Kanye West ... glad to be gay
Kanye West ... glad to be gay Kanye West in trademark glasses. Photograph: Getty/Dave Hogan Once more to the pensées of Baron Kanye West , then, who informs Details magazine that he has generously decided to rehabilitate the word gay. "I like to embody titles, y'know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that's good," declares Kanye. "Take the word gay - like, in hip-hop, that's a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person - the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design - it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, ...