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Contents:

• BACKSTREET BOYS' A.J. MCLEAN TALKS GAY BAND MEMBERS, BEG A 'FAG HAG'
• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• MY GAY INTERVIEW WH A BACKSTREET BOY: ‘I’M THE FAG HAG’
• EXPLORG RUMORS TO DETERME WHICH BACKSTREET BOY IS GAY – BS ROUNDUPS
• GAYS ROANOKE ED TO HI WHO THEY WERE — UNTIL A ADLY BAR SHOOTG
• WHY THIS BACKSTREET BOY HOP HIS DGHTERS ARE GAY
• AJ MCLEAN: THE GAY TERVIEW
• MAN OPENS FIRE ON GAY BAR
• GAYS ROANOKE ED TO HI WHO THEY WERE — UNTIL A ADLY BAR SHOOTG

BACKSTREET BOYS' A.J. MCLEAN TALKS GAY BAND MEMBERS, BEG A 'FAG HAG'

The Backstreet Boys were at a drag show when they first realized they had a gay followg.

I was bi myself, and that was when we first knew that we had a big gay followg, " A.

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

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MY GAY INTERVIEW WH A BACKSTREET BOY: ‘I’M THE FAG HAG’

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"I, personally, am tryg to get more and more volved wh the gay and lbian movement, very much so.

EXPLORG RUMORS TO DETERME WHICH BACKSTREET BOY IS GAY – BS ROUNDUPS

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GAYS ROANOKE ED TO HI WHO THEY WERE — UNTIL A ADLY BAR SHOOTG

There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.

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My grandfather knew gay clubs were big money.

WHY THIS BACKSTREET BOY HOP HIS DGHTERS ARE GAY

Our dad, Carme Vara, ran gay nightclubs Boston and Provcetown.

He also owned a place Provcetown lled the Crown & Anchor, which was a hotel, gay bar, and baret for female impersonators.

AJ MCLEAN: THE GAY TERVIEW

Gay clubs ma good bs sense. Gay people played hard, they drank hard, and they danced hard and had more money to spend than the straight crowd.

He wanted to be a whe male gay club. I learned, livg through the civil rights and the gay rights eras, how to al wh . The club wanted to mata a gay, male-domated bar.

I was om Tennsee—wh all those ty gay bars—and, sudnly, I’m standg si a three-story club. RUSSELL BOWEN-YOUNGBLOOD: Atlanta gay nightlife photographer Bowen-Youngblood was a Backstreet ctomer om 1994 to 2004. They told me was a gay club, but that didn’t matter to me.

MAN OPENS FIRE ON GAY BAR

It was my first experience si a gay club. It wasn’t like I was attracted to gay men.

GAYS ROANOKE ED TO HI WHO THEY WERE — UNTIL A ADLY BAR SHOOTG

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