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Contents:
- BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
- ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS
BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
None of the band was gay, fact, and Prit was actually a quiet man who disliked the limelight. I mean, a gay Hler.
The effect wasn’t androgyno so much as eply disncertg: Prit was, wrer Julie Burchill’s memorable asssment, “built like a hod-rrier” and looked “like a navvy who’d stolen all your makp” stum, meanwhile, seemed to go beyond entertament to a very proto-punk sire to shock: on the 1973 TOTP Christmas special, he mimed Block Bter drsed as, his words, “a gay Nazi”, plete wh swastika armband, uniform and full makp: on another ocsn, he took to the stage wearg a sequned jumpsu wh the words “FUCK YOU” wrten on the back.
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.
ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS
Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. Emergg om the burgeong gay ghetto of Seventi San Francis Sylvter was one of the first openly gay artists to have a h rerd when 'Dance (Dis Heat)' ma the US top 20 1978. Unapologetilly a cross-drsg gay man his falsetto voice and flamboyant persona ma him both the face and voice of gay dis.
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