Last month queer musician Kehlani announced she was expected a baby with her gay bass player Javie Young [click here if you missed that].
Kehlani admits she was surprised by the backlash she received from the LGBTQ community...
Kehlani tells Nylon
"I’ve gotten everything from “I thought she was a lesbian” to “she was using queerness to promote her career, then went and betrayed us with a man” to “her baby father is just a sperm donor.” One, I never identified as a lesbian. I’ve always been pansexual. My first mixtape included songs about males, and songs about women. My first album had songs about a nonbinary ex, an intersex ex, and male/female exes. I don’t always make it a point to identify pronouns in the music because that isn’t the focal point. I think what steered everyone in the direction of categorizing my sexuality (which is still really narrow-minded) was my song “Honey,” and a couple of the features I’d done after."
"...I never woke up and decided to be the “queer icon” of the century."Read the full interview here
