Following the incident that took place in Orlando when 49 people were killed and 50 injured in a gay club shooting, Frank Ocean has come out to voice his opinion and speaks about growing up homophobic.
Fans have been waiting for the 28-year-old singer to release new music for a long time now but clearly Frank Ocean has bigger topics on his agenda.
In an emotional, heartfelt open letter he published on his Tumblr page, Frank Ocean talks about growing up homophobic environment and opens up about the Orlando incident.
The artist came out about his sexuality before releasing his Grammy-nominated album, "Channel Orange" where he talks about falling in love with his best male friend and the dynamics that came with it.
Take a read:
"I read in the paper that my brothers are being thrown from
rooftops blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs for
violating sharia law. I heard the crowds stone these fallen men if they
move after they hit the ground. I heard it’s in the name of God. I heard
my pastor speak for God too, quoting scripture from his book. Words
like abomination popped off my skin like hot grease as he went on to
describe a lake of fire that God wanted me in. I heard on the news that
the aftermath of a hate crime left piles of bodies on a dance floor
this month. I heard the gunman feigned dead among all the people he
killed. I heard the news say he was one of us. I was six years old when I
heard my dad call our transgender waitress a faggot as he dragged me
out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was
dirty. That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I
heard that word, I think, although it wouldn’t shock me if it wasn’t.
Many hate us and wish we didn’t exist. Many are annoyed by our wanting
to be married like everyone else or use the correct restroom like
everyone else. Many don’t see anything wrong with passing down the same
old values that send thousands of kids into suicidal depression each
year. So we say pride and we express love for who and what we are.
Because who else will in earnest? I daydream on the idea that maybe all
this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an
equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world,
some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here. Reality by
comparison looks grey, as in neither black nor white but also bleak. We
are all God’s children, I heard. I left my siblings out of it and spoke
with my maker directly and I think he sounds a lot like myself. If I
being myself were more awesome at being detached from my own story in a
way I being myself never could be. I wanna know what others hear, I’m
scared to know but I wanna know what everyone hears when they talk to
God. Do the insane hear the voice distorted? Do the indoctrinated hear
another voice entirely?"
We hope to hear new music from this talented singer and song-writer soon.
