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GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

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” 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. “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.