From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond.
Contents:
- “RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- VOGUEMADONNATRACK 12 ON I’M BREATHLS (MIC OM AND INSPIRED BY THE FILM DICK TRACY) PRODUCED BYSHEP PETTIBONE & MADONNAMADONNA’S 1990 SMASH H “VOGUE” WAS SPIRED BY THE DANCE OF THE SAME NAME AND HELPED MAKE THE QUEEN OF POP A GAY IN. VOGUG WAS POPULAR NEW YORK’S UNRGROUND GAY… READ MORE MAR. 20, 19901 VIEWER218.3K VIEWS56 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSPORTUGUêSVOGUE LYRICS[PRODUCED BY SHEP PETTIBONE AND MADONNA][INTRO]STRIKE A POSESTRIKE A POSEVOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)[VERSE 1]LOOK AROUND, EVERYWHERE YOU TURN IS HEARTACHEIT'S EVERYWHERE THAT YOU GO (LOOK AROUND)YOU TRY EVERYTHG YOU N TO PETHE PA OF LIFE THAT YOU KNOW (LIFE THAT YOU KNOW)WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS AND YOU LONG TO BESOMETHG BETTER THAN YOU ARE TODAYI KNOW A PLACE WHERE YOU N GET AWAYIT'S LLED A DANCE FLOORAND HERE'S WHAT 'S FOR, SO[CHOS]COME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MIC (MOVE TO THE MIC)HEY, HEY, HEYCOME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOW (GO WH THE FLOW)YOU KNOW YOU N DO YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ALL YOU NEED IS YOUR OWN IMAGATNSO E THAT'S WHAT 'S FOR (THAT'S WHAT 'S FOR)GO SI, FOR YOUR FT SPIRATNYOUR DREAMS WILL OPEN THE DOOR (OPEN UP THE DOOR)IT MAK NO DIFFERENCE IF YOU'RE BLACK OR WHEIF YOU'RE A BOY OR A GIRLIF THE MIC'S PUMPG WILL GIVE YOU NEW LIFEYOU'RE A SUPERSTARY, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE, YOU KNOW [CHOS]COME ON VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GROOVE TO THE MIC (GROOVE TO THE MIC)HEY, HEY, HEYCOME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOW (GO WH THE FLOW)YOU KNOW YOU N DO [BRIDGE]BETY'S WHERE YOU FD NOT JT WHERE YOU BUMP AND GRD SOUL IS THE MILTHAT'S WHERE I FEEL SO BETIFULMAGIL, LIFE'S A BALL, SOGET UP ON THE DANCE FLOOR[CHOS]VOGUE (VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MIC (MOVE TO THE MIC)HEY, HEY, HEYCOME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOW (GO WH THE FLOW)YOU KNOW YOU N DO [REA]VOGUE (VOGUE)BETY'S WHERE YOU FD (MOVE TO THE MIC)VOGUE (VOGUE)BETY'S WHERE YOU FD (GO WH THE FLOW)[VERSE 3]GRETA GARBO, AND MONROEDIETRICH AND DIMAGGMARLON BRANDO, JIMMY DEANON THE VER OF A MAGAZEGRACE KELLY, HARLOW, JEANPICTURE OF A BETY QUEENGENE KELLY, FRED ASTAIREGGER ROGERS DANCE ON AIRTHEY HAD STYLE, THEY HAD GRACERA HAYWORTH GAVE GOOD FACELREN, KATHARE, LANA TOOBETTE DAVIS, WE LOVE YOULADI WH AN ATTUFELLAS THAT WERE THE MOODDON'T JT STAND THERE, LET'S GET TO STRIKE A POSE, THERE'S NOTHG TO VOGUEVOGUE[OUTRO]OOOH, YOU'VE GOT TOLET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MICOOOH, YOU'VE GOT TO JTLET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOWOOOH, YOU'VE GOT TOVOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE, VOGUE)16EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
