Support in unlikely places

In the last several days, following President Obama's announcement of his support of Gay Marriage, other well known, successful straight men have come out to announce their support of what Obama did as well as Gay Marriage. The people I'm talking about are rap artist Jay-Z and actor/singer Will Smith. I will be the first to admit that I had a moment of thinking in stereotypes and was a bit shocked that these two were for Equal Marriage. They both gave similar statements claiming what Obama said during his ABC interview was brave.

So this got me thinking, what is it about rap, hip-hop, "gangster" types that make us automatically believe they are homophobic? This recent bit of news about these two popular and successful men from the "cool" crowd of today's world made me realize how evolved our country and our society is becoming. It may be a slow process, but it IS happening.