Bce Sprgsteen Speaks Out For Gay Marriage – Billboard

Contents:

• NO BCE SPRGSTEEN IS NOT GAY, INSTEAD HE MARRIED TWICE
• IS BCE SPRGSTEEN GAY?
• BCE SPRGSTEEN: EXPLORG RUMOURS OF BEG GAY
• BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• BCE SPRGSTEEN STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN (PHOTO)
• BCE SPRGSTEEN CELEBRAT MARV GAYE, JACKIE WILSON, AND THE COMMODOR ‘NIGHTSHIFT’ MIC VIO
• BCE SPRGSTEEN ROCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

NO BCE SPRGSTEEN IS NOT GAY, INSTEAD HE MARRIED TWICE

Bce is far om gay; some might argue he is one of the straightt men alive. A quick poke around the Inter reveals as much: the amic texts readg his work as “homoerotic or queerly suggtive, ” as Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel wr; the “We’re Here and We’re Queerg Bce Sprgsteen” roundup at one of the longt-nng s for queer women, Autostraddle; the queer wrer Tennsee Jon’s short story llectn Deliver Me From Nowhere, based on the album Nebraska; and of urse, the many, many queer Bce Sprgsteen z, om Bee the Boss Belongs to Us to Butt Sprgsteen. Wrer Muna Mire once asked Twter, “Can anyone name a straight man that qualifi as [a gay in]?

Is his extreme butchns, so practiced and so precise that he might as well have learned om the olst lbian at a gay bar?

Straight upl at our school were bondg over study ssns on the quad, not close lls wh gay-bashg.

IS BCE SPRGSTEEN GAY?

Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rabow” has been a gay anthem for s. If “Somewhere Over the Rabow” is a gay mil theater anthem about the dream of a eer existence, “Born to Run” is unqutnably s rock ’n’ roll tw. Article ntents Abstract Referenc Abstract Bce Sprgsteen's body of work ntas a strikg number of songs wh homoerotic or queerly suggtive ntent.

Moreover, his live performanc often ph the lims of the homosocial, ‘queerg’ onstage relatnships through everythg om lgerg kiss wh the late saxophonist Clarence Clemons to timate microphone sharg wh guarist and real-life bt iend Stevie Van Zandt. I exame how Sprgsteen's queer lyril ntent and performative acts ntrast crilly wh domant readgs of his hypermascule, ‘all-Amerin’ image, and suggt that Sprgsteen's regular ployment of homosocial and homoerotic imagery both lyrics and performance – far om beg an exceptn to his more mastream persona – actually nstute a kd of queer athetic val to, and nsistent wh, his artistic visn of love and muny. ‘Sprgsteen's ass – and why you n't tell the straights om the gays’, The Advote, 17 Febary, p.

BCE SPRGSTEEN: EXPLORG RUMOURS OF BEG GAY

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BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

When Indiana passed a barbaro law thorizg bs owners to discrimate agast gay ctomers, the backlash om entreprenrs, universi, entertaers, and cy uncils me so harshly and rapidly that ernor Mike Pence begdggly amend the homophobic Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act to remove language permtg anti-LGBT discrimatn. If Sprgsteen is able to expede the livery of jtice, he n add to his imprsively long rume of brave advocy for gay rights, datg back to earlier days of his reer when support for gay and people was often an anathema.

To bat what Sprgsteen labeled the “veiled racism and homophobia of the anti-dis movement, ” he wrote “Protectn” for Donna Summer. Many of the upl are gay. Not only do the vio assign equal attentn and value to heterosexual and homosexual relatnships, apprais the love between gay people acrdg to the same standards as do Sprgsteen’s own romance.

The energy and tensy of gay attractn and affectn is no different – better or worse – than the lt and love Sprgsteen shar wh his girliend. " The film tells the story of a gay man facg employment discrimatn after his diagnosis wh HIV. “My Lover Man” is a gay love song.

BCE SPRGSTEEN STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN (PHOTO)

The tth seems that jt as Sprgsteen has wrten songs the voice of women, he narrat “My Lover Man” as a character – a gay character whose sexualy is not odd or immoral, but entirely normal and worthy of ser emotnal treatment. In a 1996 terview wh the Advote, Sprgsteen discs early iendships he enjoyed wh gay men after high school, and how he aimed to leverage his “very straight image” and “big guy dience” to make appear safe for heterosexual men to align wh gay rights.

BCE SPRGSTEEN CELEBRAT MARV GAYE, JACKIE WILSON, AND THE COMMODOR ‘NIGHTSHIFT’ MIC VIO

Sprgsteen’s bravery of polil and mil iendship wh gay Amerins had an unquantifiable, but real fluence.

His fort wh gay symbolism rmed me, as a straight young man workg overtime to imprs all the pretty girls, that homophobia was not an ditor of toughns or hipns. Sprgsteen had the nfince his own sexualy and masculy to sg the voice of a gay man, and to kiss his male iend on stage.

Those straight men who feel that the stabily of their inty requir hatred and harassment of homosexuals mt suffer om such severe self-doubt, almost mak their liv seem more sad than offensive. “Tougher Than The Rt” rerced the lson that mascule strength and pri rult om personal strength, but also sensivy toward the sir of women, while songs like “Streets of Philalphia” and “My Lover Man” stcted that gay people – their human value and the legimacy of their love – are equal to me.

BCE SPRGSTEEN ROCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

But now the gay public claims him as a mol and spiratn that enuraged them to be eer. Although he has been a mician for 40 years, playg stadiums before tens of thoands of people, many of whom n only know what is happeng on stage through giant screens, he exprs himself as if he were addrsg everyone public that he prents as ordary of them is, the ey of the mician and his songs, a hero of life who als wh his problems and epic of the day to many, he is an almost exclively male, blue-llar, heterosexual whe he has stood up to that his vios there is space for women or racial mori and Thougher than the rt, one of the songs onTunnel of Love(1987) featured gay and lbian upl openly displayg their stat. Somethg very unual for artists of his size at that ia was clear: everyone has a place among, 1993, Hollywood fally took a stand on AIDS, and the homophobia had brought wh , wh Jonathan Demme's filmPhilalphia, which Tom Hanks and Anton Banras played a gay uple which one of they ntracted the disease, Sprgsteen ntributed the tle song, Streets of 2012 he actively participated the mpaign to achieve the legalizatn of homosexual marriage several stat of the Uned Stat and 2017 he nceled a ncert North Carola prott of a law approved that state that curtailed the eedoms of transgenr Sprgsteen holds a guar his ranch hoe Colt's Neck, New Jersey, perhaps that is why we fd trac of Sprgsteen all rners of the LGTBI amic publitns such asPopular Mif the Universy of Cambridge, where the artist and Rosalie Zdzienicka signed an say tledBeyond blood brothers: a queer Bce Sprgsteen, which he said: "Bce Sprgsteen's work ntas a surprisg number of songs wh homoerotic or strangely suggtive ntent.

"Seeg that credible ver wh Bce's butt 1984, at the age of six, turned out to be probably my firstqueer experience, and sce that age I have felt a passnate love for the Boss and his mic, " the publisher of the athetic of that Sprgsteen seemed taken om the gay clubs of San Francis. "Bce Sprgsteen, the mpaign favor of homosexual FOUR 2012It's all circumstantial evince, 's te, but all pots the same directn: Bce Sprgsteen's looks, attu, life philosophy and songs have helped many gays and lbians bee has given them hope for a better future.