Bad Bunny Covers Playboy, Makes History & Opens Up About Being a Queer Ally

Bad Bunny is making Playboy history this week for being the first male – besides its late founder Hugh Hefner – to grace the magazine's cover. (He's also the first person to cover the publication's digital issue). And in the piece, the Puerto Rican musician opened up about being a queer ally amongst other topics.

Earlier this year, Ricky Martin told Rolling Stone magazine that the rapper has become "an icon for the Latin queer community" for a profile piece about him due to Bad Bunny's openness about talking about LGBTQ issues and embracing drag culture. At the time the U.K. newspaper The Guardian wrote: "Martin's generous praise falls in line with the recent attention Bunny has received on social media and from LGBTQ publications. The eccentric, gender-bending rapper was praised for speaking out against the murder of a trans woman in Puerto Rico during a live performance on US TV and adopting a drag persona in the video for his track 'Yo Perreo Sola.'"

The piece goes on to note how Bad Bunny, 26, performed with Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at the Super Bowl earlier this year but that "his development as a liberated, LGBTQ ally is still in its infancy."

When speaking with Playboy, Bad Bunny, who is often gender-bending in his music videos and has stylish and unconventional live performances, instead he is not "queerbaiting," according to E! News. He also talked about his evolving career as well as being a queer ally.

"I think I have an audience split in two: fans of Bad Bunny and fans of reggaet�n itself, and I want to merge the two," he said. "I feel I have a big sector to educate. There's a lot of people who won't pay attention to other people calling them out, but they follow Bad Bunny. If he tells them what's good, maybe they can grow as people and come to accept others."

"I do all of this and I'm not even sure what I cause. It's not until someone comes up to me and tells me, 'Man, thank you,' that I realize the impact," Bad Bunny said elsewhere in his interview.

He also went on to talk about machismo in the Latin trap and reggaet�n.

"There's nothing worse than being somewhere and feeling like you don't belong," he told Playboy. "I've been trying to make sure everybody feels part of the culture of reggaet�n. I want to make sure they feel that they have someone there, that friend that can stand up for them.

The music industry and society in general [treat women] like they're nothing," he added. "Women are human beings and deserve respect and the same treatment as anybody else."

Bad Bunny's latest album "YHLQMDLG" was released in February.

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