Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men – Billboard

Contents:

• “RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• TROYE SIVAN AND JARED FRIER HAVE A (VERY GAY) CONVERSATN
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
• TROYE SIVAN DON’T WANT YOU TO CALL HIM A GAY IN: ‘I’M ONE VOICE OF SO MANY THAT ARE MISSG’
• 18 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GAY JEWISH POP STAR TROYE SIVAN
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

“RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM

I wanted to start gog out and gog to gay clubs and meetg boys, and I wanted to wre songs about love that were te and genue. " and "Bloom" have ma him a buddg gay in.

Ined, his ovre reads like a gay g-of-age story: there are the nods to boyhood and g out the trilogy of Blue Neighborhood mic vios; reflectns on the nocence of early sexual experienc “Seventeen” and “Bloom”; he pots to the body-image challeng of existg as a gay man “STUD”; to heartbreak “The Good Si” and the ache for love of “Angel Baby”; and now the wds of liberatn, sexual eedom, and nfince “Rh. ” There’s also his film work, as the angsty gay teenager Boy Erased, or the high schooler who fds out he’s been exposed to HIV Three Months. Judgg by “Rh, ” wh s betifully grty Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio (cludg an already Twter-viral keg stand and Sivan dancg around a jockstrap), he may very well be up celebrate the release of “Rh, ” and the announcement of his third stud album, Vogue spoke to Sivan about gayns, partyg, queer muny, and the importance of mic vios.

Photo: Stuart Weff / Courty of Universal Mic GroupVogue: I have to start by askg about the name of the song, which many of on the gay rner of the ter are assumg is a reference to poppers, given the well-known brand also named Sivan: I mean, sure. Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

We n be gay after the month of June. Some gays weren’t feelg the ‘Rh’ after watchg the vio for Troye Sivan’s new song — and the Atralian pop star says he now unrstands why.

Last week, Sivan marked his anticipated mil eback wh the release of sexy, gay, o-to-poppers earworm “Rh, ” and wh arrived a horny, gloryhole-featurg vio that had some queer people divid over the body diversy (or lack thereof) wh . Some, cludg the homosexual journalist wrg this story, cricized Sivan for optg for exclively skny, mostly whe men his visual. And as I tweeted after watchg the visual for the first time, seemed to ph the WeHo gay-endorsed narrative of “how whe gays choose to view queer people as a whole … jt whe twks and chiseled bodi.

TROYE SIVAN AND JARED FRIER HAVE A (VERY GAY) CONVERSATN

Charli XCX — Sivan’s “1999” llaborator and gay-man godss — shared her own thoughts on the nversatn, scribg gays’ ask for body diversy art as “borg disurse. It’s tertg that twks and f bodi are viewed as “mon athetics” to Charli, and fat or non-skny gays are not though. Anywhomst, the gays are exced for the new era of Troye Sivan.

Sivan me out publicly as gay three years after g out to his fay. On 7th Augt 2013, Sivan me out publicly as gay, three years after he’d e out to his fay. Sivan revealed that he’d known for a long time that he was gay.

Sce g out, Sivan has engaged all manner of discsns about beg gay.

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

Later the terview, Troye said he would love to have taken Timothée Chalamet’s place the gay romance Call Me By Your Name.

He also appreciated the reprentatn of gay people the film. ”He was also adamant that “Rh” not be released durg LGBTQ+ Pri Month June, notg: “Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem. 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.

TROYE SIVAN DON’T WANT YOU TO CALL HIM A GAY IN: ‘I’M ONE VOICE OF SO MANY THAT ARE MISSG’

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. But hear me out: this current era is by far Atralia’s gayt.

18 THGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GAY JEWISH POP STAR TROYE SIVAN

)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.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

This current gay era may live and die, but Progrs Shark is forever. The Asie ntent creator relled how he'd told his bt iend he was gay at the age of 14, thereby gag the urage to tell his father.

But, as the pop star rmed Another Man magaze, he has no tert beg a gay in, explag, "I'm one voice of so many that are missg.