"That's My Best Friend" rapper Tokyo Vanity stirred up a little bit of controversy recently after going on Instagram Live and sharing her thoughts about the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual or allies) community. The Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star spoke freely to her followers as she discussed how cartoons are affecting children, primarily addressing their influence on a child's sexuality.
"The children now...all their cartoons are gay s**t," Vanity said. "Girl on girl this and guy on guy that. And the thing is, I just feel like...it's too persuasive now," she said. "It's like they're trying to persuade children and to brainwash children to be that, like...gay is a sexuality. It's something that's just in you. If you're gay, it's something that's in you. I believe you was born that way."
"But like, TV be really brainwashing our children like sponges," Vanity continued. "For instance, when you told your little boy or when you told your little girl, 'Stop playing around that pole like that," you as [an] adult, you see something else. But them is children. It's innocent."
As her followers began to question if the rapper had a problem with gay people, Vanity explained that she had no issues with the gay and transgender community. "It's nothing wrong with being gay. Gay is what you choose to do, it's the way you was born. It's in you," Vanity says. "But, at the end of the day, to pursue it and to act on it is your decision.