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• NO BCE SPRGSTEEN IS NOT GAY, INSTEAD HE MARRIED TWICE
• BCE SPRGSTEEN CELEBRAT MARV GAYE, JACKIE WILSON, AND THE COMMODOR ‘NIGHTSHIFT’ MIC VIO
• BCE SPRGSTEEN ROCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• IS BCE SPRGSTEEN GAY?
• BCE SPRGSTEEN: EXPLORG RUMOURS OF BEG GAY
• BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• BCE SPRGSTEEN STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN (PHOTO)

NO BCE SPRGSTEEN IS NOT GAY, INSTEAD HE MARRIED TWICE

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BCE SPRGSTEEN CELEBRAT MARV GAYE, JACKIE WILSON, AND THE COMMODOR ‘NIGHTSHIFT’ MIC VIO

When Indiana passed a barbaro law thorizg bs owners to discrimate agast gay ctomers, the backlash om entreprenrs, universi, entertaers, and cy uncils me so harshly and rapidly that ernor Mike Pence begdggly amend the homophobic Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act to remove language permtg anti-LGBT discrimatn. If Sprgsteen is able to expede the livery of jtice, he n add to his imprsively long rume of brave advocy for gay rights, datg back to earlier days of his reer when support for gay and people was often an anathema.

To bat what Sprgsteen labeled the “veiled racism and homophobia of the anti-dis movement, ” he wrote “Protectn” for Donna Summer.

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BCE SPRGSTEEN ROCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

Not only do the vio assign equal attentn and value to heterosexual and homosexual relatnships, apprais the love between gay people acrdg to the same standards as do Sprgsteen’s own romance. The energy and tensy of gay attractn and affectn is no different – better or worse – than the lt and love Sprgsteen shar wh his girliend. " The film tells the story of a gay man facg employment discrimatn after his diagnosis wh HIV.

“My Lover Man” is a gay love song. The tth seems that jt as Sprgsteen has wrten songs the voice of women, he narrat “My Lover Man” as a character – a gay character whose sexualy is not odd or immoral, but entirely normal and worthy of ser emotnal treatment. In a 1996 terview wh the Advote, Sprgsteen discs early iendships he enjoyed wh gay men after high school, and how he aimed to leverage his “very straight image” and “big guy dience” to make appear safe for heterosexual men to align wh gay rights.

Sprgsteen’s bravery of polil and mil iendship wh gay Amerins had an unquantifiable, but real fluence.

IS BCE SPRGSTEEN GAY?

His fort wh gay symbolism rmed me, as a straight young man workg overtime to imprs all the pretty girls, that homophobia was not an ditor of toughns or hipns. Sprgsteen had the nfince his own sexualy and masculy to sg the voice of a gay man, and to kiss his male iend on stage.

Those straight men who feel that the stabily of their inty requir hatred and harassment of homosexuals mt suffer om such severe self-doubt, almost mak their liv seem more sad than offensive. “Tougher Than The Rt” rerced the lson that mascule strength and pri rult om personal strength, but also sensivy toward the sir of women, while songs like “Streets of Philalphia” and “My Lover Man” stcted that gay people – their human value and the legimacy of their love – are equal to me. Bce is far om gay; some might argue he is one of the straightt men alive.

A quick poke around the Inter reveals as much: the amic texts readg his work as “homoerotic or queerly suggtive, ” as Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel wr; the “We’re Here and We’re Queerg Bce Sprgsteen” roundup at one of the longt-nng s for queer women, Autostraddle; the queer wrer Tennsee Jon’s short story llectn Deliver Me From Nowhere, based on the album Nebraska; and of urse, the many, many queer Bce Sprgsteen z, om Bee the Boss Belongs to Us to Butt Sprgsteen. Wrer Muna Mire once asked Twter, “Can anyone name a straight man that qualifi as [a gay in]?

BCE SPRGSTEEN: EXPLORG RUMOURS OF BEG GAY

Is his extreme butchns, so practiced and so precise that he might as well have learned om the olst lbian at a gay bar?

Straight upl at our school were bondg over study ssns on the quad, not close lls wh gay-bashg.

BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rabow” has been a gay anthem for s. If “Somewhere Over the Rabow” is a gay mil theater anthem about the dream of a eer existence, “Born to Run” is unqutnably s rock ’n’ roll tw. Article ntents Abstract Referenc Abstract Bce Sprgsteen's body of work ntas a strikg number of songs wh homoerotic or queerly suggtive ntent.

BCE SPRGSTEEN STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN (PHOTO)

Moreover, his live performanc often ph the lims of the homosocial, ‘queerg’ onstage relatnships through everythg om lgerg kiss wh the late saxophonist Clarence Clemons to timate microphone sharg wh guarist and real-life bt iend Stevie Van Zandt.

I exame how Sprgsteen's queer lyril ntent and performative acts ntrast crilly wh domant readgs of his hypermascule, ‘all-Amerin’ image, and suggt that Sprgsteen's regular ployment of homosocial and homoerotic imagery both lyrics and performance – far om beg an exceptn to his more mastream persona – actually nstute a kd of queer athetic val to, and nsistent wh, his artistic visn of love and muny.

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