Token Gay of the Day: Harry 'Mamma Mia'
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TOKEN GAY OF THE DAY: HARRY ‘MAMMA MIA’
Is based, Harry tablish that he is gay—and the films, he’s also shown to be attracted to men. (Also, those who stick around for the after-creds scene will know that Harry has at least one more admirer this film as well—whether or not he reciprot that, a film that celebrat romance between basilly all of s characters, ’s kd of a bummer to see the anchise’s one openly gay character rema perpetually sgle. There is a fe le between a character’s prevly hidn homosexualy beg a nice twist and beg a punchle.
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For Harry, he is a gay punk stuck a picture perfect upper class liftyle. 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. ” 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.