Carly Rae Jepsen: My Relatnship Wh My Gay Fans Is A 'Mutual Loveft' | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• ‘CALL ME MAYBE’ VIO ACTOR HOLN NOWELL SAYS HE WASN’T COMFORTABLE WH HIS CHARACTER’S GAY STORYLE
• SHE BOP, WE BOP: CARLY RAE JEPSEN TALKS ‘GIFT’ OF LGBTQ FANS, GAY MAGIC & MULLET POWER
• NETFLIX TWEET ABOUT CARLY RAE JEPSEN AS A GAY IN IGN BIZARRE BATE
• CARLY RAE JEPSEN: MY RELATNSHIP WH MY GAY FANS IS A 'MUTUAL LOVEFT'
• CARLY RAE JEPSEN SAYS BEG A GAY IN IS THE ‘GIFT’ OF HER REER
• CARLY RAE JEPSEN: THE GAY TERVIEW

‘CALL ME MAYBE’ VIO ACTOR HOLN NOWELL SAYS HE WASN’T COMFORTABLE WH HIS CHARACTER’S GAY STORYLE

Queeri is a weekly lumn by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queri LGBTQ art, culture and/or inty through a personal 't get me wrong: Like any warm-blood gay man born the 1980s, I love Carly Rae Jepsen.

While I more than enthiastilly wish her a very happy 33rd birthday (a birthday she shar wh Björk, Goldie Hawn, Amanda Lepore and Cherry Jon, suggtg today really should be a stat holigay), I do feel like orr to properly serena her rise to a gay pop msiah (33 is your J year, after all), I need some rercements om the army of gay men who make my own fandom look relatively sual.

(In the wise words of the te prce of Gay Twter Louis Virtel, "It feels like only gay men n hear the words 'Carly Rae Jepsen. " They thought was odd that three other homos and I would schlep to Detro for her ncert bee her only Toronto show was openg for Hedley (y, that Hedley) at the Air Canada Centre.

SHE BOP, WE BOP: CARLY RAE JEPSEN TALKS ‘GIFT’ OF LGBTQ FANS, GAY MAGIC & MULLET POWER

Gay men love an unrdog: a pop star who's stggled publicly (thk Brney, Kha) or one who they feel has been mismanaged by their label (Tashe, Ciara). Hark, the gay angels sg! She was embracg a mographic that would evably bee her largt dience, and I uldn't have been more songs reunt stori of unrequed, fleetg and misguid love — facets of life I'm sure my gay brethren n all too faiarly relate to.

NETFLIX TWEET ABOUT CARLY RAE JEPSEN AS A GAY IN IGN BIZARRE BATE

I mean, what's more appropriate for a gaggle of homos than a track lled "Boy Problems"? Matthew PoirierGrowg up ral Nova Stia as a closeted gay boy, I got ed to hidg all of the "girly" mic I enjoyed listeng to. I polely rmed him that was arguably the weakt of all her songs and then lnched to a well-rehearsed lecture on Carly's recently released, crilly acclaimed, yet unrsold album and her rise the "gay in" ranks.

In hdsight, a "gay in"?

CARLY RAE JEPSEN: MY RELATNSHIP WH MY GAY FANS IS A 'MUTUAL LOVEFT'

Her songs celebrate the timacy and primacy of those tense emotns of forbidn sir and secret csh, known vividly by that young, closeted gay boy om ral Nova Stia.

That night, we filled a venue of about 100 unr an hour and had a le up down the block — turns out we weren't the only gays vourg the the release of Si B, Kev and I threw a followup party at a bigger venue, plete wh drag performanc and another Carly Rae cut-out to pose wh. Her ncerts — or at least the on I've been to — are filled wh two distct dienc: preteen girls who want to shout along to "I Really Like You" and queer people (mostly gay men) their 20s and 30s who n quote every letter of every song the woman has ever released.

I wasn't the only one: every gay I knew was whisperg about the album and was gobsmacked as to why they liked so exceedgly.

CARLY RAE JEPSEN SAYS BEG A GAY IN IS THE ‘GIFT’ OF HER REER

‘Call Me Maybe’ Vio Actor Holn Nowell Says He Wasn’t Comfortable Wh His Character’s Gay Storyle.

CARLY RAE JEPSEN: THE GAY TERVIEW

The succs of the song has much to do wh s now-viral vio (wh over 1 billn views on YouTube), which featur actor Holn Nowell as Jepsen’s csh, who ultimately turns out to be gay. “The fact that they had to make me gay at the end of the vio… was all very…I didn’t like beg known as the gay guy the ‘Call Me Maybe’ vio. Nowell went on to say that he believ that LGBTQ people should be allowed to love eely, but he wasn’t, and still isn’t, fortable beg asked to play a gay character.

“‘Gay for pay’ is lerally what ns the male molg dtry and I don’t get down like that. Two years ago, Jepsen and the band Tra stood up for LGBT rights by scrappg their schled appearance at a Boy Suts of Ameri event due to the anizatn's discrimatory stance on gay sut members and lears. In 2014, the Boy Suts of Ameri removed s rtrictn on gay members, and earlier this year, the anizatn lifted s ban on openly gay lears and the U.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage all 50 stat June, Jepsen posted a photo support of the cisn on Instagram:ATTN: had a chance to terview Jepsen about "Emotn, " the tentn behd her mic, and her social activism. They kd of turned agast him once he unveiled the was gay. Content occupyg her own queer wonrland (shh, she’s still our bt kept secret), Jepsen’s post-“Call Me Maybe” trajectory to gay darlghood is a strange, betiful thg nsirg how tly lic her pist bops are: amed around prismatic beats that lean to the retro pop sounds of the ’80s and ’90s, her lyrics speakg to the human ndn, the ficklens of love her tramark.