophobic lyrics by mainstream rappers. Like good street soldiers, they kept it "real" while the music they once embraced as a creative outlet became another closet.
Now that's changed. Thanks to the emergence of homohop, a growing genre that's equal parts music and community, gay MCs and DJs are staking their claim in uncompromisingly loud, rhyming terms.
Now that's changed. Thanks to the emergence of homohop, a growing genre that's equal parts music and community, gay MCs and DJs are staking their claim in uncompromisingly loud, rhyming terms.
2003
It's time to get your booty over to the Oakland Metro in Jack London Square for the Third Annual PeaceOUT World HomoHop Festival , a celebration of positive, creative, and provoking spins on the lifestyle and art of hip-hop, featuring MCs, DJs, and visual artists from around the globe.
2001 (earliest)
D/DC members — who consider themselves part of the "homo-hop" movement — travel around the country. Through poetry and hip hop, they spread a gay-positive message for African Americans: There's nothing wrong with brothers loving each other.
Six thousand copies of a University of Toronto newspaper have been recalled and will be reprinted because an advertisement for a gay dance was mysteriously taken out. … The paper was to have displayed the ad which gives the time, date and place for a popular dance called the Homo Hop.