Michael Schulman on the pop idol Troye Sivan, whose songs translate the gay teen experience to regnizable r of passage.
Contents:
- FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
- ATRALIAN IDOL’S ANTHONY CALLEA ON G OUT TO HIS PARENTS AS GAY
- ATRALIAN IDOL DEAN GEYER PLANS FUTURE AS GAY RUMOR TARGET
- CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- ANTHONY CALLEA CLAIMS IAN ‘DICKO’ DICKSON TRIED TO OUT HIM AS GAY ON ATRALIAN IDOL
FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
Ian “Dicko” Dickson has nfirmed Anthony Callea’s recent claims that he tried to out him as gay while filmg Atralian Idol 2004. * australian gay idol *
Dicko nfirms he tried to out Anthony Callea on Atralian IdolOut of the jungle, Ian “Dicko” Dickson has publicly rpond to the claims Anthony Callea mak about him his new tell-all “Dicko” Dickson has nfirmed Anthony Callea’s recent claims that he tried to out him as gay while filmg Atralian Idol 2004.
Callea wrote the book that after one televised performance, Dicko announced that his target dience would be “granni, girls and gays” - what he said was a clear attempt to suate his sexualy on mera. “I uld clearly see he was gay and I kept phg him and sayg, ‘Look, we’ve worked wh artists and boy bands where they have been gay members but they’ve had to keep quiet. “I love the gay muny and I don’t unrstand why anyone would want to hi that.
ATRALIAN IDOL’S ANTHONY CALLEA ON G OUT TO HIS PARENTS AS GAY
David Archuleta has discsed g out as gay to his fay a recent Instagram post. He is not the first "Amerin Idol" nttant to discs stgglg wh his sexualy. * australian gay idol *
Today he is filmg wh Atralian Story at the Stonewall Hotel, the gay bar he first vised 1999 as a nervo 18-year-old, h om was, he rells wh a gr, "the begng of my big queer life". Jenek took to the Oxford Street gay scene like a duck to water, disverg a passn for drag and steppg out as Courtney Act for the first time at the dawn of 2001. "And wasn't wh gay guys, was wh straight guys, who I'm sure had a very tertg ternal monologue on their way to work the followg morng.
ATRALIAN IDOL DEAN GEYER PLANS FUTURE AS GAY RUMOR TARGET
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(Atralian Story: Greg Hassall)The turng pot me 2014, when he beme iends wh transgenr activist Chaz Bono, who he met when he appeared on the US realy TV show RuPl's Drag was Bono who troduced Jenek to the term "genr fluid" — the ia that genr exists on a spectm and you don't have to nform to one extreme or the realise that was possible to marry the two extrem of his inty — that was alright for Shane to be a feme man — was a transformative moment for Jenek, allowg him to st off a lifetime of shame and ternalised homophobia. Normally someone would have lled me a homophobe or raised their voice or stormed out and you didn't, you jt listened and we jt talked'. Atralia is s gay era: a time when all the arne and uy machatns of the untry une to discharge a torrent of queerns upon the world.
Jt sayg — Mch Feltscheer (@mchfel) July 13, 2023The cleart harbger of this era is the double whammy of gay pop that Atralia has produced recent months. It is pure gay smut: a paean to poppers spired, per his own admissn, by the sweaty clubs of Melbourne’s Smh Street. It is, perhaps, the bt fence of twk Rh is merely a chaser to that other tentpole of gay Atraliana: Kylie Mogue, whose sgle Padam Padam skyrocketed to the top 10 of the UK charts last month and has (mostly) stayed there sce.
CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
But hear me out: this current era is by far Atralia’s gayt. )Sce Bartlett, the gay Atralian agenda has been full swg.
How lucky we are to be livg through the entire spectm of queer all, evably, serv as a precursor to Sydney WorldPri – that 17-day party earlier this year rponsible for the stctn of every gay person’s sleepg habs. This current gay era may live and die, but Progrs Shark is forever. “I went to the gay Pri Ftival and was my first time gog to like one of those kds of events where I was surround by a lot of people like me, felt very acceptg, ” Hayn said.
“I was tears, actually, bee I had such a great time and was so wonrful to see so many diverse, creative and amazg young people, old people and people who are mted gay relatnships that jt ma me feel a sense of acceptance and wholens.
ANTHONY CALLEA CLAIMS IAN ‘DICKO’ DICKSON TRIED TO OUT HIM AS GAY ON ATRALIAN IDOL
“I have been reached out to by a nttant that was on Atralian Idol who is gay. “He was tellg me about his stggle beg gay on TV and not beg able to be open about and tellg me that this is an opportuny for me to make , make gay youth feel accepted and feel like ’s OK. When Gay Natn chatted wh Hayn they uldn’t reveal their next performance song which they will sg on Channel 7 and 7Pl at 7pm on Sunday night but said ’s a b different and will volve some dancg.
He’s always been a gay sort of figure that I’ve followed on TikTok and been spired by.