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Contents:
- WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
- 5 REASONS STEVIE NICKS IS, IN FACT, A GAY IN
- THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
What Mak a ‘Gay In’?
” For the openly gay rapper/sger, Montero — spired by his birth name — is a place where one is ee to be who they are. Ricky Mart — who announced he was a “proud homosexual” 2010 after years of speculatn, cludg an famo terview wh Barbara Walters that Mart recently said still hnts him — ro a wave of succs driven largely by a loyal female fanbase eager to watch him shake is “bon-bon.
Puttg asi the song’s associatn of love wh a “crime” beg juxtaposed wh a lyric like “Greet me wh the ey of a child, ” “Father Figure” se Michael stg himself the role of a proxy parent, an trigug but perhaps predictable velopment given the prevalence of “daddy” culture the gay muny. “Seventeen” is clearly about sex, but ’s also about the kd of self-disvery that gay men of Michael’s generatn were equently prived of their formative years.
5 REASONS STEVIE NICKS IS, IN FACT, A GAY IN
Sivan, who’s 26, has said he uldn’t relate to Michael growg up, and the unapologetic, joyo portras of queer sire that he and Lil Nas X nvey their mic feel far removed om the srce, thly veiled songs about the gay experience that existed around the time they were born. Michael’s long-awaed third album, 1996’s Olr — the release of which cid wh my own sexual awakeng at the height of the AIDS epimic — rerced the myopic visn of gay life as one of danger, sadns, and misery that my generatn was tght school and by the media.
THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
Many of the gay men who survived the plague have variably suffered a form of PTSD, triggered by the naggg spicn that they unjtly ped ath while their lovers and iends perished.
Openly gay sger Adam Lambert has lled g out “an act of fiance, ” and while Michael was given ltle choice the timg and manner of his own, he was far om ntre the mic vio for “Outsi, ” released jt a few months later to promote his first greatt hs album.
After g out, Michael stantly beme a gay in, but he was a reluctant one, tormented by the ath of his first love and stgglg to rencile the fact that the massive succs he’d achieved was staed by pretendg to be someone else.