(CNN) -- "Today is a big day for hip hop." When music impresario Russell Simmons penned those words and posted them Wednesday, he was not referring to a new album dropping or the debut of an exciting artist. He was talking about a male artist's admission that his first love was a man. "I am profoundly moved by the courage and honesty of Frank Ocean," Simmons wrote on the site Global Grind. "Your decision to go public about your sexual orientation gives hope and light to so many young people still living in fear." Ocean, an up-and-coming R&B singer, recently posted on his Tumblr that the summer he was 19 years old he fell in love with a man.
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Singer Frank Ocean has gone public with his love for a man
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Co-founder of Ocean's hip hop collective has been accused of homophobia
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The singer is enjoying some high-profile support
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