Boy Band Members Who Are Out As Gay, Bisexual or Queer

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Early rounds of what is known as “bar hoppg” wh my bt iend. As we s down one of the many gay bars sttered around central London, I spot a photograph hangg om the walls of this popular tablishment: “What is an obvly buffed-up...

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BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox.

There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd. Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. On a few of the album’s tracks, Act -wrote wh gay micians Sam Sparro and Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters.

His sophomore release om that year, Hi Nothg, was a lovely surprise. And whether he’s kept a low profile sce then bee he’s livg his life or bee ’s hard for an pennt mician to get tractn this world, he’s still the pg ballaer wh which a young gay man might fall love.

NATIVE AMERINS, EUROPEANS, AND THE GAY IMAGATN

Yet back the ’70s was slim pickgs for openly gay artists, and we all knew how to read an artist that ma a joke about beg “bi-astal” (he even named an album that) while throwg himself across the stage like a hyperactive chore on a Broadway belter like “I Go to R. Long before I knew they were all gay (except for Cdy), I loved them for their crazy sound. The late blu sger was well-nnected and openly gay the ’60s — he had a brief relatnship wh Dave Davi of The Kks.

They’ve taken on gay social media apps (“Personal” om 2006 and “Lookg” om 2019”) and love to ms around wh gay clichés (“But I’m a Top”).

Currently on her mea culpa tour (for, amongst other thgs, supportg Tmp) and tryg to get the foc back on her mic, this mouthy bisexual MC threw away a lot of goodwill by turng her reer to a spectacle of wrong-footedns — her e of slurs agast gay men has been wily reported.

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