Todrick Hall: the multi-talent on gay anthems, mentors & new mic :: Bay Area Reporter

Contents:

• BLACK AND GAY AMERI: WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE TODRICK HALL
• TODRICK HALL TALKS 'SNDAL,' BRAD GORKI GETS FIERCE MTV'S GAY POWER PLAYERS SHOW 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'
• IS TODRICK HALL GAY? TTH REVEALED HERE!
• TODRICK HALL DATG, PROUD GAY MAN'S BOYIEND DISAPPOTS - TURNS SAVAGE
• WHO IS TODRICK HALL’S GAY PARTNER DAVID BOM?
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE TODRICK HALL? A BLACK AND GAY IN AMERI.
• TODRICK HALL RELLS BEG AN OPENLY GAY MALE CHEERLEAR HIGH SCHOOL, REVEALS HOW TAYLOR SWIFT’S ‘YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN’ CAME TOGETHER: WATCH
• IS TODRICK HALL GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• TODRICK HALL: THE MULTI-TALENT ON GAY ANTHEMS, MENTORS & NEW MIC
• GAY EXCELLENCETODRICK HALLTRACK 9 ON ALGORHYTHM JUN. 1, 20221 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSGAY EXCELLENCE LYRICS[VERSE 1]THERE IS A NOISE HEARD AROUND THE WORLDBABY 'S A FABULO ONE (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)THEY ARE THE BOYS THAT DON'T NEED A GIRLTO LET THEIR LEGACY LIVE ON (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)[PRE-CHOS]AND WE MOVE LIKE THE WAV ON A BODY OF WATERCUTE THE FACE, BUT THE BODI ARE HOTTERMOVE OUT THE WAY IF YOU HATERS ARE BOTHERED'CSE WE KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WE ARE[CHOS]TAKG OVER ONE POSE AT A TIMEWE'RE ALIVE AND WE DANCE AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESO STT THE MOMENT IS MEH THE LIGHTS AND WE DANCE, AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESTT (GAY EXCELLENCE)GROOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)WORK (GAY EXCELLENCE)MOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)DANCE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SLAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)POSE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SASHAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]SO E STEP TO THE LIGHTPROUD OF THE SK YOU'RE (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)WHETHER YOU'RE BLACK, BROWN, PURPLE, OR WHEI PROMISE YOU LOVE'S GONNA W AGA AND AGA[PRE-CHOS]AND WE MOVE LIKE THE WAV ON A BODY OF WATERCUTE THE FACE, BUT THE BODI ARE HOTTERMOVE OUT THE WAY IF YOU HATERS ARE BOTHERED'CSE WE KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WE ARE[CHOS]TAKG OVER ONE POSE AT A TIME (YEAH, ONE POSE AT A TIME)WE'RE ALIVE AND WE DANCE AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESO STT THE MOMENT IS ME (WHOO, THE MOMENT IS ME)H THE LIGHTS AND WE DANCE, AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESTT (GAY EXCELLENCE)GROOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)WORK (GAY EXCELLENCE)MOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)DANCE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SLAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)POSE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SASHAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)[BRIDGE]BLOSSOM HOMOSAPIENS, HAVE BLOOMED FOR GENERATNSPHENOMENALLY BRILLIANT MDS CREATE TERR SIGNSTHE LGO THAT THEY E IS OURSWE MAKE THE MOV THAT MAKE THE STARSWE PHOTOGRAPH, WE SHAPE THE HAIRWE MAKE THE GOWNS THAT DIVAS WEARWE FIGHT THE FIGHT, WE W THE RACEWE PAT THE LIPS, WE BEAT THE FACEOUR LEGACY'S NO MYSTERYWE LEAVE OUR HEELS HISTORYGLTER NNG THROUGH OUR GENWE'RE DONE WH DANCG THE WGSSO STT TO THE PRENT TENSEAND BASK YOUR GAY EXCELLENCENOW WORK[CHOS]ONE POSE AT A TIMEWE'RE ALIVE AND WE DANCE AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESO STT THE MOMENT IS ME (WOO)H THE LIGHTS AND WE DANCE, AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESTT (GAY EXCELLENCE)GROOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)WORK (GAY EXCELLENCE)MOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)DANCE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SLAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)POSE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SASHAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHEN DID TODRICK HALL RELEASE “GAY EXCELLENCE”?WHO WROTE “GAY EXCELLENCE” BY TODRICK HALL?ALGORHYTHM (2022)TODRICK HALL1. ALGORHYTHM INTRO2. DANCE FOREVER3. CALL YOU4. HIGHER5. TOMORROW6. SORRY BARBIE7. PRE MADONNA8. BREATH9. GAY EXCELLENCE10. SKIPPING ON STARS11. TOMORROW (DANCE VERSN)CREDSWRTEN BYTODRICK HALLRELEASE DATEJUNE 1, 2022TAGSPOPDANCE-POPDANCELGBTQ+EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

BLACK AND GAY AMERI: WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE TODRICK HALL

As a black gay man the entertament dtry, he is ed to pavg his own yellow brick road. “The thg that mov me the most about Todrick is that he reprents the thg that my generatn fought for, which is a black man who uld be gay and out the mic dtry, ” says Hall’s iend Billy Porter, a Broadway veteran who has garnered recent attentn for his role on FX’s Pose and his extravagant red-rpet looks.

