Snoop Dogg introduced star energy to Jackson State College on Tuesday (October), stepping right into a campus auditorium for a shock look throughout GLAAD’s “Era Z and HIV: Human Challenge. Southern Answer. An HBCU Tour.”
The Hip-Hop icon joined college students, advocates and well being leaders for a well timed dialog about HIV prevention in Black communities and his current remarks about LGBTQ illustration in media.
The occasion marked the kickoff of GLAAD’s HBCU tour, with Jackson State serving as the primary cease.
Snoop sat down with Darian Aaron, GLAAD’s Director of Native Information for the U.S. South, for a fireside-style dialogue that tackled each his personal studying curve and the broader HIV disaster affecting the South, per WLBT3.
“HIV in Black communities is much from over, and Black individuals within the South, no matter sexual orientation, gender id, socioeconomic standing, or variety of whole companions, stay at disproportionate danger,” Aaron mentioned. “The tour will assist inform and defend college students with important information about HIV, together with that it’s preventable with an injection or day by day tablet, in addition to survivable and untransmittable when correctly handled.”
Hosted by Spectrum at JSU and backed by pharmaceutical firm Gilead Sciences, this system aimed to ship important schooling round HIV prevention and hurt discount to Gen Z college students at traditionally Black schools and universities.
The looks got here simply months after Snoop confronted widespread criticism for feedback made throughout an episode of the It’s Giving podcast, the place he expressed discomfort with LGBTQ+ themes in kids’s programming. Recalling a second along with his grandson whereas watching Disney’s Lightyear, Snoop mentioned:
“I’m scared to go to the flicks now. Y’all throwing me in the midst of stuff that I don’t have a solution for… It threw me for a loop. Do we actually want to indicate this at their age? They’re going to ask questions, and I don’t have the solutions.”
The remarks drew backlash throughout social media and information retailers, with many accusing the rapper of being tone-deaf.
In October, Snoop took a extra affirming stance by releasing “Love is Love,” a track featured on his Doggyland youngsters’ present that promotes household variety and acceptance.
GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy group, chosen Jackson State to launch its tour, aiming to achieve college students with real-world details about HIV and the way stigma, misinformation and silence proceed to gas the epidemic.
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