Gay Mic Ins: Gee Michael, Lil Nas X, Troye Sivan, Adam Lambert – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• HOLLY JOHNSON – GAY IN
• HOW THE GAY IN MIC HAS EVOLVED SCE MARIAH CAREY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

Ricky Mart — who announced he was a “proud homosexual” 2010 after years of speculatn, cludg an famo terview wh Barbara Walters that Mart recently said still hnts him — ro a wave of succs driven largely by a loyal female fanbase eager to watch him shake is “bon-bon. Puttg asi the song’s associatn of love wh a “crime” beg juxtaposed wh a lyric like “Greet me wh the ey of a child, ” “Father Figure” se Michael stg himself the role of a proxy parent, an trigug but perhaps predictable velopment given the prevalence of “daddy” culture the gay muny.

Sivan, who’s 26, has said he uldn’t relate to Michael growg up, and the unapologetic, joyo portras of queer sire that he and Lil Nas X nvey their mic feel far removed om the srce, thly veiled songs about the gay experience that existed around the time they were born. Michael’s long-awaed third album, 1996’s Olr — the release of which cid wh my own sexual awakeng at the height of the AIDS epimic — rerced the myopic visn of gay life as one of danger, sadns, and misery that my generatn was tght school and by the media.

Many of the gay men who survived the plague have variably suffered a form of PTSD, triggered by the naggg spicn that they unjtly ped ath while their lovers and iends perished.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Openly gay sger Adam Lambert has lled g out “an act of fiance, ” and while Michael was given ltle choice the timg and manner of his own, he was far om ntre the mic vio for “Outsi, ” released jt a few months later to promote his first greatt hs album. After g out, Michael stantly beme a gay in, but he was a reluctant one, tormented by the ath of his first love and stgglg to rencile the fact that the massive succs he’d achieved was staed by pretendg to be someone else. Birthday: 25 June 1963 Born In: East Fchley, London, England Died On: 25 December 2016 Throughout his reer, Gee Michael won numero prtig awards, beg one of the most rated gay micians of all time.

The song spent 19 weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 – meanwhile, Lil Nas X me out as gay, which ma him the first artist to do so while beg on the top of the chart.

" The rock star went viral for a homoerotilly charged performance of her song "Massctn, " layered wh pop sger Dua Lipa's "One Kiss, " at the 2019 Grammy Awards. In a 2004 terview wh Butt magaze, Stipe said, "I thk there's a le drawn between gay and queer, and for me, queer scrib somethg that's more clive of the gray areas. She me out as gay durg an terview wh The Advote 1992 while promotg the album "Ingénue"; the song "Constant Cravg, " om the same album, has bee a queer anthem.

HOLLY JOHNSON – GAY IN

It’s now almost anticipated that every boy band mt clu at least one gay man their le-up but, at the close of the 20th century, such near-certati reached ltle further than the mour l. Madonna’s one-woman sexual revolutn further enared her to the legns of gay men who adore her; the 1990 h Vogue, clud on the I’m Breathls soundtrack album, brought mastream attentn to New York Cy’s queer ballroom scene, and, well to the 21st century, her unnnily powerful observatn of the cultural landspe, past and prent, uld still create huge hs, cludg the triumphant dis homage Confsns On A Dance Floor. Dpe beg one of the UK’s most proment LGBTQ+ micians for most of his life, the sger felt the need to clear up certa misnceptns his bgraphy, Freak Unique, rather nocently statg, “Am I gay, bi, trans or what?

Sce then, she’s released an eponymo sophomore effort (which The Guardian ranked the bt album of 2018), appeared the BBC’s 100 Women seri and performed on the 11th season fale of RuPl’s Drag Race. Lang publicly me out 1992 and has strongly supported gay rights , as well as animal rights and rearch to AIDS, before she was ma an Officer Of The Orr Of Canada 1996. Havg been set 1967, the age qutn for male same-sex terurse was then 21, much to the dismay of groups like Lbians And Gays Support The Mers, an LGBTQ+ anisatn who stood wh Welsh mers 1984 their fight to keep jobs and improve workg ndns.

HOW THE GAY IN MIC HAS EVOLVED SCE MARIAH CAREY

Away om mic, Mould me out as gay a Sp magaze terview 1990, and 2004 he helped raise tens of thoands of dollars support of legalisg same-sex marriage across the US via the WEDRock ncert. Like other LGBTQ+ micians – Pete Burns and Janis Jopl among them – Stipe rejected a pigeonholg of his sexualy, tellg gay magaze Butt 2004: “I thk there’s a le drawn between gay and queer, and for me, queer scrib somethg that’s more clive of the grey areas. The entertaer has tirelsly advoted for LGBTQ+ rights around the world, cludg Rsia, where, 2013, he asked Print Vladimir Put if he would like to know about var cizens who have been penalised unr Rsian anti-homosexual legislatn.

Followg his ath, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert For AIDS Awarens featured performanc om gargantuan acts, cludg Elton John, Metalli, Guns N’ Ros and Liza Melli (a gay in her own right).

While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi . Much of Erasure’s disgraphy embodi not precisely celebratory gay pri but gay romantic realy – a ankns about the emotnal, if not overtly sexual, liv of gay men toward the end of the 20th century.