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ARE DEPECHE MO GAY? DO THEY HAVE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA?
In the small mds of young homophob, most terpretatns erred on the si of man-on-man dungeon sex ssns filled wh dgs, oils, and punishment. The latter song only fed mors that the band was gay by featurg a crackg whip sound as part of the beat.
Judgg om the huge crowds at their 1988 US Mic for the Mass tour, the gay rap didn’t much dimish the band’s creasg popular appeal, but did threaten to curtail me. As ludicro as the “gay prep school” rep was, didn’t change the facts: wearg a Depeche Mo shirt at Brophy was as socially damng a move as holdg your buddy’s hand. To be labeled gay this environment is to potentially be ostracized om the entire stunt body: some 1029 stunts, around 243 my class.
When they buted 1980, they looked as if they’d jt returned om Gay Pri Week Washgton DC: leather pants, leather shirts, leather biker pta ps, aviator glass. Depeche Mo ’89 were the clean urban mal, which many peopl’ mds meant gay urban mal, metrosexual long before the term.