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When people feel like they’re being worked, they get suspicious. The curse of being a jokester and a provocateur, accidentally or on purpose, is that it is assumed that you’re “on” all the time. Was Tyler a wrongheaded straight ally using his out friends as shields to defend his unfortunate coziness with gay slurs? Or did he have more in common with them than he cared to say? The bluesy deep cut “Garden Shed” feels like a call for absolution: “Truth is, since a youth, kid, thought it was a phase / Thought it’d be like the phrase ‘Poof! Gone’ / But it’s still going on.” Foggy fan theories immediately suggested Tyler was just joking - anything to sidestep the idea he might be lifting the veil on his own unspoken truth. Inferences on the new Tyler, the Creator album Scum Fuck Flower Boy about same-sex romance (“I’ve been kissing white boys since 2004,” he raps in “I Ain’t Got Time!”) have recast the Odd Future story in a new light. Steve Lacy, Bennett’s guitarist and songwriting partner since 2015’s elegant Ego Death, has hinted at having a boyfriend but, like Frank, resists labeling his sexuality. Engineer Syd Bennett stepped out of her role as mixer and DJ and blossomed as the lead singer of the Internet, where she writes songs about women with a warmth the sexaholics on urban radio lack. Frank Ocean shocked everyone by coming out on the eve of his debut studio album Channel Orange and still topped the charts. Consider for a moment that Odd Future - those SoCal skate rats and potheads we took to task for rampant homophobia six years ago - has secretly been the queerest uprising in the history of mainstream hip-hop.