It’s no secret that beg openly LGBTQ+ the K-pop world is difficult, but the stars enuraged the muny wh their posive msag – and even hope to help pneer gay rights
Contents:
- GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
- WHAT THE BRAVE NEW WAVE OF GAY MALE POP STARS MEANS FOR MIC
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
* gay pop artists 2022 *
This risg star, who lls himself "your gay die pop btie" on Instagram, has a talogue brimmg wh hopeful tun that will banish any and all dark clouds over your head. Holland is not the first known LGBT K-pop idol, but you n say that this new generatn of K-pop, he's one of the first idols who admted that he's gay.
He ially me out as gay 2015, and upon g Korea, his iends told him to keep his sexualy secret - but he's proud of his inty, makg him the first Korean artist who is openly gay.
However, durg an terview, she nfsed she is gay, g her to be kicked out om her agency. However, while such bold visibily may seem like the norm 2022, 's a far cry om pop mic's recent Gee, lead sger of the '80s pop group Culture Club, playfully dodged qutns about his sexualy terviews or nced he was bisexual, although he would later e out as gay; an arrt for mtg a “lewd act” a public park would prompt sger Gee Michael to clare his sexualy 1998; former NSYNC member Lance Bass reaed om g out as gay durg the pop group's early ghts n for fear of jeopardizg the band’s reer; and “Amerin Idol” alum Adam Lambert was dropped om a major morng talk show 2009 after an awards show performance drew backlash over his same-sex, what’s changed between then and now?
WHAT THE BRAVE NEW WAVE OF GAY MALE POP STARS MEANS FOR MIC
” More:Troye Sivan, Hayley Kiyoko are the unabashedly gay pop stars we need right nowJeremy Blacklow, director of entertament media at GLAAD, says the sense of nnectn facilated by technology has expand LGBTQ reprentatn, which helps brg “the queer world together" and creat "more opportuni for queer people to see themselv and to fd muny.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
“I thk if you were queer and you saw Boy Gee the early Culture Club vios, you would regnize that as a fellow queer person, even though he wasn’t sayg, ‘I’m an out and proud gay man’ ( the media at the time), ” says Tongson, profsor of genr and sexualy studi at the Universy of Southern California, says the current generatn of LGBTQ pop stars echo a legacy of artists, cludg Bowie, Prce and rock pneer Ltle Richard, who rporated queer athetics to their work. In recent years, we’ve seen micians talk openly about their gay inty and same-sex relatnships. Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn.
His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview. As the earlit show of queer solidary om a proment metal mician, Halford’s admissn proved val rhapg the public perceptn of heavy metal, repostg an earspltg, heteronormative boys’ club as a safe space where headbangers of all typ uld be themselv, sheltered the flailg arms of not jt a benevolent (and openly gay) God, but the scene wr large. ” The fact that he did all while beg pletely open about his sexualy – llg himself “rock’s tt fairy” – is astoundg and, for a brief, shg moment 1974, Jobriath beme the most visible gay man popular mic.
While the “Queen of Dis” is a tle most monly btowed upon Donna Summer, also appli to Sylvter, who was a fixture of the dis scene and an in of the gay liberatn movement that spawned out of San Francis. The tle track even clus the lyric: “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay. It wasn’t until after hostg var episos of the show for a uple years – which all centered on LGBT issu – that she spoke openly about her partner of over two s and the stggl of beg gay the mic dtry.