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• ROBYN GAY
• IS ROBYN GAY?

ROBYN GAY

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IS ROBYN GAY?

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The rt of my Skype nversatn wh Robyn was spent talkg about why she thks ’s important artists unrstand the queer referenc they e their work, the precise reason she’s proud “Dancg On My Own” beme a gay anthem, and how her current post-tomboy femy is, for her, “almost like draggg. There’s a tradn wh the gay muny gravatg to mic that is melodic and melancholy, maybe the same (song). You n hear ABBA, you n hear the tradn of Brish gay bands and gay artists that have always champned this way of sgg about emotns, whether ’s like Erasure, or even Queen.

There’s a tradn there wh gay mic culture that I always felt was somethg that I nnected to. Some of my parents’ iends were gay and some of them were people I liked, but I don’t know if I n say that I had an unrstandg of the gay muny through my parents.