- DEAR VOGUE, ‘GAY’ IS NOT A PHASEAIRBRUSHEDTHOANDS WANT THE MAGAZE TO APOLOGIZE AFTER THE THOR OF A CARA DELEVGNE PROFILE SUGGTS HER BEG GAY IS JT A ‘PHASE.’EY SHIREUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:34AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 25, 2015 6:36PM EDT SUZANNE PLUNKETT/RTERSSOME 13,000 PEOPLE WANT ANNA WTOUR TO APOLOGIZE—AND HAS NOTHG TO DO WH HER SUMMER SELECTNS.DAYS AFTER THE JULY ISSUE OF VOGUE H THE STANDS, THE MAGAZE’S PROFILE OF MOL/ACTRS/INSTAGRAM-SENSTATN CARA DELEVGNE HAS SPARKED A FULL-ON BACKLASH.ROB HASKELL’S PROFILE ON DELEVGNE ONLY VOT A UPLE OF SMALL PARAGRAPHS TO HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND HER CURRENT RELATNSHIP WH SGER ANNIE CLARK (BETTER KNOWN AS ST. VCENT).BUT THE TREATMENT OF DELEVGNE’S BISEXUALY IS BOTH NFG AND NSCENDG. “HER PARENTS SEEM TO THK GIRLS ARE JT A PHASE FOR CARA, AND THEY MAY BE RRECT,” HASKELL WR WHOUT EVER ACTUALLY DIRECTLY QUOTG DELEVGNE’S PARENTS OR HER ON THE TOPIC.HASKELL PROCEEDS TO QUOTE DELEVGNE’S REFERENCE TO HER TUMULTUO RELATNSHIPS WH WOMEN: “WOMEN ARE WHAT PLETELY SPIRE ME, AND THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN MY DOWNFALL. I HAVE ONLY BEEN HURT BY WOMEN, MY MOTHER FIRST OF ALL.”THEN, HE ADDS HIS OWN MENTARY:“WHEN I SUGGT TO CARA THAT TO TST A MAN, SHE MIGHT HAVE TO REVISE AN OLD AND STUBBORN IA OF HERS—THAT WOMEN ARE PERENNIALLY TROUBLED AND THEREFORE ONLY WOMEN WILL ACCEPT HER—HER SE SAYS SHE NCES THE POT.”IT’S UNCLEAR OM THE TEXT WHY HE NFINTLY READS DELEVGNE’S SE AS A SIGN OF NCSN.WHAT IS CLEAR ARE THE REASONS WHY SOME REARS ARE PRETTY PEEVED BY HASKELL’S, AND ERGO VOGUE’S, TREATMENT OF DELEVGNE’S SEXUALY.VOGUE DID NOT RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S REQUT FOR MENT BY THE TIME OF PUBLITN.“PEOPLE ARE QUICK TO ASSUME QUEER WOMEN’S INTI ARE A ‘PHASE’ AND TO REFE TO REGNIZE THE IMPORTANT RELATNSHIPS THEIR LIV—AN ATTU WHICH N E PRSN, RULT FAI REJECTG THEIR DGHTERS (OR FORCG THEM TO ABIVE NVERSN ‘THERAPY’), AND EVEN PUT YOUNG WOMEN AT RISK OF SUICI,” WR JULIE RODRIGUEZ, THE WOMAN WHO STARTED THE ONLE PETN RPONSE TO THE PIECE AT CARE2.RODRIGUEZ’S PLEA TO GET VOGUE TO “ISSUE AN APOLOGY TO THE LGBT MUNY FOR PUBLISHG THIS SENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE TERVIEW” HAS STCK A CHORD.IT’S MORE THAN 13,000 STRONG. CARE2 DID NOT RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S EFFORTS TO GET TOUCH WH RODRIGUEZ.THE FAMOLY ICY WTOUR IS UNLIKELY TO PUBLICLY VE AND APOLOGIZE, PECIALLY WHEN HASKELL’S PROFILE IS, ADMTEDLY, FAR OM A BLATANT TIRA AGAST THE LGBT MUNY.IN THE NTEXT OF THE LONG AND SHAMEFUL HISTORY OF LGBT MEDIA ABE AND MISTREATMENT, HASKELL’S HANDFUL OF SENTENC ARE HARDLY THE MOST VRLIC OR NIGRATG.BUT SCRIBG A PERSON’S HOMOSEXUALY AS A “PHASE” IS ONE OF THE MOST FAIAR AND DISMISSIVE THGS MANY LGBTS HEAR WHEN G OUT OR TALKG ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY, OM LOVED ON WHOSE SUPPORT THEY HAVE SOUGHT.WEEKS AFTER