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In an MTV News interview, Kanve West had this to say:
Man I think as straight men we need to take the rainbow back because it’s fresh. It looks fresh. I just think that because stereotypically gay people got such good like style that they were smart enough to take a fresh-ass logo like the rainbow and say that it’s gonna be theirs. But I was like “Man I think we need to have the rainbow”—the idea of colors, life and colors and stuff, I mean how is that a gay thing? Colors? Having a lot of colors is gay? (2009)
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© 2014 Julius Bailey
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West, T. (2014). “Hard to Get Straight”: Kanye West, Masculine Anxiety, Dis-identification. In: Bailey, J. (eds) The Cultural Impact of Kanye West. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137395825_8
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