Frank Ocean responds to criticism surrounding his PrEP+ club night:
Frank Ocean's recently announced nightclub series PrEP+, which debuted in Queens on Thursday night, has drawn criticism from the queer community, for both its title and its overall concept. On Friday, the artist published a statement to Tumblr addressing some concerns, though ignoring others. He began by stating outright the series is"not funded by Gilead Sciences," the maker of PrEP+, before going on to explain his reasoning behind the party series name.
While advocating for awareness around HIV prevention is positive, Ocean's response did not acknowledge the discomfort queer critics had with his revisionist attitude towards the club scene of the '80s, during which the gay community was devastated by HIV and AIDS; at the time Ocean was referring to, the Ballroom scene was at its height. Posing the idea of this party — a club in this era that had PrEP+ — erases everything that came before its invention.
Additionally, the invention of PrEP+ is not a universal fix for the crisis; it's a prohibitively expensive drug, and not everyone is privileged enough to be able to afford it. It would perhaps be more appropriate to imagine a future where all have open access to necessary preventative drugs without worry of economic burden, rather than project that on a difficult, but vibrant queer history and erase decades of struggle.
Evan Ross Katz on Instagram: “When it was announced yesterday that Frank Ocean would be launching a queer club night in New York, I think many of us were shook at the…”
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