Kylie: Beg a Gay In | Natnal Film and Sound Archive of Atralia

Contents:

• KYLIE MOGUE ON THE FIRST TIME SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN
• KYLIE MOGUE: 'I BEME A GAY IN BY BEG MYSELF'
• KYLIE MOGUE FALLY SETTL THE DEBATE ON THE DEFIVE GAY ANTHEM: HERE’S HER PICK
• KYLIE MOGUE OPENS UP ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE REALISED SHE WAS A GAY IN
• KYLIE MOGUE REVEALS THE MOMENT SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN
• "KYLIE'S A GAY IN" - ATRALIAN THOR KATHY LETTE EXPLAS SGER'S MPAIGN

KYLIE MOGUE ON THE FIRST TIME SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN

"It happened whout me knowg , " Mogue tells Billboard, explag she beme aware of her tense LGBTQ followg the late '80s while visg Sydney's so-lled "Gay Goln Mile. Speakg to Billboard ahead of the show, the Asie pop queen reflected on the first time she realized she was a gay in.

KYLIE MOGUE: 'I BEME A GAY IN BY BEG MYSELF'

“It happened whout me knowg , ” Mogue tells Billboard, explag she beme aware of her tense LGBTQ followg the late ’80s while visg Sydney’s so-lled “Gay Goln Mile. “I was Sydney and there’s a famo bar on Oxford Street lled the Albury, and at the time was the gay bar the gay area Sydney. Sce then, Kylie’s given more than enough looks to populate an entire bar whout repeats, and her gay fan base has only grown.

KYLIE MOGUE FALLY SETTL THE DEBATE ON THE DEFIVE GAY ANTHEM: HERE’S HER PICK

The track’s melancholic Hi-NRG productn, and s universal lyrics speakg of a romantic longg that might never be sated, nnected anilly wh a generatn of young gay men stgglg wh their place a wir society that was sred and then goad to antagonism by the AIDS crisis. PWL’s creative geni lay the balanced steer between the teen pop that led the rerd racks the UK high-street cha Woolworths and the vibrant personaly of the gay club scene.

And Shocked, Kylie first beme aware of the appeal she had on the gay scene. She told Billboard: “I was Sydney and there’s a famo bar on Oxford Street lled the Albury and, at the time, was the gay bar  the gay area Sydney. She went so far as to rerd wh the legendary Gloria Gaynor on Can’t Stop Wrg Songs About You, but wh sgl such as Magic, and the duets wh Years & Years (A Send To Midnight) and Jsie Ware (Kiss Of Life), Kylie was craftg tracks as creatively nsistent as ever.

Dis divas are arguably ten to the dozen, and gay men particular have an built vulnerabily to a sometim lightweight appeal. In an terview wh Olly Alexanr of Years & Years, for London’s Eveng Standard, Kylie posned her reputatn as a gay in simply: “I didn’t set out to do that [be clive], is jt naturally how I feel. – The tly provotive pop songs– The gay ecstasy of the Village People– Is Lady Gaga a geni or a pyt?

KYLIE MOGUE OPENS UP ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE REALISED SHE WAS A GAY IN

“I gus for me as a gay person of a certa generatn, there's a lot of leftover sadns and bterns om my youth, and Kylie was always an antidote to that, ” he says. When sger-songwrer Ruf Wawright picked her as one of his top 10 gay ins 2006, he scribed her as “the anti-Madonna” bee she offers light where her provotive peer skews darker. She is the gay shorthand for joy.

They are all hugely popular wh the LGBTQ+ muny, and they are publicly ncept of ‘gay ins’ – a term ed to scribe public figur regard as cultural ins by the LGBTQ+ muny – is nothg new. But, what mak somebody a gay in, and how do a cisgenr, heterosexual celebry bee LGBTQ+ royalty?

KYLIE MOGUE REVEALS THE MOMENT SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN

It n apply to athetics, fashn, behavur and performance style – all thgs which seem to serly fluence whether somebody reach gay in stat.

“The realy is that LBTQ people often are not equipped wh idols, they often are not born to a fay wh LGBTQ+ role mols , ” says Milly Williamson, a senr lecturer media and anthropology at Goldsmhs, says: “Back the days when homosexualy was illegal, there were no role mols. “There still aren’t that many gay ins and gay celebri. ”It mak sense that when to heterosexual artists who bee gay ins, they will often also be people who stand for the LGBTQ+ muny and are strong alli.

Many celebri who are openly supportive of the LGBTQ+ muny – like Madonna, the late Elizabeth Taylor and even Prcs Diana – have gaed gay in stat. “Madonna’s work is an embracg of sexualy and joy, she did some good work to showse gay men wh thgs like the Vogue mic vio, showg the ballroom scene, ” explas many, allyship is a key part of the picture. “It sadns me that we often see straight, cisgenr women given the tle of gay in for no more than the fact that they enjoy the support of our LGBT+ muny, ” says Amy Ashenn, terim CEO of LGBTQ+ youth chary Jt Like Us.

"KYLIE'S A GAY IN" - ATRALIAN THOR KATHY LETTE EXPLAS SGER'S MPAIGN

“In tim where 72% of trans young people have faced verbal abe the past year, we sperately need more proactive allyship, ” Ashenn unrstandgThere is also often a mutual unrstandg between members of the LGBTQ+ muny and celebri who have experienced adversy or discrimatn – particularly example, when asked about her own gay in stat back 2020, Mogue told The Atralian newspaper: “Part of is the mic, part of may have been a theory I explored, that I wasn’t wasn’t always given the easit of tim back then… And I wonr if part of that g together was an unrstandg of not beg accepted for who you are.

”Williamson says there n be a sense of beg “uned by stggle” that to play between gay ins and LGBTQ+ fans. Hot Dance Club 5'1" pop pixie says she is proud to be an adopted in of the LGBT muny, but what mak her appeal to gay fans isn't accintal or manufactured eher.