Queerty (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Terrance Dean's Hiding In Hip-Hop will soon hit the shelves, but you can start the blind item guessing game now. Hint: we’re not mentioned. [Gawker]
Music News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Within the masculine culture of Hip Hop and Hollywood, there is a well-known gay subculture that industry insiders are keenly aware of but choose to hide. Terrance Dean worked his way up for more than ten years in the entertainment … Original post by unknown
Bossip (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Posted by Bossip Staff Terrance Dean's new tell all book “Hiding in Hip Hop” has hit the stands. Dean dares to indirectly out several lesbians on the Hollyweird scene. See if you can guess who’s who: “Dean talks about people he knew who used to frequent a lesbian club in LA. ‘A few times, I spotted ‘Asia,’ [...]
LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times in the hip hop industry as a gay man. It is an explosive exposé of a thriving gay subculture in an aggressively male business, where anti-gay lyrics and public homophobia are common. [...] That gay hip hop subculture certainly seems to be thriving. Dean's book describes a world where many industry executives...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Hiding in Hip Hop, entertainment industry vet Terrance Dean's coy tell-all book about the gay secrets of famous people in the music world and Hollywood at large, has not exhausted all of its blind...
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
In his new book Hiding in Hip Hop , former MTV executive Terrance Dean claims that the macho and often homophobic world of rap hides a thriving gay subculture. Dean, who is gay, says many industry executives and some artists are leading secret gay lives.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... Eminem's secondhand gay-hate from me, or at least not this time. But the latest story is this: Terrance Dean, an MTV exec, has just broken cover by describing the flourishing gay subculture in this most homophobic of worlds. It is wild, apparently. Dean is very discreet, but if you did know anything and you could put two and two together about the anonymous stars he describes,...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Yesterday, I finally received my advance copy of Hiding in Hip Hop, former closeted MTV producer (pictured) Terrance Dean's much-hyped autobiography about all of the gays that are, well, hiding in...
UnaRocks (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Terence Dean, a former producer at MTV, has written a book about gay subculture in hip-hop called 'Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry' . It's mainly a memoir about Dean's life, and he says he won't be 'naming names', but should still make for interesting reading. Gayness and hip hop obviously aren't very compatible. The industry is incredibly macho, and in...
F-News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
American rap music is an industry ruled by machismo. It is a place where reputations are made by shady pasts, the aura of violence and ultra-masculinity. But now an explosive new book is lifting the lid on one of hip hop's most unexpected secrets: that many people in the business are gay. Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
DOWNLOAD: Estelle & Kanye West - American Boy (LAZRtag remix) (MP3) Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times in the hip hop industry as a gay man . It is an explosive exposé of a thriving gay subculture in an aggressively male business, where anti-gay lyrics and public homophobia are common. Perhaps not surprisingly, many in the...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Whoever would have thought that, beneath all the macho posturing and crotch-grabbing and bitch this and ho that of hip-hop, there's a lot of closeted homosexuality in the rap world ? Oh, you'd guessed? Terrance Dean used to work for MTV, and he's now published a book revealing what he's seen. Although he's not actually naming names. Some of these guys have guns , you know: That gay hip...
SOHH Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Our current Confessions blogger Terrence Dean stopped by the Wendy Williams Experience yesterday and boy oh boy did the spark fly.
Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... the lid on one of hip hop's most unexpected secrets: that many people in the business are gay. Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times in the hip hop industry as a gay man. It is an explosive exposé of a thriving gay subculture in an aggressively male business, where anti-gay lyrics and public homophobia are common. Perhaps...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
American rap music is an industry ruled by machismo. It is a place where reputations are made by shady pasts, the aura of violence and ultra-masculinity. But now an explosive new book is lifting the lid on one of hip hop's most unexpected secrets: that many people in the business are gay.Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times...
