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• SARA GAY FORN: THE TRAGIC TTH ABOUT THE HOE OF GUCCI MURR
• 'HOE OF GUCCI' THOR SARA GAY FORN ON VELOPG THE FAY SAGA
• SARA GAY FORN ON MANAGG BIG TECH: 'WE HAVE TO BE SMART, AND WE HAVE TO BE RMED'
• SARA GAY
• TEGAN AND SARA RELL 'PROS AND CONS' OF GROWG UP GAY THE '90S: 'IT WAS EASIER SOME WAYS'
• SARA, OF TEGAN AND SARA, ON GROWG UP GAY
• FOUND 41 RULTS FOR SARA GAY

SARA GAY FORN: THE TRAGIC TTH ABOUT THE HOE OF GUCCI MURR

The Canadian pop duo share the pop culture that helped them e out and why the new crop of gay TV is so by Mallory Rosten for ThrillistDign by Mallory Rosten for ThrillistThe Qu tws, Tegan and Sara, have spent a lot of time over the past few years reexamg their youth.

'All Over Me' | Full Le FeaturQueer '90s cemaTegan: For Sara and I obvly growg up the '90s, there wasn't a ton of gay reprentatn out there, so I thk what gay reprentatn llid wh , sparked joy and excement and nervons. What's the word, Sara, that you always e about what's your first gay, when you meet somebody—Sara: Your root?

It had a gay story , was so ol.

'HOE OF GUCCI' THOR SARA GAY FORN ON VELOPG THE FAY SAGA

"Openly lbian miciansTegan: When we disvered The Murmurs and Leisha Hailey and heard that she was gay, that was a huge al. I have no ia if we loved them and loved their mic bee I n't separate om how fuckg thrillg was jt to know that there was a gay person DiFran, same thg. The fact that she was gay, I didn't feel a sire to hi that I loved her.

A lot of '90s gay people have the same experience.

" We're all the nst gay people on earth bee we were so proud of and we were so exced about , but we assumed nobody else unrstood how gay we were. If I was radiatg queerns and I was aaid of beg ught out as a gay person, then I wouldn't have cut my hair like a boy's haircut, wh a sgle earrg, and drsed om the boys' si of the partment store.

SARA GAY FORN ON MANAGG BIG TECH: 'WE HAVE TO BE SMART, AND WE HAVE TO BE RMED'

Everyone was like, "You're so gay lookg.

" No, I was super still nflicted for years, and really didn't sk for me until I probably was 23 or 24 where I was like, "Oh yeah, no, I'm really gay and I'm gog to tell everyone and I have to nstantly e out bee I don't want to be closeted ever. I hate that we see the weak, vulnerable outsir and prey on them, whereas I thk bee there was two of , we were not as easy to brg What's tertg is we have a iend om high school who actually ran a [Gay-Straight Alliance] the last five years. She's a teacher and now a vice prcipal and she's not queer but obvly hangs out wh almost exclively queer people, but she had really tertg sight about GSAs, which was 's not all the gay kids at school that go to the GSA.

But I thk the fundamental tth is that jt beg young is hard, and so figurg out who you are and what you like and what you're to and what culturally matters—that's really, really, really, really Iwu and Ncuti Gatwa Season 3 of 'Sex Edutn' | Sam Taylor/NetflixThe new crop of gay TV shows and moviTegan: I'm watchg the one on HBO, Irma Vep. The director was spired, however, by Sara Gay Forn’s meticuloly rearched book, Hoe of Gucci, which documents – not jt the murr of Mriz – but also the Succsn-style fdg of the Gucci fay. "The Hoe of Gucci [Movie Tie-In] by Sara Gay Forn is published by Ctom Hoe, RRP £8.

SARA GAY

On March 27, 1995, Sara Gay Forn was preparg to go to work when Mriz Gucci, head of the Gucci fashn label, was gunned down on the steps outsi his office Italy. They did not see Gucci as a big nameSara Gay Forn, thorForn worked closely wh members of the Gucci fay when wrg Hoe of Gucci, specifilly Mriz’s s, Roberto and Grg, who at one pot ran the pany Florence and Rome rpectively. ”'Hoe of Gucci' by Sara Gay Forn.

Big tech pani have tegrated themselv to our liv “ a way that is seamls”, helpg them amass fluence and power that surpass even that of ernments, journalist Sara Gay Forn said on Friday at the Emirat Airle Ftival of Lerature. Tracg back the begngs of big tech’s ascent to power, she poted out how the Clton admistratn, by advotg the ter’s self-regulatns, had sentially given fledglg pani the opportuny to grow Sara Gay Forn leads a Bloomberg News team that vers the US ernment’s relatnship wh big tech pani. Sara graduated wh honors Enomics and Bs, after a perd as a Rearcher at the Universy of Bergamo and post-graduate urs at Harvard Universy, Sara Gay began her reer 1995 the tradg room at Credo Bergamas, later movg to Cred Commercial France on stctured products.

So was easier some ways to be a teenager and be gay if you were fortable wh jt not talkg about .

TEGAN AND SARA RELL 'PROS AND CONS' OF GROWG UP GAY THE '90S: 'IT WAS EASIER SOME WAYS'

"But also, I got to have sleepovers wh my bt iend bee my mom didn't know I was gay and sleepg wh her. "I mean, we joked at the begng when we got the green light for the show that we were jt hopg we uld fd tws at all, " Tegan says, addg: "We really hoped that the tws would be gay. For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre 'love letters' to the LGBTQ muny.

SARA, OF TEGAN AND SARA, ON GROWG UP GAY

For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre ‘love letters’ to the LGBTQ muny. Sara, of Tegan and Sara, on Growg Up Gay | AnOtherTegan and SaraCourty of Trevor BradyWh a memoir and album about to drop, Sara Qu of Canadian die pop band Tegan and Sara opens up about her youth and about the plited emotns she experienced while workg on the projectsSeptember 25, 2019. Their excellent new memoir High School offers a movg and revealg glance back at the sisters’ formative years makg mic, gog to rav and slowly gettg to grips wh their gayns.

Even when I had a girliend and I was havg sex wh her, I still imaged myself as beg not gay. It’s strikg to me now bee lookg back, I’m like, ‘Wow, I was really gay! ’ And wasn’t like I wasn’t talkg about gay people.

Tegan and I found 20 hours of VHS tap om our broadst and munitn class [at high school] and any time we were on mera, we’d fd a way of workg to the nversatn, like, ‘What do you thk about homosexuals? ’ So was weird to be wrg this book about how sred I was as a young queer person – and then see all the VHS tap where I never shut up about gay people.

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I uld talk about gay people and not associate myself wh .

I didn’t want her to be gay bee I felt like that was gog to make me seem more gay. I was like, ‘Oh great, so we’re both gay’.

SQ: I don’t know if I was shocked, but I was really sad when I was gog through that part of my story and thkg how impacted by my ternalised homophobia I really was. We sort of bsh off now – like, ‘yeah, thgs weren’t as ol for gay people back the 90s’.