S CONDé NAST STABLEMATE, VANY FAIR, HAD THE TRAILBLAZG CALYN JENNER ON S VER, S TREATMENT OF DELEVGNE MAK VOGUE LOOK TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH.AT BT, THE PUBLITN SEEMS LIKE AN UN-LISTENG, UNAWARE PARENT SHGGG OFF THEIR TEEN CHILD’S G OUT AS A FAD.AT WORST, VOGUE APPEARS HOMOPHOBIC, TREATG DELEVGNE’S SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH WOMEN AS A TEMPORARY, FLIGHTY FANCY OF HER YOUTH (READ: IMMATURY) AND DISTST OF MEN.DELEVGNE IS OPEN WH HASKELL ABOUT HER FEELGS.“I THK THAT BEG LOVE WH MY GIRLIEND IS A BIG PART OF WHY I’M FEELG SO HAPPY WH WHO I AM THE DAYS,” SHE SAYS. “AND FOR THOSE WORDS TO E OUT OF MY MOUTH IS ACTUALLY A MIRACLE.”DELEVGNE, SAYS HASKELL, “FELT NFED BY HER SEXUALY AS A CHILD, AND THE POSSIBILY OF BEG GAY IGHTENED HER.”“IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO ACCEPT THE IA, UNTIL I FIRST FELL LOVE WH A GIRL AT 20 AND REGNIZED THAT I HAD TO ACCEPT ,” SHE SAYS, ADDG SHE ONLY HAS EROTIC DREAMS ABOUT MEN.IF SHE EVER DO FD A GUY TO FALL LOVE WH, DELEVGNE SAYS, “I’D WANT TO MARRY HIM AND HAVE HIS CHILDREN. AND THAT SR ME TO ATH BEE I THK I’M A WHOLE BUNCH OF CRAZY, AND I ALWAYS WORRY THAT A GUY WILL WALK AWAY ONCE HE REALLY, TLY KNOWS ME.”DELEVGNE MAY HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT RELATNSHIPS WH MEN AND WOMEN, BUT HOW DID HASKELL EXTRAPOLATE OM THOSE ACUNTS THAT WAS HER LBIAN, RATHER THAN STRAIGHT, SEXUALY THAT WOULD BE THE “PHASE” SHE WAS GOG THROUGH?OR, ED, THAT SHE VIEWED ANY ASPECT OF HER SEXUALY AS A PHASE?THE “’S ONLY A PHASE” PRUMPTN THE VOGUE ARTICLE SPEAKS TO A VERY REAL PROBLEM FOR LGBTS. NO MATTER THE HUGE LEGAL AND SOCIAL ADVANC OF RECENT YEARS, MANY STILL HAVE THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATNS TREATED AS “JT A PHASE,” A TEMPORARY ABERRATN BEFORE THEY FALLY “SETTLE DOWN” TO HETEROSEXUALY.I KNOW ANECDOTALLY OM IENDS THAT IS BOTH TRATG AND HURTFUL TO BE TOLD THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, THEIR CHOICE WHO THEY LOVE IS, SIMPLY A “PHASE.”BY 2015, SHOULD BE WELL TABLISHED THAT SEXUALY IS PLEX AND FLUID, AND SHOULD BE EQUALLY WELL TABLISHED THAT G TO TERMS WH OUR SEXUALY N BE PLEX AND DIFFICULT—AS DELEVGNE SAYS WAS FOR HER THE PROFILE.BUT IS VALIER AND SENSIVE TO BLHELY AME DELEVGNE’S BISEXUALY AS A FLEETG FAD. VOGUE SHOULD KNOW BETTER, NOT THAT ONE SHOULD BANK ON THE PUBLITN ISSUG AN APOLOGY.AFTER ALL, WTOUR STILL HASN’T APOLOGIZED FOR THE KIMYE VER. EY SHIRE
- JASON GAY
“RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
* vogue gay *
