The Gay Essentials: The 50 Movi Every Gay Man NEEDS to Watch While Stuck at Home - The WOW Report

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• GAY ESSENTIAL
• 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

GAY ESSENTIAL

50) The Boys the Band: I haven’t clud many gay films here – you know, movi about actual homosexuals – bee ually they’re eher too dreary or too earnt and lack that certa “quotable qualy” that mak somethg mp. Queer cema—or as was enargly brand the ‘90s, New Queer Cema (the ‘90s were extremely gay for pennt film)—has afford directors of all sexual inti and orientatns all over the world an opportuny to showse distctive, nuanced, personal stori of what means to be a member of the LGBTQ muny.

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THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME

Loosely based on a story of a fictnal alien rock superstar named Ziggy Stardt, this album did more for generatns of sexually ambiguo eaks and outsirs than a ln gay pri paras.

Lou Reed, Transformer: Dismissed by Rollg Stone when me out as “artsy-fartsy, sort of homo stuff, ” that’s exactly reason you’re gog to love . Songs like “Perfect Day, ” “Satelle of Love, ” “Andy’s Cht, ” and of urse “Walk on the Wild Si” still speak to today and rema important hallmarks of gay culture.

T-Rex, The Slir: The masra’d bety of Marc Bolan upled wh over-the-top glam-rock power chords make this a mt-have album for every gay ck-rocker. Suxsie & the Banshe, Hyaena: There is a whole generatn of gay men (myself clud) who openly weep at the those first chords of “Dear Pnce. 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

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. 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.

Her brash, feisty rope-’em-and-tie-’em-up sensibili have stck a chord wh legns of gay fans who idolize her strong, no-nonsense – yet credibly heartbreakg – song stylgs.

Janis Ian, Between the L: Janis was an ugly girl who sang songs for ugly girls, and what lonely teenage gay boy n’t relate to lyrics like:. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below16Cy of Night by John Rechy16Cy of Night by John RechyNow 11% OffCred: Grove PrsTake a trip to the unrground world of gay htlers, drag queens, and sex workers this book that sndalized the lerary world when first me out but went on to bee a mt-read. Among her imprsive talogue of dance-pop gems, “All The Lovers” marked the first time the sger seemed to directly addrs her gay fanbase, along wh the acpanyg vio that featur a mass of upl of all strip makg out around her.

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.