Boy Band Members Who Are Out As Gay, Bisexual or Queer

Contents:

• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• WHAT HAPPENED TO BOYABAND? HEIGHT, AGE, NET WORTH. GAY?
• THE BOYS IN THE BAND: ENTIRELY GAY ST 'SPEAKS TO THE CHANGED WORLD'
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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

The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.

Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer.

Gay? As a 30-year-old gay man, I’ve met a lot of other queer people who also hid parts of themselv childhood.

WHAT HAPPENED TO BOYABAND? HEIGHT, AGE, NET WORTH. GAY?

Experimentg wh femy the safety of the home — even somethg as mcule as selectg girl characters vio gam and livg virly through her abily to kick ass — seems to be a shared gay experience for many of . None of this mak a person gay, of urse.

It feels remiscent of the adoratn that gay fans hold toward old Hollywood beti like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, or the pageant-style exaggeratns of femy that unrpned so much of early drag culture. Barbie has been the subject of the same gay diva worship over the years, and Gerwig’s film promently featurg LGBTQ+ actors feels like a nod to that history. Part of Barbie’s gay appeal might be that, spe beg plastic and unmalleable, she n transform herself to anythg: doctor, lawyer, judge, journalist, and vet, or whatever Mattel thks will sell the most dolls.

) As the world’s most famo doll, she has been st as both an aspiratnal hero and a rctive villa — the gay world, this polarizg dualy often turns women to ins. After I me out as gay, I spent a lot of my younger adult life reilg when people said that they “already knew.

THE BOYS IN THE BAND: ENTIRELY GAY ST 'SPEAKS TO THE CHANGED WORLD'

Now, I feel proud of my ltle gay self for havg the urage to play wh those fabulo dolls — and of my parents for buyg me the toys I wanted, not the on I was supposed to like. He was a sophomore last year at Fort Pierce Wtwood Amy.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

The Boys In The Band tells the story of a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party - before the night turns sour followg the arrival of an unved new Netflix film is an adaptatn of the 1968 play by the late US playwright Mart Crowley and featur the same st that recently starred a Broadway n of the show, earng a Tony award for bt revival. Though both gay and straight actors were dned for the productn, the ne characters the film are all played by openly gay News spoke to Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons - who plays the lead role, Michael - along wh some of his -stars and director Joe Mantello, to discs the "pretty unprecented" project. "I had such a powerful experience beg wh a group of gay men for a long, ncentrated time like this, " he said.

"I thk speaks to the changed world, I thk speaks to the fact that gay men and other people don't necsarily need que the same leral protectn of their fellow gay humans orr to get through society, thgs are a ltle b better now. The play, which has already been ma to a film once before, 1970, has a chequered history, and fell out of favour for years as was emed to promote harmful stereotyp and ternalised homophobia. However, he said Mantello nvced him to give a send read and he grew to love the character and "his tortured revelatory journey" Matt Bomer, who plays Donald, said was "pretty unprecented" to have ne openly gay men a film st, and creds Murphy for his support for the muny and "voic that need to be heard".

:: Subscribe to the Backstage podst on Apple Podsts, Google Podsts, Spotify, SpreakerMantello said the stg was not tentnal, but rather a "very fortunate seri of events" ntued: "That beg said, I thk havg an out gay st really did rm the work and took on a particular kd of tone bee of that, which is not to say that's the only way to approach this material. ""I don't feel like anybody was st bee they were gay, other than the fact that maybe whatever they were drawg on, ma them play their part better, " said Parsons. "I thk hontly, had a straight actor here or there been the right choice for a certa role this, I thk they would have gone wh that and foregone the need to make a quote unquote, all gay st.