Melts in Your Mouth

Eminem's Shady Sexuality

Originally appeared (on Nerve.com, February 22, 2001), at what was to be the zenith of Eminem's fame, talent, and ‘hotness’ - and also just after the big-shorted, untucked, 'no-homo' final decade of the C20th that was preoccupied with disavowing gayness, particularly in the US. The homo-hetero contradiction at the heart of his most popular work - and hi…