“They lghed my gay ass out of the bs the mid-’90s. “From day one, Todrick has always been very hont wh me about his life and his experienc as a gay man of lor, ” Swift tells Billboard over email. “When I did what everybody else told me I was supposed to do, when I did the way the homophob told me I was supposed to do , when I tried to be mascule enough for the world to love me, I was broke, bankpt and unemployed, ” says Porter.

Early on his reer, a black artistic director he was workg wh approached him and said, “ ‘The worst thg you uld ever be this world is a black gay man, ’ ” rells Hall — an unhelpful warng about the uphill battl he might face entertament. Though the “Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels” vio has the same cktail of attu, tense choreography and snappy tchphras many pop divas are celebrated for, Hall’s peers have suggted that racism and ternalized homophobia wh the LGBTQ muny still pose obstacl for artists like him tryg to sell those same thgs back to them. Last year, durg a panel at the Billboard-The Hollywood Reporter Pri Summ Wt Hollywood, RuPl’s Drag Race alum and mician Trixie Mattel said, “If a whe blond woman was dog what Todrick Hall did, gays would fall the fuck out” — be really imprsed — and Hall says he n’t disagree.

TODRICK HALL TALKS 'SNDAL,' BRAD GORKI GETS FIERCE MTV'S GAY POWER PLAYERS SHOW 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'

Even though he -executive-produced the “You Need To Calm Down” vio, which clud roundg up celebry meos om the lik of Laverne Cox and the st of Queer Eye, there was no shortage of social media posts dismissg Hall for beg “thirsty” for the A-list and allowg himself to be the “token gay black iend” for other celebri.

Hall jumped to her fense and, a tweet that SB Projects employe would immediately and vehemently refute, wrote that he had left the pany “a long time ago” and believed Brn was “homophobic” and “an evil person [whose] only ncern is his wealth. “I genuely attempted several tim to talk to him om a place of love, but wh my wounds om beg black and gay Ameri, and his ego, was difficult to get through.

IS TODRICK HALL GAY? TTH REVEALED HERE!

“If you reprent a gay artist and don’t give them the same amount of attentn and rourc as you do your other non-gay artists, ” says Hall, “you and your team should take a moment and nsir the reasons why.

TODRICK HALL DATG, PROUD GAY MAN'S BOYIEND DISAPPOTS - TURNS SAVAGE

Todrick said he was out as gay when he was 15 years old.

WHO IS TODRICK HALL’S GAY PARTNER DAVID BOM?

Is Todrick Hall GayTodrick Dated Boyiend Jse PattisonThere was a romance between Todrick and Jse Pattison 2015.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE TODRICK HALL? A BLACK AND GAY IN AMERI.

You n check the…Is Jalen Ramsey Gay? Is Jeremy Renner Gay: What Do He Say About His S*xualy? Is Todrick Hall GayIt’s possible that Todrick is also unmarried and dited only to his profsn.

Todrick Hall Publicly Com Out As Gay In 2013! The versatile entertaer is an openly gay man the current days, but thgs weren't the same years back. As any closeted gay, he too stggled to e terms wh his Hall grew up playg wh dolls, sgg choirs and dancg ballet.

Growg up a nservative Christian fay who had a negative view towards gay people unfold many stggl for Hall to e out of the closet.

TODRICK HALL RELLS BEG AN OPENLY GAY MALE CHEERLEAR HIGH SCHOOL, REVEALS HOW TAYLOR SWIFT’S ‘YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN’ CAME TOGETHER: WATCH

At the age of 15, he had enough and troduced himself as gay to his fay, but stead of acceptance, he faced nial om his fay. Disver: Reggie Yat Gay Rumors After Girliend Turned Fiance Rift - Real Reason RevealedBut the stggle didn't end there for Hall. This straed his relatnship wh his first boyiend Gareth at the age of 19 as he was too sred to reveal his love to the world for his after years of stggl wh his inty, 2013 Hall fally set himself ee and is loud and proudly gay now.

IS TODRICK HALL GAY OR STRAIGHT?

Takg to Twter, he stated that he was gay and reerated his cisn to be himself wh #WHOIBE. Officially Gay: Todrick proudly tweets claimg himself as gay (Photo: Todrick Hall's Twter)In an terview wh People magaze, he has stated that he had always been actg as straight and Youtube had given him the urage to live like who he was realy--a proud gay man.

Todrick Hall's Datg History Is As Open As His SexualyThe openly gay entertaer is as open of his relatnships as he is about his has openly tweeted about his relatnships wh his former boyiends Myl Urquhart (2013) and Jse Pattson (2015-2017).

TODRICK HALL: THE MULTI-TALENT ON GAY ANTHEMS, MENTORS & NEW MIC

David Bom is bt known as the gay partner of Todrick Hall.

