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 two months after claiming he didn’t want to see LGBTQ+ characters in kids’ movies, Snoop Dogg is pivoting in a new partnership with GLAAD to celebrate the community.
On Thursday (Oct. 16), GLAAD announced a new collaboration with the rapper pegged to Spirit Day, the organization’s annual anti-bullying campaign aimed at showing queer youth support. The new collaboration sees Snoop teaming up with The Voice alum Jeremy Beloate, who performed on the rapper’s team during season 26 in 2024, for a new song titled “Love Is Love” featured in an episode of Snoop’s YouTube children’s series Doggyland.
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Along with the new song, Snoop sat down with Beloate for an honest conversation about LGBTQ+ issues, including his thoughts on same-sex parenting.
“It’s a beautiful thing that kids can have parents of all walks and be able to be shown love and to be taught what love is, because hate is taught, and so is love … whether it’s two fathers, two mothers, whatever it is, love is the key,” Snoop says in the video. “I think these kids are being loved by these great parents that are, you know, showing them an example of what family is.”
The new interview is in stark contrast to comments the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper made in August when he criticized the Disney film Lightyear for including LGBTQ+ characters, saying he didn’t want to explain queer relationships to his grandkids. “I didn’t come here for this sh–, I just came to watch the godd–n movie,” he said in an interview on the It’s Giving podcast. “I’m scared to go to the movies now. Like, y’all throwing me in the middle of sh– that I don’t have an answer for.”
A few weeks after he made his comments, Snoop appeared to walk them back when he commented on an Instagram post in which activist and online personality Ts Madison criticized his comments. “I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons all my gay friends [know] what’s up they been calling me with love,” he wrote. “my bad for not knowing the answers for a 6 yr old … teach me how to learn I’m not perfect.”
Watch Snoop Dogg’s full conversation with Jeremy Beloate below:
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