DALLAS—The latest effort in a Dallas city official’s campaign to ban excessive baggy pants is a hip-hop song that has drawn criticism for equating the style to gay sex.

“Pull Your Pants Up” by Dwayne Brown, who performs as Dooney da’ Priest, targets the style of wearing pants so low that underwear is exposed. Brown wrote the song to support a crusade against the style by Dwaine Caraway, Dallas’ deputy mayor pro tem.

The line generating controversy mocks the style: “You walk the street with your pants way down low/I dunno; looks to me you on the down low.” The phrase “on the down low” can mean acting secretive about being gay.

Cordey Lash, a Dallas-based board member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said he never considered the style to be linked to gay behavior.

“There are a lot of homophobic people in the African-American community that would not want to be perceived as gay,” Lash said. “But he’s adding to the intolerance and the homophobic nature in the community by using it in that way.”

Brown said he’s sorry for offending anyone. But he said linking the style to homosexuality is effective. Caraway said Brown agreed to change one of the song’s original lyrics. A line that used to be “I think it’s gay” is now “I think it’s rude.”