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:
- CHRIS MELONI HAS PERFECT RPONSE TO BEG FAN'S GAY SEXUAL AWAKENG
- IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
- IS ORLANDO BLOOM GAY? HAS PORTRAYED QUEER CHARACTERS IN MANY MOVI!
- AMERI’S FAVORE RIGHT-WG MORALIST WAS A GAY PEDOPHILE WHO DIED OF AIDS
- BLOOM REVIEW: GAY SUMMER LOVE AND BAKG
- GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
CHRIS MELONI HAS PERFECT RPONSE TO BEG FAN'S GAY SEXUAL AWAKENG
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"My mom keeps tellg me Luther Vandross, Teddy Penrgrass, and Tev Campbell were gay, " the fan's tweet read, to which Campbell simply quote-tweeted and said, "Tev is, " acpanied by the rabow flag and sunglass emojis. Then Augt, durg an terview wh People Magaze's Every Day podst, the R&B star remisced about his s-long reer the mic/entertament dtry so far, while also givg listeners a rare glimpse to his personal life and nfirmg that he do intify as a gay man.
IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
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The edian, actor, and star of the NBC's The Carmichael Show me out as gay April durg his HBO Max edy show Rothaniel.
IS ORLANDO BLOOM GAY? HAS PORTRAYED QUEER CHARACTERS IN MANY MOVI!
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Though the pop sger has been open about her sexualy for years ( 2019 she told Attu that she was bisexual and an open relatnship), she took to Instagram June to celebrate Pri Month and to talk even further about her sexualy, remdg everyone that she is, fact, a queer in who is "not gay and not straight. The Brish distance swimmer and Olympian publicly me out as gay June after petg at the World Champnships Budapt.
AMERI’S FAVORE RIGHT-WG MORALIST WAS A GAY PEDOPHILE WHO DIED OF AIDS
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Mor League baseball player publicly me out as gay an emotnal Augt Instagram post. The 25-year-old athlete and former Richmond Flyg Squirrels player revealed to his fans and followers that while he is no longer playg for the team, which is part of the San Francis Giants system, he is thankful for the time he had and isn't givg up on his love of baseball, pecially as an out, gay man.
BLOOM REVIEW: GAY SUMMER LOVE AND BAKG
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The Asie Olympic gold medalist and gby player me out as a trans man an Augt vio for the Bgham Cup's Internatnal Summ Tacklg Transphobia and Homophobia Sport event. The Sttish pro footballer and Gala Fairyan Rovers player publicly me out as gay a September terview posted to his football club's official webse.
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. 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.
GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)
“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.
“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. “Of urse, would transpire many years later that there were more gay artists than the public were led to believe.
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RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
“You had a backcloth of pop mic that was absolutely full of gay people, even megastars like Freddie Mercury and Elton John, but most of them were livg some sort of closeted existence, ” Flynn says. “There was Boy Gee, Pete Burns – who was married, but who is what you would now ll queer – Morrissey sgg about ‘handsome vils’, Pet Shop Boys wh their slightly more opaque readgs of sexualy, Marc Almond om Soft Cell, Gee Michael, who was closeted even though everyone the dtry knew he was gay. As cric Aled Soto wrote of Gee Michael: “Fe wh queerns so long as the artists didn’t ask or tell, the 1980s were the last time pop stars uld wear fgerls kchen glov whout dienc assumg they were gay.
The ambiguo dg of 80s pop spend the figure of the gay male an -between space. ” Still, the signifiers weren’t yet wily unrstood terms of queerns – the 80s, cultural gayns was a novel hysteria around Aids spread, everythg changed. Author Matthew Todd tails this perd extensively his book Straight Jacket: How to Be Gay and Happy.
” This was perhaps when the missg lk between queer nightclub pop athetics and the act of gay sex fally clicked to place.