<b>You've probably heard a lot about new gay drama <i>Cucumber</i>, which buted on Channel 4 this week.</b> But s sister show <i>Banana</i> followg younger LGBT guys is well worth a look too.
Contents:
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- BANANARAMA ON GAY BARS, LGBTQ+ FANS AND THE 80S: ‘CHER BOOTED OFF STAGE’
- BANANARAMA ON GAY BARS, LGBTQ+ FANS AND THE 80S: ‘CHER BOOTED OFF STAGE’
- THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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BANANARAMA ON GAY BARS, LGBTQ+ FANS AND THE 80S: ‘CHER BOOTED OFF STAGE’
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BANANARAMA ON GAY BARS, LGBTQ+ FANS AND THE 80S: ‘CHER BOOTED OFF STAGE’
Gay revelers (and their lucky straight iends) are wavg their arms, strikg genue pos and shamelsly sgg along to the sugary 45-year-old pop standard that’s bee synonymo wh queer nightlife.
THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
” and “Macho Man” for themselv, but there’s no way they’ll take this one om to multiple stage and screen rnatns of “Mamma Mia!, ” fabuloly garish stum om gay signer Owe Sandström and nsummately crafted songs more retroactively popular than their ’70s and early ’80s heyday, ABBA has for s been the bull’s-eye of the LGBTQ mil universe.
Ostensibly cheerful but packed wh drama and peppered wh Sndavian melancholy, the Stockholm mixed-genr quartet’s pop has blueprted the glz of untls gay and gay-iendly acts om Kylie Mogue to Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert to Lil Nas X — a sgular achievement for a band that hadn’t pleted an album 40 years. This week releasg “Voyage, ” s first new LP sce 1981 and a teaser for next year’s London ncerts featurg 3D avatars, ABBA is to many gay fans what the Rollg Ston are to straights — archetyp whose appeal transcends time, place and age.