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Contents:
- THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
- QUEEN ELIZABETH’S FAVORE SONG IS A FABULO GAY ANTHEM
- BJöRN ULVAS TERVIEW: ‘ABBA RETURNED TO MIC BEE OF GAY MUNY’
THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
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QUEEN ELIZABETH’S FAVORE SONG IS A FABULO GAY ANTHEM
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.
Back when Donna Summer reigned as disputable dancg queen, ABBA didn’t get much gay club play, not even you-know-what.
BJöRN ULVAS TERVIEW: ‘ABBA RETURNED TO MIC BEE OF GAY MUNY’
Y, there were exceptns: Larry Levan — the fluential gay Black DJ at New York’s legendary and largely Black/LGBTQ Paradise Garage — adored Cher’s “Take Me Home. ” But gay DJs and their dienc mostly favored unrground divas and obscure orchtral matros they disvered and popularized, not succsful pop acts plucked om AM changed the early ’80s when the U.
” “The first time he did that, was a mistake, ” rells Robbie Llie, DJ veteran of New York Cy’s the Sat, the ultimate ’80s gay dis. ”Like Llie’s siarly beloved mix of Jimmy Ruff’s “Hold on to My Love, ” Rodriguez’s ABBA transformatn appeared only on Dis, a gay-owned subscriptn remix service.