Ined, his ovre reads like a gay g-of-age story: there are the nods to boyhood and g out the trilogy of Blue Neighborhood mic vios; reflectns on the nocence of early sexual experienc “Seventeen” and “Bloom”; he pots to the body-image challeng of existg as a gay man “STUD”; to heartbreak “The Good Si” and the ache for love of “Angel Baby”; and now the wds of liberatn, sexual eedom, and nfince “Rh. ” There’s also his film work, as the angsty gay teenager Boy Erased, or the high schooler who fds out he’s been exposed to HIV Three Months. Judgg by “Rh, ” wh s betifully grty Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio (cludg an already Twter-viral keg stand and Sivan dancg around a jockstrap), he may very well be up celebrate the release of “Rh, ” and the announcement of his third stud album, Vogue spoke to Sivan about gayns, partyg, queer muny, and the importance of mic vios.
Photo: Stuart Weff / Courty of Universal Mic GroupVogue: I have to start by askg about the name of the song, which many of on the gay rner of the ter are assumg is a reference to poppers, given the well-known brand also named Sivan: I mean, sure. Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem. We n be gay after the month of June.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Thoands want the magaze to apologize after the thor of a Cara Delevgne profile suggts her beg gay is jt a ‘phase.’ * vogue gay *
I gus lookg back at my childhood was evable that I would one day be drawn to fashn as a for unrstandg that I was gay, wasn’t really somethg that I figured out until my late teens, but then lookg back at my childhood all ma sense, and I realized that I had actually had csh on many of my bt iends. Even ocsnally after I began datg men, I ntued to sleep wh women off and on, and while fely gay, I am someone for whom sex is an exprsn of affectn and love.
I was very, very lucky: Comg to terms wh my sexualy was a smooth transn for me, and I owe that to the stggle that all of the gay men and women who me before me had to endure. My parents were very acceptg, and New York, beg gay or bisexual was nsired kd of ol—or at least was wh my circle of iends. This, of urse, all changed when AIDS began to ravage the gay is amazg how far we have e our culture.
VOGUEMADONNATRACK 12 ON I’M BREATHLS (MIC OM AND INSPIRED BY THE FILM DICK TRACY) PRODUCED BYSHEP PETTIBONE & MADONNAMADONNA’S 1990 SMASH H “VOGUE” WAS SPIRED BY THE DANCE OF THE SAME NAME AND HELPED MAKE THE QUEEN OF POP A GAY IN. VOGUG WAS POPULAR NEW YORK’S UNRGROUND GAY… READ MORE MAR. 20, 19901 VIEWER218.3K VIEWS56 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSPORTUGUêSVOGUE LYRICS[PRODUCED BY SHEP PETTIBONE AND MADONNA][INTRO]STRIKE A POSESTRIKE A POSEVOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)[VERSE 1]LOOK AROUND, EVERYWHERE YOU TURN IS HEARTACHEIT'S EVERYWHERE THAT YOU GO (LOOK AROUND)YOU TRY EVERYTHG YOU N TO PETHE PA OF LIFE THAT YOU KNOW (LIFE THAT YOU KNOW)WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS AND YOU LONG TO BESOMETHG BETTER THAN YOU ARE TODAYI KNOW A PLACE WHERE YOU N GET AWAYIT'S LLED A DANCE FLOORAND HERE'S WHAT 'S FOR, SO[CHOS]COME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MIC (MOVE TO THE MIC)HEY, HEY, HEYCOME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOW (GO WH THE FLOW)YOU KNOW YOU N DO YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ALL YOU NEED IS YOUR