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Fat Joe and The Game have become game-changers in hip-hop\u2019s approach to the GLBT community. Have we come a long way since Ice Cube\u2019s 1991 ode to male anal rap, \u201cNo Vaseline\u201d?Jayceon Terrell Taylor, aka The GameMaybe so. Hip-hop stars have been shedding the community\u2019s homophobic image, perhaps in light of New York\u2019s passage of the Marriage Equality Act back in June, ranging from encouraging people to come out to simply praising the GLBT community.Straight and hardcore rapper Fat Joe put hip-hop\u2019s new approach to GLBT people into words during a recent Vlad TV interview. \u201cIn 2011, you gotta hide that you gay?\u201d he asked. \u201cBe real! \u2018Yo, I\u2019m gay. What the f**k!\u2019 If you gay, you gay. That\u2019s your preference. 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