"The letter ntu to claim that the LGBTQ+ muny has given more phback on the show than any other also asked people to foc on queer reprentatn, sayg "the gays are creatg petns to get a queer show taken off the air, stead of focg on the other 165 hours of the week when reprentatn is eher lackg or nonexistent. "A few days later, Hall returned for another 4-page handwrten letter where he addrsed ments sayg "we don't want to see a bunch of rich, f, entled privileged gay men. "The ments, to Hall, beg the qutn, "Why are we thrilled to watch rich Kardashians or Real Hoewiv, but we only want to watch gays be unrdogs, not well off, not too nfint?

GAY EXCELLENCETODRICK HALLTRACK 9 ON ALGORHYTHM JUN. 1, 20221 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSGAY EXCELLENCE LYRICS[VERSE 1]THERE IS A NOISE HEARD AROUND THE WORLDBABY 'S A FABULO ONE (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)THEY ARE THE BOYS THAT DON'T NEED A GIRLTO LET THEIR LEGACY LIVE ON (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)[PRE-CHOS]AND WE MOVE LIKE THE WAV ON A BODY OF WATERCUTE THE FACE, BUT THE BODI ARE HOTTERMOVE OUT THE WAY IF YOU HATERS ARE BOTHERED'CSE WE KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WE ARE[CHOS]TAKG OVER ONE POSE AT A TIMEWE'RE ALIVE AND WE DANCE AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESO STT THE MOMENT IS MEH THE LIGHTS AND WE DANCE, AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESTT (GAY EXCELLENCE)GROOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)WORK (GAY EXCELLENCE)MOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)DANCE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SLAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)POSE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SASHAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]SO E STEP TO THE LIGHTPROUD OF THE SK YOU'RE (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH)WHETHER YOU'RE BLACK, BROWN, PURPLE, OR WHEI PROMISE YOU LOVE'S GONNA W AGA AND AGA[PRE-CHOS]AND WE MOVE LIKE THE WAV ON A BODY OF WATERCUTE THE FACE, BUT THE BODI ARE HOTTERMOVE OUT THE WAY IF YOU HATERS ARE BOTHERED'CSE WE KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WE ARE[CHOS]TAKG OVER ONE POSE AT A TIME (YEAH, ONE POSE AT A TIME)WE'RE ALIVE AND WE DANCE AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESO STT THE MOMENT IS ME (WHOO, THE MOMENT IS ME)H THE LIGHTS AND WE DANCE, AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESTT (GAY EXCELLENCE)GROOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)WORK (GAY EXCELLENCE)MOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)DANCE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SLAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)POSE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SASHAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)[BRIDGE]BLOSSOM HOMOSAPIENS, HAVE BLOOMED FOR GENERATNSPHENOMENALLY BRILLIANT MDS CREATE TERR SIGNSTHE LGO THAT THEY E IS OURSWE MAKE THE MOV THAT MAKE THE STARSWE PHOTOGRAPH, WE SHAPE THE HAIRWE MAKE THE GOWNS THAT DIVAS WEARWE FIGHT THE FIGHT, WE W THE RACEWE PAT THE LIPS, WE BEAT THE FACEOUR LEGACY'S NO MYSTERYWE LEAVE OUR HEELS HISTORYGLTER NNG THROUGH OUR GENWE'RE DONE WH DANCG THE WGSSO STT TO THE PRENT TENSEAND BASK YOUR GAY EXCELLENCENOW WORK[CHOS]ONE POSE AT A TIMEWE'RE ALIVE AND WE DANCE AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESO STT THE MOMENT IS ME (WOO)H THE LIGHTS AND WE DANCE, AND WE MOVE WH GAY EXCELLENCESTT (GAY EXCELLENCE)GROOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)WORK (GAY EXCELLENCE)MOVE (GAY EXCELLENCE)DANCE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SLAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)POSE (GAY EXCELLENCE)SASHAY (GAY EXCELLENCE)EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHEN DID TODRICK HALL RELEASE “GAY EXCELLENCE”?WHO WROTE “GAY EXCELLENCE” BY TODRICK HALL?ALGORHYTHM (2022)TODRICK HALL1. ALGORHYTHM INTRO2. DANCE FOREVER3. CALL YOU4. HIGHER5. TOMORROW6. SORRY BARBIE7. PRE MADONNA8. BREATH9. GAY EXCELLENCE10. SKIPPING ON STARS11. TOMORROW (DANCE VERSN)CREDSWRTEN BYTODRICK HALLRELEASE DATEJUNE 1, 2022TAGSPOPDANCE-POPDANCELGBTQ+EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

"Hall further tailed a vio om a lol WeHo gay club turng off The Real Friends durg the premiere to be met wh cheerg om the crowd. Hall equat the reactn to boog off Tmp and qutns why the muny is at odds wh self when everyone else is agast , rponse to diversy, Hall adms there uld be more on the show, but that there wasn't a large pool of gay celebri to beg wh. He ends the letter by sayg, "Fun fact: The average annual earngs for gay men the U.