DJ Mr. Cee (real name Calvin Lebrun), who has spent the last 20 years working at New York City’s iconic hip-hop radio station Hot 97, has admitted to some sexual activities that are a bit outside of the heterosexual realm as of late. Just a few days ago, cross dressing vlogger Bimbo Winehouse posted audio of what was claimed to be Mr. Cee attempting to solicit oral sex from him. The audio was picked up by popular hip hop blogs and led to a firestorm of chatter within the hip hop community, most of which was at best misguided and at worst transphobic and hateful.
While the incident with Winehouse is the most recent of Mr. Cee’s dabbles into the other regions of the Kinsey scale, it isn’t the only one. In early May, Mr. Cee was arrested for trying to solicit what turned out to be an undercover cop for oral sex in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Back in 2011, he was arrested after being caught receiving oral sex from a 20-year-old male companion in lower Manhattan. A police source confided to the NY Daily News at the time that he’d been busted twice the year before that for loitering in the same area in order to pick up hustlers.
Mr. Cee resigned from his post hosting a noontime show on Hot 97 a few days ago, but program director Ebro Darden wasn’t having it. Ebro invited Mr. Cee to clear his name in an emotional interview on the Hot97 morning show, where Mr. Cee came clean about his activities, stating that while he “loves women”, he occasionally gets the urge to “have fellatio with a transsexual — a man that looks like a woman.” He then added that he’s definitely not gay because he hasn’t “penetrated another man.”
After the interview, in which Ebro seemed more concerned with Cee’s predilection for hookers than anything else, Mr. Cee returned to his post on Hot 97.
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Whether Mr. Cee is gay, straight, or somewhere in between, kudos to him for coming clean about his issues, being open about who he is, and to Ebro and Hot 97 for sticking with a loyal member of the crew and taking another small step to make homophobia in hip hop a thing of the past.
B Damion
“Whether Mr. Cee is gay, straight, or somewhere in between, kudos to him for coming clean about his issues, being open about who he is, and to Ebro and Hot 97 for sticking with a loyal member of the crew and taking another small step to make homophobia in hip hop a thing of the past”.
really queerty? really? This man said he is not gay. Sooooo…how is this coming out?
I can’t I can’t..lol.it’s too easy to go in on this story. I’m done.
This is some str8 bs..
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GeriHew
@B Damion: I’m bi.
Since when do you need to be gay to come out about your sexuality?
neostud
The man is probably gay. He just have a lot of sexual identity issues to work through. It may seems hard at first, but with right amount of good friends, love and compassion he will make it through.
Scribe38
I@GeriHew: I don’t view men who sleep with transsexuals as gay or bisexual. I believe they belong to a category all their own. Str8 men who are pegged by there wives aren’t gay or bi either. Maybe its a power thing for him. Gay men are gay because we like men. This guy isn’t getting blown by men but by women with really real looking strap-ons.
GeriHew
@Scribe38: I didn’t say he (Mr.Cee) is bisexual. I said I’m bi.
I actually think B Damion was right to criticize Queerty for saying; ““Whether Mr. Cee is gay, straight, or somewhere in between, kudos to him for coming clean about his issues,” etc.
But then totally blew it by suggesting that Mr. Cee wasn’t coming out about his sexuality. I was taking issue with B Damion for suggesting you need to be gay in order to come out.
I also take issue with what you’re saying. I believe (actually I know) that transoriented man & women can be basically straight, bisexual, pansexual, gay/lesbian as well as transoriented, or they can be actually just transoriented. Whereas what you seem to be suggesting by saying that men who sleep with transsexuals belong to a category all their own is that there is a specific sexual orientation to which these men belong.
This is quite wrong. Transoriented people don’t all have the same sexual orientation any more than transgender people do. Trans people can be basically straight, bisexual, pansexual or gay/lesbian as well
GayTampaCowboy
I heard a replay of his interview on their station and i have to say, it wasn’t so much what he said about having received oral sex from transexuals, it was him saying that this didn’t make him gay, that raised a red flag to me!
Then, i heard an interview with a well-know rapper from the NYC area who really lashed out at Mr Cee for that statement, saying basically that those in the rap world KNEW of his attraction to Xdressers/Transexuals and felt he lost ALL credibility in the circle of recording artists and rappers for having denied his being bi/gay – and, that HAD he come out and declared his TRUE orientation that, since they ALL KNEW he was bi/gay, that he’d have been supported. But now, since he denied it (because he didn’t top or bottom another man), that he was viewed as a liar and has no “street cred” anymore.
Oh well!
tardis
I think the problem here is that some people just don’t know how to define gay or feel they for the conventional definition of gay. Straight people–100%–straight people will definitely see him as gay, so I think that’s why he’s reaffirming that he isn’t. I don’t think he is gay. To be honest, I wouldn’t even know how to catagorize men who enjoy the company of transgendered people. Sexuality is complex. As a society, I think it’s contra productive to lump one group of people to a similar experience. See, I think there’s a strong majority that can wholeheartedly say “I’m straight” or “I’m gay.” Unfortunately there’s a minority of people that just don’t have a label to fall under.
Scribe38
@GeriHew: baby I wasn’t saying that transsexuals people don’t have orientations that may be gay or str8. What I was saying it that any man sleeping with a transsexual woman (mtf) isn’t gay. Gay guys don’t seek out MTF to sleep with.
GeriHew
@Scribe38: Well most of the trans people I know aren’t actually gay or “str8” (does anyone who is actually straight refer to themselves as “str8” btw? Maybe in America I suppose) they are bisexual, or have some other non-monosexual identity.
I would agree that it’s quite rare, but there are some gay identified men who have sexual relationships with MTFs. There are also some lesbian identified women who have sexual relationships with FTMs. Considering there are a fair number of gay identified men who have had sexual relationships with women and at least 50% of lesbian identified women have had sexual relationships with men I don’t think it’s really wise to say gay guys never have relations with MTFs.
Of course you could argue that none of these people can actually be gay/lesbian but they will come back at you with reasons why they feel they are gay and not bi or pan. Maybe they should just call themselves queer and leave it at that.
GeriHew
@tardis: Re: “Straight people–100%–straight people will definitely see him as gay,”
You’re definitely stereotyping straight people there. Some would consider him gay, others most definitely would not. And yet others would not know or even care.
Scribe38
@GeriHew: I would sleep/date a FTM transsexual b4 a MTF transsexual. Buck Angel does it for me for some reason. I can’t think of any circumstance where I would date a MTF trans person or a woman. I will admit I dated/slept with women in my teens. You mentioned Pan sexual and another poster bisexual I would see him as either of those b4 gay. Although I admit this is a really stupid argument to have. I just view him as a freaky ass str8 guy who likes “girls with toys”.
ptseti
He then added that he’s definitely not gay because he hasn’t “penetrated another man.”
Umm Memo to sweet boy Mr,Cee. You are using the stereotype of gay men for cover. So from your statement I can also conclude that I am definitely straight as I admire women or I am straight as my girlfriend penetrates me!. Get some balls and face the brutal truth, you may or may not be OUT internally but trust me sweet boy you are a friend of Dorothy and a dedicated friend too. There are a lot guys hiding behind the transsexual door hoping to use the illusion of transgendered men to cover their activities and justify to themselves they are not gay. Please…spare me the thought…..it’s like me looking for rough men and saying to myself I don’t do queers as I only sleep with rough men..hello…..if it’s a dude and u mess around with him, guess what, you do the Dew. You love men. Period.