Frank Ocean made headlines recently by announcing that he was bisexual, bucking the long-held belief that you can?t come out in hip-hop. How has his announcement impacted young hip-hop artists struggling with their sexual identities?

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Irreverent gender-bending fun at South End's Club Cafe.

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When Madonna, in her ever-pressing efforts to spark controversy for attention, released her Erotica CD and Sex book in the early nineties, puritanical America was aghast. Both featured graphic images of sado-masochism and Madge as a gold toothed dominatrix. The video was banned on MTV and the record was Madonna’s first debut single off of an album that didn’t reach number one on the charts.

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