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Hip-Hop: Homophobia

Clip | 5m 29s

This Community Classroom educational module from Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes asks the taboo questions and challenges the listener to consider the role homophobia in hip-hop plays in maintaining the one-dimensional definition of masculinity that boxes in both men and hip-hop.

Aired: 02/04/13 | Rating: TV-PG

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