Gay Archiv - Rollg Stone

Contents:

• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• ONE TOWN’S WAR ON GAY TEENS
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
• IS TOM CISE GAY? ROLLG STONE FOUNR REVEALS THE 'SUPER-SECRETIVE' REASON WHY HE THKS SO
• ROLLG STONE CONFIRMS: ULTRA-RICH GAY ACTIVIST IS TARGETG ‘WICKED’ CHRISTIANS
• ALL POSTS TAGGED "GAY"

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

Clark has been at the foreont of that shift and creds her iendship wh Shane McAnally — one of Nashville’s most succsful songwrers, who is also gay — wh givg her the nfince to pursue a solo reer. “Though a lot of people that work the dtry support me om a distance, there’s a difference between that and actually takg some steps to ph that further and sign some [gay artists], ” Homan says. While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today.

ONE TOWN’S WAR ON GAY TEENS

Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era. Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi . Much of Erasure’s disgraphy embodi not precisely celebratory gay pri but gay romantic realy – a ankns about the emotnal, if not overtly sexual, liv of gay men toward the end of the 20th century.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

So when out Brish duo Andy Bell and Vce Clarke’s plative yet buoyant sgle beme a worldwi h gay-uniendly 1988, felt quietly revolutnary to anyone the know. The Bay Area gay punk pneers found a ht of mastream fame when they toured wh Green Day on their Dookie n 1994, but was their sexy lyrics and who-giv-a-fuck attu that enared them to a generatn of queer kids – before that term was even fashnable.

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As both voutly straight edge and proudly homosexual, their substance-ee stance ma them stand out a time when bars, clubs and other toxitg spac prised the few safe havens for LGBTQ people.

‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

When I me to the pot where I was actively gay took a b of time to get fortable and e out but I felt ready for whatever me my way.

IS TOM CISE GAY? ROLLG STONE FOUNR REVEALS THE 'SUPER-SECRETIVE' REASON WHY HE THKS SO

” Although only a actn of the band’s succs Europe translated to the Uned Stat, “Take Your Mama” remas a staple gay bars across the untry.

ROLLG STONE CONFIRMS: ULTRA-RICH GAY ACTIVIST IS TARGETG ‘WICKED’ CHRISTIANS

Butler later told The New York Tim that “Bld” relled “growg up a gay kid, my immediate fay and social group rejectg me, and askg why I was born to this suatn. The tr would later make headl after the 2014 Grammy Awards, where their landmark performance of the song would soundtrack a mass weddg between 33 gay and straight upl. ” Sgg “No fay is safe when I sashay, ” he slks to a nference room and gyrat his hips for a room full of sus – a sly riposte to the legns of homophob who weaponize their fears agast LGBTQ people, om wh board rooms, Congrs, or out on the streets.

ALL POSTS TAGGED "GAY"

Nashville native Cys is an unniable pop and rock star, fond of sgg vers by the Cranberri and Soundgarn, but her gut list at the Ryman was 100 percent untry: Brothers Osborne, Ltle Big Town, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, and the gay masked wboy Orville Peck. Bee the very ia of a gay untry star once seemed like a fantasy — the assumptn beg that untry mic’s fan base was overwhelmgly nservative and perhaps even bigoted.

Homan, who’d left his ral Kansas home at 18 to e to Nashville to pursue both mic and an tn, hadn’t imaged there would be a time when the untry-mic dtry would be welg to gay artists.