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- THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
- THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 75 ALBUMS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO OWN
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THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
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Rocky Horror Picture Show: Lipsyncg along to “Sweet Transvte” and “Time Warp” alone your room is somethg all ltle gay boys should experience, don’t you thk?
THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 75 ALBUMS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO OWN
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But ’s the ballads – “Sudnly Seymour” and the heartbreakg “Somewhere That’s Green” – that make this a mt-have for every gay man longg for Mr Right. Marc Almond, Mother Fist and her Five Dghters: Marc is the ‘80s equivilant of Kurt Weill and his mic speaks to the eternal, dark unrbelly of gay culture. Jobriath, Lonely Pla Boy: A super-gay glam-rock god who was unfairly relegated to the dtb of pop culture history, his mic has been scribed as a cross between early 1970s albums, wh some cidly Jaggerque vols.
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If Beyonce and Gaga and Lana Del Rey and Katy Perry and Rihanna all sang “I Am What I Am” to a throbbg dis beat, wouldn’t be HALF as gay – or as popular – as this album was.
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From the song’s openg synths and Jimmy Somerville’s unmistakable falsetto, “Smalltown Boy” marked a historic moment pop mic, pecially g om an openly gay group durg the peak of the AIDS crisis. While many pot to the ballroom culture-spired “Vogue” as her pivotal LGBTQ anthem, “Exprs Yourself” and s homoerotic visual was a siren ll to fans, enuragg them to have tonomy over their needs and sir. Inspired by “sad, gay dis anthems by Sylvter and Donna Summer, ” Swedish pop in Robyn turned an observatn on club culture to somethg much larger.
Des before Gaga’s gay anthem and pre-datg The Village People, Carl Bean brought gay pri to the clubs (and charts) on the 1977 Motown smash “I Was Born This Way. ” Origally released as a dis sgle by Valento, Bean brought his gospel-powered vols to the track, as he proclaims, “I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay/I was born this way. “I’m Comg Out” didn’t jt allu to the former Supreme’s dis makeover, was a sign of support to her gay fanbase (whether Diana Ross was overtly aware of or not) crafted by funk archects Nile Rodgers and Chic -founr Bernard Edwards.