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Contents:
- WHY ARE GAY MEN DRAWN TO DIVAS LIKE CHER, LIZA, BETTE, BARBRA, DIANA AND OTHERS?
- CHER HAS HAD A POWERFUL AFFY WH GAY MEN SCE SHE WAS NE-YEARS-OLD. HERE’S WHY
- WHY ARE GAY MEN OBSSED WH POWERFUL WOMEN?
- CHER EXPLAS WHY SHE HAS LOVED GAY PEOPLE SCE SHE WAS 9-YEARS-OLD
- WHY IS BRNEY SPEARS SO APPEALG TO GAY FANS?
- GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
- CHER RELLS THE HER FIRST INTERACTN WH GAY PEOPLE NEW INTERVIEW
WHY ARE GAY MEN DRAWN TO DIVAS LIKE CHER, LIZA, BETTE, BARBRA, DIANA AND OTHERS?
Cher revealed that she relat to gay people "bee gay people don't feel like they f and I never felt like I f ". * why do gay men love cher *
Gay men were tradnally very margalized and opprsed – generally by straight men and the stutns they ntrolled. There were very, very few out gay men to intify wh entertament, and we were reluctant to openly intify wh our opprsors, so we were drawn to another group of outsirs: women. Through their choic of songs and rol, the divas uld munite one thg to their gay dienc, while still beg nventnal enough to fd “mastream” succs.
CHER HAS HAD A POWERFUL AFFY WH GAY MEN SCE SHE WAS NE-YEARS-OLD. HERE’S WHY
She was still elementary school when she realized that gay people "are, like, the olt." * why do gay men love cher *
Cher revealed that she relat to gay people “bee gay people don’t feel like they f and I never felt like I f ”, an terview wh CNN‘s Christiane Amanpour. In the terview, she relled her troductn to the “gay world” when she was ne-years-old. Cher has long been a gay in.
WHY ARE GAY MEN OBSSED WH POWERFUL WOMEN?
The night June 1969 that gay men fought police raidg the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village marked the begng of wir acceptance of male homosexuals. * why do gay men love cher *
Cher told CNN: “It was very unlike me to the begng have a problem wh Chaz beg gay and disappeared like that. Once I moved to New York and met more queer people, I quickly realized that my experience wasn’t unique; most of my gay iends had also grown up worshippg famo women. A viral tweet by edian Caleb Hearon said bt: “when gay boys turn 13 years old the universe assigns them one woman workg entertament.
CHER EXPLAS WHY SHE HAS LOVED GAY PEOPLE SCE SHE WAS 9-YEARS-OLD
If there is one characteristic shared by the powerful women that gay men love, ’s that they all rporate bold — borrle theatril — cloth and performanc to their personas. “I spect that celebry culture has bee so important to many queer folx bee theater has long been a home for the ‘others’ our culture, ’” Ashera DeRosa, a licensed marriage and fay therapist who works wh LGBTQ+ clients, tells many gay men, that otherns is often tied to our exprsns of femy, a tra that’s equently punished by our peers and fay whenever we dare to exprs .
“In hip-hop, men always ma women an accsory, but [the artists] me and turned that around, ” Jonathan gay men are faiar wh the feelg of beg the butt of everyone’s joke and the feelg that we have to work twice as hard to be taken serly — and most of cred a powerful woman entertament wh givg the urage to bt out of the closet.
For many gay men my generatn, that person was Lady Gaga.
WHY IS BRNEY SPEARS SO APPEALG TO GAY FANS?
’”When gay men uldn’t exprs ourselv the way we wanted, we sent the women out as our stand-s, and they, turn, paid homage to queer people who didn’t have the privilege of such ’s easy to fet that many gay men were volved curatg those celebri’ athetics, too; ’s a symbtic relatnship.
Durg tim when gay men uldn’t exprs ourselv the way we wanted, we sent the women out as our stand-s, and they, turn, paid homage to queer people who didn’t have the privilege of such my md, no one exemplifi this obssn more tensely than my iend Ashton Brooks, a 32-year-old producer who liv Denver.
”Whether ’s bee of their bold embrace of femy, their support for the queer muny, or the memori they evoke, powerful women entertament will always be the backbone of the gay muny. Cher explaed why she felt such a tie wh gay people sce she was ne-years-old an terview wh CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
Amanpour asked Cher if havg a transgenr son – Chaz Bono – ma her “sympathetic to the LGBT muny, ” and Cher said that she liked gay people gog all the way back to when she was ne-years-old.
CHER RELLS THE HER FIRST INTERACTN WH GAY PEOPLE NEW INTERVIEW
“That was my begng to the gay world, ” she said, “and we were always like this bee gay people don’t feel like they f , and I never felt like I f . When I found out Chaz was gay, I didn’t go through that easily; when I found out Chaz was [transng]… except we talked about a lot, actually.
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