OWN IMAGATNSO E THAT'S WHAT 'S FOR (THAT'S WHAT 'S FOR)GO SI, FOR YOUR FT SPIRATNYOUR DREAMS WILL OPEN THE DOOR (OPEN UP THE DOOR)IT MAK NO DIFFERENCE IF YOU'RE BLACK OR WHEIF YOU'RE A BOY OR A GIRLIF THE MIC'S PUMPG WILL GIVE YOU NEW LIFEYOU'RE A SUPERSTARY, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE, YOU KNOW [CHOS]COME ON VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GROOVE TO THE MIC (GROOVE TO THE MIC)HEY, HEY, HEYCOME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOW (GO WH THE FLOW)YOU KNOW YOU N DO [BRIDGE]BETY'S WHERE YOU FD NOT JT WHERE YOU BUMP AND GRD SOUL IS THE MILTHAT'S WHERE I FEEL SO BETIFULMAGIL, LIFE'S A BALL, SOGET UP ON THE DANCE FLOOR[CHOS]VOGUE (VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MIC (MOVE TO THE MIC)HEY, HEY, HEYCOME ON, VOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE)LET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOW (GO WH THE FLOW)YOU KNOW YOU N DO [REA]VOGUE (VOGUE)BETY'S WHERE YOU FD (MOVE TO THE MIC)VOGUE (VOGUE)BETY'S WHERE YOU FD (GO WH THE FLOW)[VERSE 3]GRETA GARBO, AND MONROEDIETRICH AND DIMAGGMARLON BRANDO, JIMMY DEANON THE VER OF A MAGAZEGRACE KELLY, HARLOW, JEANPICTURE OF A BETY QUEENGENE KELLY, FRED ASTAIREGGER ROGERS DANCE ON AIRTHEY HAD STYLE, THEY HAD GRACERA HAYWORTH GAVE GOOD FACELREN, KATHARE, LANA TOOBETTE DAVIS, WE LOVE YOULADI WH AN ATTUFELLAS THAT WERE THE MOODDON'T JT STAND THERE, LET'S GET TO STRIKE A POSE, THERE'S NOTHG TO VOGUEVOGUE[OUTRO]OOOH, YOU'VE GOT TOLET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MICOOOH, YOU'VE GOT TO JTLET YOUR BODY GO WH THE FLOWOOOH, YOU'VE GOT TOVOGUE (VOGUE, VOGUE, VOGUE)16EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
By Conner IvJuly 3, 2022“In New York, Beg Gay Be a Total Non-Issue. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend.
The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.
But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.
DEAR VOGUE, ‘GAY’ IS NOT A PHASEAIRBRUSHEDTHOANDS WANT THE MAGAZE TO APOLOGIZE AFTER THE THOR OF A CARA DELEVGNE PROFILE SUGGTS HER BEG GAY IS JT A ‘PHASE.’EY SHIREUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:34AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 25, 2015 6:36PM EDT SUZANNE PLUNKETT/RTERSSOME 13,000 PEOPLE WANT ANNA WTOUR TO APOLOGIZE—AND HAS NOTHG TO DO WH HER SUMMER SELECTNS.DAYS AFTER THE JULY ISSUE OF VOGUE H THE STANDS, THE MAGAZE’S PROFILE OF MOL/ACTRS/INSTAGRAM-SENSTATN CARA DELEVGNE HAS SPARKED A FULL-ON BACKLASH.ROB HASKELL’S PROFILE ON DELEVGNE ONLY VOT A UPLE OF SMALL PARAGRAPHS TO HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND HER CURRENT RELATNSHIP WH SGER ANNIE CLARK (BETTER KNOWN AS ST. VCENT).BUT THE TREATMENT OF DELEVGNE’S BISEXUALY IS BOTH NFG AND NSCENDG. “HER PARENTS SEEM TO THK GIRLS ARE JT A PHASE FOR CARA, AND THEY MAY BE RRECT,” HASKELL WR WHOUT EVER ACTUALLY DIRECTLY QUOTG DELEVGNE’S PARENTS OR HER ON THE TOPIC.HASKELL PROCEEDS TO QUOTE DELEVGNE’S REFERENCE TO