Gay men and pop divas. | The Popjtice Fom

Contents:

• GAY MEN AND POP DIVAS.
• THE 12 GREATT FEMALE GAY INS OF ALL TIME
• ONLY A TE GAY IN IS GETTG 20/20 ON THIS GAY INS LYRICS QUIZ
• WHY DO SOME GAYS GET SO RABID OVER POP SONGSTRS DIVAS?
• DO GAY FANDOM HELP POP DIVAS?
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

GAY MEN AND POP DIVAS.

Who says gay men don't love women? So let's brg on the femme adoratn and celebrate the idols most worth gay-genuflectg ont of through eterny. The 12 most fabulo gay ins of all time (female divisn) GarlandThe woman who uld tear your heart out wh a melody and some moist ey, Judy appeals to the outst , as we long to go over the rabow and fd acceptance and a pot of gold.

Judy's vulnerabily ma her a quiverg gay in, as did the fact that for years, she kept on gog, able to belt out one more song spe the rigors of the bs that always tried to squeeze more juice out of her brilliance. Her ath shortly before Stonewall lks her forever to morn gay history.

As she now tri to get a movie of Gypsy produced, the gays are gettg weirdly exced aga. Gays have always loved Carol's scer-eyed way of playg golddiggers and yentas.

THE 12 GREATT FEMALE GAY INS OF ALL TIME

" the gay answer is always "Can we listen? "]Diana RossThe se, the scer ey, the vol all adds up to a diva gays love for the relentlsns of her sparkle. What's more, she and the Suprem did a 1968 Funny Girl album which may be one of the most gay-iendly acts of cultural cross-pollatn history.

Beyonce Gays love a pop diva wh full-throttle sexualy and great mov, and Beyonce remas the queen, cementg that when she played Diana--sorry, Deena-- Dreamgirls. But I have to give a special shout out to Kylie Mogue, who's more cerebral than sexual, and who is a long-nng gay bar favore, whether vios or the MnelliJudy's dghter has a lot of the same pip, vulnerabily, and love of gays as mama, though she's rved her own niche of "tly terrific, absolutely te" mil them bells for Liza. Gays tton to her ftive spir ("Cabaret"), her undrenchable sense of hope ("Maybe This Time"), her big-town mania ("New York, New York"; "Cy Lights"), and her lash.

ONLY A TE GAY IN IS GETTG 20/20 ON THIS GAY INS LYRICS QUIZ

MadonnaA straight man's fantasy as the Material Girl, she was also a gay man's dream, seeg as she appreciated her rabow-clive fan base, dulged "vogug, " and had some closerthanthis lbian gal pals. The anti-Judy Garland, Madonna appeals to gays bee she's not vulnerable and n't be tackled.

I'm sred a GagaMore than a Madonna mi-me, Gaga has taken advantage of the social workg skills and overall ankns of her generatn to not only sg about gay rights, but to speak about them and really make a difference the procs. Her ncerts are like gay pep ralli anchored by Gaga servg as a motivatnal speaker for LGBTs trag.

Her lbian dghter is now her son, and her fans clu so many LGBTs that, if you're at a Cher ncert and the people to eher si of you are straight, then you're fely DeGener, Rosie O'Donnell, Jodie Foster, Rachel Maddow, Gert SteI recently wrote about how gay men and lbians don't seek each other's opns enough, but when to the above ins, the gay guys notice and bow down. A male we n love, Terrence McNally has wrten gay-beloved classics like Love!

WHY DO SOME GAYS GET SO RABID OVER POP SONGSTRS DIVAS?

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.

DO GAY FANDOM HELP POP DIVAS?

” 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. “I thk the rerd dtry – by and large what’s left of – is still totally homophobic, ” she said, notg that she me out her twenti and never went to “lengths” to nceal .

Brish punk rocker Tom Robson achieved chart succs wh h songs “2-4-6-8 Motorway”, “Up Agast the Wall” and “Don’t Take No for an Answer, ” but he’ll always be immortalized for his sgalong prott anthem, “Glad to be Gay. ” Origally wrten for a 1976 London gay pri march, the song was nearly banned by the BBC 1978 – although DJ John Peel fied the stricture. Swappg out punk moralist clichés for LGBT issu, the them unrlg the group’s mic give voice to both fury and hope for gay punks.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

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Apple Podsts | Spotify | Stcher | Amazon MicThe song fg Pri month this year is Kylie Mogue’s “Padam Padam, ” a thumpg tease that’s lightly mpy and has taken on outsize importance as a gay nightlife anthem and meme-culture Mogue, 55 — a bona fi superstar abroad but more of a pop cur here — ’s one of a handful of breakthrough moments that have cemented her embrace among gay listeners. But “Padam Padam” is also part of a longer list of diva anthems — om Lady Gaga, Madonna, and many others — that bee, effect, gay this week’s Popst, a nversatn about “Padam Padam” and how songs get scribed to the gay pop non, Mogue’s not-que-stardom the Uned Stat, and how a younger generatn of pop aspirants like Ra Sawayama and Charli XCX perform their embrace of their gay fans.

There's also the theory that people, by nature, are more attracted to and enjoy thgs siar to themselv or how they perceive themselv (how a more feme gay man may like pop mic more than a mascule one). Due to the lack of gay men popular mic, a siar tra - femy - mak women the next flt, as 's always the glamoro, feme and over-the-top female artists that gay men seem to love.