Their mic was the voice of an LGBT generatn, now the band has their 16th album, new lov, and a world tour. Andy Bell, the gay member of the two-man band, talks about mic, life, and datg drama.
Contents:
- ERASURE ONTMAN ANDY BELL OPENS UP ABOUT BEG AN 80S GAY IN AHEAD OF THEIR 2022 WORLD TOUR
- ERASURE IS BACK WH A NEW ALBUM AND A STILL SEXY GAY ROCK STAR
ERASURE ONTMAN ANDY BELL OPENS UP ABOUT BEG AN 80S GAY IN AHEAD OF THEIR 2022 WORLD TOUR
Erasure's pneerg gay ont man Andy Bell celebrat love and nostalgia wh the group's new album. * is the band erasure gay *
The fierce queer polics of Bronski Beat and the barely-d sex-posivy of Frankie Go To Hollywood ma some noise on the US charts the early 1980s while Elton John still prented as bisexual, but really wasn’t until Erasure explod onto the scene a uple years later that an open and fiant gay voice uld be heard at your high school dance. While the gay dience is more sought-after than ever, openly-gay pop stars are still srce. Lady Gaga intifi as bi, Sam Smh as gay and non-bary, but beyond them, the last or so, only Lil Nas X has managed to crack the top ten.
We talked about the queer idols of their youths, the evolutn of the gay pop star, the importance of reprentatn and llaboratn, and creativy the year of Covid. Along the way, some dish, some dance, and a solid primer on 20th century gay culture.
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ERASURE IS BACK WH A NEW ALBUM AND A STILL SEXY GAY ROCK STAR
That’s all a b far as mic go, we had the Amerin artists, we had Sylvter and of urse Dive, and gay-intified people like Grace Jon.
But the UK, we had Frankie Go To Hollywood, which was more hype than was a gay thg.
I hadn't really heard of him, but I knew “Glad To Be Gay, ” and my uncle had one of his rerds, “2, 4, 6, 8 Motorway. I remember readg a poster London probably about '83 or '84 that he was dog a Gays Rock semar London. So he said he wore a pk triangle on his lapel, and when anybody asked him about , he said, "Oh, you know, that's the emblem of gay liberatn.