Troye Sivan has spoken about his early difficulti g to terms wh beg gay, a recently published terview
Contents:
- “RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
- IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
- FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
- 18 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GAY JEWISH POP STAR TROYE SIVAN
- TWENTY-YEAR-OLD, OPENLY GAY TROYE SIVAN IS THE NEXT PRCE OF POP
“RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
* troye sivan is gay *
I wanted to start gog out and gog to gay clubs and meetg boys, and I wanted to wre songs about love that were te and genue. " and "Bloom" have ma him a buddg gay in. Sivan me out publicly as gay three years after g out to his fay.
On 7th Augt 2013, Sivan me out publicly as gay, three years after he’d e out to his fay. Sivan revealed that he’d known for a long time that he was gay. Sce g out, Sivan has engaged all manner of discsns about beg gay.
Later the terview, Troye said he would love to have taken Timothée Chalamet’s place the gay romance Call Me By Your Name.
IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
He also appreciated the reprentatn of gay people the film. Ined, his ovre reads like a gay g-of-age story: there are the nods to boyhood and g out the trilogy of Blue Neighborhood mic vios; reflectns on the nocence of early sexual experienc “Seventeen” and “Bloom”; he pots to the body-image challeng of existg as a gay man “STUD”; to heartbreak “The Good Si” and the ache for love of “Angel Baby”; and now the wds of liberatn, sexual eedom, and nfince “Rh. ” There’s also his film work, as the angsty gay teenager Boy Erased, or the high schooler who fds out he’s been exposed to HIV Three Months.
Judgg by “Rh, ” wh s betifully grty Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio (cludg an already Twter-viral keg stand and Sivan dancg around a jockstrap), he may very well be up celebrate the release of “Rh, ” and the announcement of his third stud album, Vogue spoke to Sivan about gayns, partyg, queer muny, and the importance of mic vios.
FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
Photo: Stuart Weff / Courty of Universal Mic GroupVogue: I have to start by askg about the name of the song, which many of on the gay rner of the ter are assumg is a reference to poppers, given the well-known brand also named Sivan: I mean, sure. Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem.
18 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GAY JEWISH POP STAR TROYE SIVAN
We n be gay after the month of June. Frh off shock-llar torture on The Idol, Troye Sivan has jt released his new song “Rh, ” a tle meant to voke both the feelg of poppers and dancg wh someone hot, along wh an acpanyg mic vio burstg wh gay smut. So we cid to get one gay who remembers the release of Kylie Mogue’s “Lootn” and another gay who is too young to remember the release of “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” to bate whether this track is actually a Bop or Flop.
Y, has a Village People qualy to , but I also thk ’s tertg to see what happens when you streamle the mp of our gay tracks of yore and rce them down to one sgular emotn (horny).
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD, OPENLY GAY TROYE SIVAN IS THE NEXT PRCE OF POP
It’s a return to body fascism and emaciatn — two gay tast that actually never went out of style.
It feels like part of the reason Troye miss out on the spotlight is bee he’s gay and unwillg to create the kd of watered-down mp that his queer peers are g to ga attentn (hi, Sam Smh). If he’s never gog to be an arena artist, he might as well make thgs gayer, sexier, and weirr than they would.