Snoop Dogg Teams With GLAAD to Support LGBTQ+ Youth After Comments About Queer Characters in Kids’ Movies: ‘Hate Is Taught, And So Is Love’

Just 2 months aft claiming helium didn’t privation to spot LGBTQ+ characters successful kids’ movies, Snoop Dogg is pivoting successful a caller concern with GLAAD to observe the community.

On Thursday (Oct. 16), GLAAD announced a caller collaboration with the rapper pegged to Spirit Day, the organization’s yearly anti-bullying run aimed astatine showing queer younker support. The caller collaboration sees Snoop teaming up with The Voice alum Jeremy Beloate, who performed connected the rapper’s squad during play 26 successful 2024, for a caller opus titled “Love Is Love” featured successful an occurrence of Snoop’s YouTube children’s bid Doggyland.

Along with the caller song, Snoop sat down with Beloate for an honest conversation astir LGBTQ+ issues, including his thoughts connected same-sex parenting.

“It’s a beauteous happening that kids tin person parents of each walks and beryllium capable to beryllium shown emotion and to beryllium taught what emotion is, due to the fact that hatred is taught, and truthful is emotion … whether it’s 2 fathers, 2 mothers, immoderate it is, emotion is the key,” Snoop says successful the video. “I deliberation these kids are being loved by these large parents that are, you know, showing them an illustration of what household is.”

The caller interrogation is successful stark opposition to comments the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper made successful August when helium criticized the Disney movie Lightyear for including LGBTQ+ characters, saying helium didn’t privation to explicate queer relationships to his grandkids. “I didn’t travel present for this sh–, I conscionable came to ticker the godd–n movie,” helium said successful an interrogation connected the It’s Giving podcast. “I’m frightened to spell to the movies now. Like, y’all throwing maine successful the mediate of sh– that I don’t person an reply for.”

A fewer weeks aft helium made his comments, Snoop appeared to locomotion them back erstwhile helium commented connected an Instagram station successful which activistic and online property Ts Madison criticized his comments. “I was conscionable caught disconnected defender and had nary reply for my grandsons each my cheery friends [know] what’s up they been calling maine with love,” helium wrote. “my atrocious for not knowing the answers for a 6 yr aged … thatch maine however to larn I’m not perfect.”

Watch Snoop Dogg’s afloat speech with Jeremy Beloate below: