Bad Bunny Blasts Homophobic Responses To His Fashion Choices

Ever since Bad Bunny showed up on the music scene, his gender-bending fashion choices have been the subject of both scrutiny and praise in turn. It hasn’t stopped him from continuing to dress the way he wants, or from being an outspoken ally to the LGBTQ+ community.

The rapper recently opened up to Vanity Fair about the responses he’s received about his clothing while in the spotlight, calling out the “endless number of negative comments and sexist and homophobic ones…for dressing like that.”

“Maybe the queer person suffers more, but it is not like I put on a skirt and go out and they say ‘Look how cool,’” he said, referring to the haters. “They’re going to attack me with all their force anyway.”

Although Bad Bunny has acknowledged that he’s open to a romantic relationship with a man in the future if life takes him down that road, for the time being, he still identifies as heterosexual. It’s been speculated since the beginning of the year that he’s in a relationship with Kendall Jenner, though he has declined to confirm as much, drawing a boundary with fans in this aspect of his personal life.

“I’m not really interested in clarifying anything because I have no commitment to clarify anything to anyone,” he said. “There are people who say that artists have to put up with it. I don’t have to accept anything and everything because I wanted to be an artist.”

He appeared to take a similar stance when it comes to his choice of clothing. Or, at least, he pointed out that the people who use his fashion choices as an excuse to be homophobic are lashing out from a place of making assumptions based on tired stereotypes.

“You don’t know the reasons why a person is wearing that. You weren’t in his mind when he decided to put on a skirt or a blouse. You don’t know what’s inside him, what’s in his heart,” the rapper said, adding that he chooses that clothing “because you want to and it makes you feel good and it makes you feel happy.”