The 80s put the gay man ont and centre of pop. Then me the Aids crisis – and three s of monisatn, disrd and displacement. Now, wh Troye Sivan leadg a new wave of gay stars, has change tly arrived?
Contents:
- 'ANYONE OVER 30 BELONGS TO ME - BISEXUAL, MALE, FEMALE, GAY, WHATEVER'
- IS ADAM ANT GAY?
- ADAM ANT WIKI, MARRIED, WIFE OR GAY AND NET WORTH
'ANYONE OVER 30 BELONGS TO ME - BISEXUAL, MALE, FEMALE, GAY, WHATEVER'
* adam ant gay *
Bisexual, male, female, gay, whatever. Troye Sivan is the hottt gay pop star the world.
IS ADAM ANT GAY?
For his legn lennial and Generatn Z fans, he’s among the first artists of their lifetime to ankly explore gay sex pop – notably on his recent send album, Bloom – and they’ve hailed him as a trailblazer. Why has taken two s for the gay male experience to reclaim s place pop?
The wds of the gay liberatn movement had been blowg strong for a : queer black men such as Sylvter had been at the heart of dis and the children of Bowie were g of age jt as MTV, a new medium that valued the high-energy visuals of queer nightclubs, was male pop artists were prevly few and far between: Ltle Richard’s lyrics about anal sex were cut om Tutti Ftti, and only took Bowie’s arm draped over the shoulr of Mick Ronson on Top of the Pops 1972 to send middle England reelg. Come the 80s though, acts such as Bronski Beat and Frankie Go to Hollywood beme “the gay hero of the ”, says Pl Flynn, thor of Good As You: 30 Years of Gay Bra. “There were stars the 80s who were pletely transparent about their sexualy om the start, and whose gayns was absolutely tegral to their mic.
”Synth-pop group Bronski Beat’s but sgle, Smalltown Boy, about a gay man leavg his homophobic home town, charted globally 1984.
ADAM ANT WIKI, MARRIED, WIFE OR GAY AND NET WORTH
(The number for the London Gay Swchboard was etched to the nout groove. “At the time we were jt three gay guys who started a band – we didn’t feel like part of any particular movement, ” says Steve Bronski.