Beyoncé: New album Renaissance is tribute to her late gay uncle

Contents:

• BEYONCé’S RENAISSANCE IS A BIG, GAY MS
• BEYONCé'S 'RENAISSANCE' IS HER GAYT ALBUM YET — AND IT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED
• BEYONCé DIT RENAISSANCE TO HER GAY UNCLE AND 'FALLEN ANGELS' OF CLUB CULTURE
• BEYONCé DEDIT 'RENAISSANCE' DROP TO HER LATE GAY UNCLE JOHNNY: 'TO ALL OF THE FALLEN ANGELS'
• BEYONCé DEDIT ALBUM RENAISSANCE TO LATE GAY UNCLE
• NEW BEYONCé ALBUM RENAISSANCE IS A TRIBUTE TO HER ‘FABULO’ LATE GAY UNCLE

BEYONCé’S RENAISSANCE IS A BIG, GAY MS

) A iend said to me, "If Lemona was the album that ma the world realize Beyoncé was Black, Renaissance is the album that ma the world realize Beyoncé is a…" — well, he ed a word that uld mean a cigarette, but this se he was referrg to a certified homosexual. Homosexual. To anyone who's been payg attentn, should e as no surprise that a gay man was stmental the formatn of Beyoncé Giselle Knowl Carter.

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BEYONCé'S 'RENAISSANCE' IS HER GAYT ALBUM YET — AND IT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED

In her speech, she said Jonny was “the most fabulo gay man I’ve ever known. “Beyoncé puttg out an album that’s a love letter to the gays right as republins are attemptg to rcd the right for the LGBTQ muny to get married is why she’s the bt mic artist of our generatn, ” thor and podst host Akilah Hugh wrote on 16 tracks “Renaissance” draw om hoe, dis and bounce mic, genr that hark back to unrground ballroom culture om the 1970s.

She really prentg the last twenty years of cultural signifince black gay men have had on pop culture.

BEYONCé DIT RENAISSANCE TO HER GAY UNCLE AND 'FALLEN ANGELS' OF CLUB CULTURE

“Break My Soul, ” which has been celebrated as a gay anthem, was Beyoncé’s send llaboratn wh Big Freedia. I n no longer fd the tweet, so pardon my paraphrasg of , but of all the ial reactns to Beyoncé’s seventh stud album, “Renaissance, ” my favore is the quip that ’s a rerd for “middle-aged gay men and Black women who post Issa Rae mem.

She always snapped for the kids, but this is her gayt album to date. Homophobia and transphobia are rampant every part of society, but they are most harmful and dangero g om our own. Beyoncé has never been gayer.

Queen Bey has officially entered her gay era.

BEYONCé DEDIT 'RENAISSANCE' DROP TO HER LATE GAY UNCLE JOHNNY: 'TO ALL OF THE FALLEN ANGELS'

As one of the most -mand DJ’s the world, Dijon – a former GAY TIMES ver star – has ntuoly ed her platform to raise awarens of the stmental role queer and Black folks played dance mic. The thumpg dance anthem also featur uncreded vols om the gay rapper, who prevly llaborated wh Beyoncé on Formatn, as she chants: “Release ya anger, release ya md, release ya job, release the time, release ya tra, release the strs, release the love, fet the rt!

Beyoncé has, whout-a-doubt, looked through the GAY TIMES archive bee she’s reced another former ver star Syd, who produced Plastic Off The Sofa alongsi Kali. Syd has been outspoken about homophobia wh the hip-hop dtry. Tems and Grace Jon – ANOTHER GAY TIMES COVER STAR WE SHOULD ADD – feature on track 10, Move, a girl power stomper that se the artists fiantly “’ straight out of the jungle” to groove on the dancefloor.

Closg track Summer Renaissance sampl Donna Summer’s inic dis banger I Feel Love, which was adopted as a gay anthem upon release after nstant rotatn queer dance clubs. She praised her Uncle Jonny, who was gay and passed away due to plitns wh HIV/AIDS, scribg him as her “godmother and the first person to expose me to a lot of the mic and the culture that serve as as spiratn for this album”.

BEYONCé DEDIT ALBUM RENAISSANCE TO LATE GAY UNCLE

Syd is one of the most proment gay R&B artists, and she’s “always ma a pot to jt be gay, ” she told the Guardian last year. ” Her androgyno bety, equent appearanc at gay clubs and ristance to easy labels elevated her to queer in. “Beg tangled up, havg some of the man me, I loved that, ” she wrote her 2015 memoir of attendg gay clubs wh her brother and her own masculy.

NEW BEYONCé ALBUM RENAISSANCE IS A TRIBUTE TO HER ‘FABULO’ LATE GAY UNCLE

Moi Renee was a drag performer and traed dancer who was the toast of New York’s unrground gay club scene throughout the ’90s.

” There’s footage of the performer donng a neon-green beehive wig and a black cutout jumpsu on a lol gay talk show the ’90s. DJ MikeQ is a fixture of today’s ballroom scene, spng at gay clubs and puttg his own fluence on a beloved genre: The New York Tim 2012 said he and his ntemporari have “put a hip-hop sp on ballroom sounds and slang, while rpectg tradn.

LaBeija, fed up wh the racism she experienced drag petns n by Whe gay men – a grievance that provid the most memorable scene the 1968 documentary “The Queen” – created her own balls for Black and brown queer and trans performers. ” It’s at least the send time Bey has pulled om Summer: “Nghty Girl, ” om Beyoncé’s solo but, terpolat Summer’s “Love to Love You, ” another gay nightclub anthem.