HER TUMULTUO RELATNSHIPS WH WOMEN: “WOMEN ARE WHAT PLETELY SPIRE ME, AND THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN MY DOWNFALL. I HAVE ONLY BEEN HURT BY WOMEN, MY MOTHER FIRST OF ALL.”THEN, HE ADDS HIS OWN MENTARY:“WHEN I SUGGT TO CARA THAT TO TST A MAN, SHE MIGHT HAVE TO REVISE AN OLD AND STUBBORN IA OF HERS—THAT WOMEN ARE PERENNIALLY TROUBLED AND THEREFORE ONLY WOMEN WILL ACCEPT HER—HER SE SAYS SHE NCES THE POT.”IT’S UNCLEAR OM THE TEXT WHY HE NFINTLY READS DELEVGNE’S SE AS A SIGN OF NCSN.WHAT IS CLEAR ARE THE REASONS WHY SOME REARS ARE PRETTY PEEVED BY HASKELL’S, AND ERGO VOGUE’S, TREATMENT OF DELEVGNE’S SEXUALY.VOGUE DID NOT RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S REQUT FOR MENT BY THE TIME OF PUBLITN.“PEOPLE ARE QUICK TO ASSUME QUEER WOMEN’S INTI ARE A ‘PHASE’ AND TO REFE TO REGNIZE THE IMPORTANT RELATNSHIPS THEIR LIV—AN ATTU WHICH N E PRSN, RULT FAI REJECTG THEIR DGHTERS (OR FORCG THEM TO ABIVE NVERSN ‘THERAPY’), AND EVEN PUT YOUNG WOMEN AT RISK OF SUICI,” WR JULIE RODRIGUEZ, THE WOMAN WHO STARTED THE ONLE PETN RPONSE TO THE PIECE AT CARE2.RODRIGUEZ’S PLEA TO GET VOGUE TO “ISSUE AN APOLOGY TO THE LGBT MUNY FOR PUBLISHG THIS SENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE TERVIEW” HAS STCK A CHORD.IT’S MORE THAN 13,000 STRONG. CARE2 DID NOT RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S EFFORTS TO GET TOUCH WH RODRIGUEZ.THE FAMOLY ICY WTOUR IS UNLIKELY TO PUBLICLY VE AND APOLOGIZE, PECIALLY WHEN HASKELL’S PROFILE IS, ADMTEDLY, FAR OM A BLATANT TIRA AGAST THE LGBT MUNY.IN THE NTEXT OF THE LONG AND SHAMEFUL HISTORY OF LGBT MEDIA ABE AND MISTREATMENT, HASKELL’S HANDFUL OF SENTENC ARE HARDLY THE MOST VRLIC OR NIGRATG.BUT SCRIBG A PERSON’S HOMOSEXUALY AS A “PHASE” IS ONE OF THE MOST FAIAR AND DISMISSIVE THGS MANY LGBTS HEAR WHEN G OUT OR TALKG ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY, OM LOVED ON WHOSE SUPPORT THEY HAVE SOUGHT.WEEKS AFTER S CONDé NAST STABLEMATE, VANY FAIR, HAD THE TRAILBLAZG CALYN JENNER ON S VER, S TREATMENT OF DELEVGNE MAK VOGUE LOOK TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH.AT BT, THE PUBLITN SEEMS LIKE AN UN-LISTENG, UNAWARE PARENT SHGGG OFF THEIR TEEN CHILD’S G OUT AS A FAD.AT WORST, VOGUE APPEARS HOMOPHOBIC, TREATG DELEVGNE’S SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH WOMEN AS A TEMPORARY, FLIGHTY FANCY OF HER YOUTH (READ: IMMATURY) AND DISTST OF MEN.DELEVGNE IS OPEN WH HASKELL ABOUT HER FEELGS.“I THK THAT BEG LOVE WH MY GIRLIEND IS A BIG PART OF WHY I’M FEELG SO HAPPY WH WHO I AM THE DAYS,” SHE SAYS. “AND FOR THOSE WORDS TO E OUT OF MY MOUTH IS ACTUALLY A MIRACLE.”DELEVGNE, SAYS HASKELL, “FELT NFED BY HER SEXUALY AS A CHILD, AND THE POSSIBILY OF BEG GAY IGHTENED HER.”“IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO ACCEPT THE IA, UNTIL I FIRST FELL LOVE WH A GIRL AT 20 AND REGNIZED THAT I HAD TO ACCEPT ,” SHE SAYS, ADDG SHE ONLY HAS EROTIC DREAMS ABOUT MEN.IF SHE EVER DO FD A GUY TO FALL LOVE WH, DELEVGNE SAYS, “I’D WANT TO MARRY HIM AND HAVE HIS CHILDREN. AND THAT SR ME TO ATH BEE I THK I’M A WHOLE BUNCH OF CRAZY, AND I ALWAYS WORRY THAT A GUY WILL WALK AWAY ONCE HE REALLY, TLY KNOWS ME.”DELEVGNE MAY HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT RELATNSHIPS WH MEN AND WOMEN, BUT HOW DID HASKELL EXTRAPOLATE OM THOSE ACUNTS THAT WAS HER LBIAN, RATHER THAN STRAIGHT, SEXUALY THAT WOULD BE THE “PHASE” SHE WAS GOG THROUGH?OR, ED, THAT SHE VIEWED ANY ASPECT OF HER SEXUALY AS A PHASE?THE “’S ONLY A PHASE” PRUMPTN THE VOGUE ARTICLE SPEAKS TO A VERY REAL PROBLEM FOR LGBTS. NO MATTER THE HUGE LEGAL AND SOCIAL ADVANC OF RECENT YEARS, MANY STILL HAVE THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATNS TREATED AS “JT A PHASE,” A TEMPORARY ABERRATN BEFORE THEY FALLY “SETTLE DOWN” TO HETEROSEXUALY.I KNOW ANECDOTALLY OM IENDS THAT IS BOTH TRATG AND HURTFUL TO BE TOLD THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, THEIR CHOICE WHO THEY LOVE IS, SIMPLY A “PHASE.”BY 2015, SHOULD BE WELL TABLISHED THAT SEXUALY IS PLEX AND FLUID, AND SHOULD BE EQUALLY WELL TABLISHED THAT G TO TERMS WH OUR SEXUALY N BE PLEX AND DIFFICULT—AS DELEVGNE SAYS WAS FOR HER THE PROFILE.BUT IS VALIER AND SENSIVE TO BLHELY AME DELEVGNE’S BISEXUALY AS A FLEETG FAD. VOGUE SHOULD KNOW BETTER, NOT THAT ONE SHOULD BANK ON THE PUBLITN ISSUG AN APOLOGY.AFTER ALL, WTOUR STILL HASN’T APOLOGIZED FOR THE KIMYE VER. EY SHIRE
Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.
” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual. ), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”.
) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver. Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck.
JASON GAY
As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on. Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns.
While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! Here, fd a list of all the new novels, memoirs, say llectns, and other LGBTQ+ books we’re lookg forward to spendg time wh this Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (May 31)Bad Gays: A Homosexual HistoryWh their new book, wrer Huw Lemmey and amic Ben Miller are brgg their fascatg—and very funny—ep div to the liv of the most dastardly queer people history om the podst to the page.
Bad Gays offers a rivetg look back at historil figur whom the prent-day LGBTQ+ muny might be ls eager to reclaim, om outright murrers like Andrew Cunanan and Aileen Wuornos to more sidly sister figur like J. Kgdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran (June 7)One of gay lerature’s most teemed tans, Andrew Holleran, returns this month wh his first novel 16 years, The Kgdom of Sand. While Holleran’s cult classic, Dancer om the Dance, is remembered for the illic thrills of s hedonistic roller-aster ri through gay life 1970s New York (durg the ee-spired moment after Stonewall and before the AIDS crisis), The Kgdom of Sand, Holleran turns his gimlet eye to the aftermath of that perd.