ABBA Creds the Gays for Their Return to Mic

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THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

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Gay revelers (and their lucky straight iends) are wavg their arms, strikg genue pos and shamelsly sgg along to the sugary 45-year-old pop standard that’s bee synonymo wh queer nightlife.

” and “Macho Man” for themselv, but there’s no way they’ll take this one om to multiple stage and screen rnatns of “Mamma Mia!, ” fabuloly garish stum om gay signer Owe Sandström and nsummately crafted songs more retroactively popular than their ’70s and early ’80s heyday, ABBA has for s been the bull’s-eye of the LGBTQ mil universe. Ostensibly cheerful but packed wh drama and peppered wh Sndavian melancholy, the Stockholm mixed-genr quartet’s pop has blueprted the glz of untls gay and gay-iendly acts om Kylie Mogue to Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert to Lil Nas X — a sgular achievement for a band that hadn’t pleted an album 40 years.

This week releasg “Voyage, ” s first new LP sce 1981 and a teaser for next year’s London ncerts featurg 3D avatars, ABBA is to many gay fans what the Rollg Ston are to straights — archetyp whose appeal transcends time, place and age. While even ins like Madonna polarize opn, nearly every lor of the gay rabow agre on wasn’t always the se. Back when Donna Summer reigned as disputable dancg queen, ABBA didn’t get much gay club play, not even you-know-what.

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Y, there were exceptns: Larry Levan — the fluential gay Black DJ at New York’s legendary and largely Black/LGBTQ Paradise Garage — adored Cher’s “Take Me Home. ” But gay DJs and their dienc mostly favored unrground divas and obscure orchtral matros they disvered and popularized, not succsful pop acts plucked om AM changed the early ’80s when the U. Straight clubs shifted to eclectic funk and new wave, but the well of speedy gay dancefloor arias nearly ran dry.

” “The first time he did that, was a mistake, ” rells Robbie Llie, DJ veteran of New York Cy’s the Sat, the ultimate ’80s gay dis. ”Like Llie’s siarly beloved mix of Jimmy Ruff’s “Hold on to My Love, ” Rodriguez’s ABBA transformatn appeared only on Dis, a gay-owned subscriptn remix service. This forced a 12-ch release overseas of “Lay All Your Love on Me’s” paratively ordary LP cut that prerved the exclivy of Rodriguez’s versn, while s longevy proved that dancers — particularly gay on — still craved fast and lty club anthems.

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In 1982, ABBA’s North Amerin label issued s kdred uptempo tune “The Visors” as a sgle, but once aga, a gay subscriptn-only remix service, Hot Tracks, supplied the extend ABBA that year rerd what would be for s s fal ssns, U. Producers such as Stock Aken Waterman filled the void wh gay-targeted “hi-NRG” tracks that crossed to the mastream via Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Mogue and Summer, while everyone om the Lat Rasls to the Pet Shop Boys replited Rodriguez’s mache-gun hi-NRG ran s urse, England’s Erasure released 1992’s “Abba-que, ” a love letter of ver versns. Its gay lead sger, Andy Bell, and his straight synth sikick Vce Clarke even re-created their source material’s “Take a Chance on Me” vio drag, wh U.

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In 1994, the oldi promently popped up the movi “Muriel’s Weddg, ” which gave gay fave Toni Collette her big break, and “The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert, ” a trans-tastic road edy. At the absolute nadir of the AIDS plague, ABBA was reborn to paragons of gloom-relievg if bombastic outfs and bubblegum hooks had been the only gear ABBA gave to LGBTQ culture, s gay appeal would’ve plummeted after the lifavg arrival of antiviral cktails.

Our survival strategy has always been to unter hate wh love; we manift gayns to endure s on the most fundamental level, ABBA’s heterosexualy is more overt than the straightt rock dus. Lbian separatists and gay male misogynists might gmble, but most of relish ABBA’s unmatched genr pary and equaly. This is ABBA’s gift to LGBTQ culture — an oasis wh the mega-mastream that Rodriguez and other gay pneers helped Walters is the thor of the forthg book “Mighty Real: The Mic That Built LGBTQ Ameri.

Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” has long been herald as an anthem of AIDS rilience (much to Xtra edor Pl Gallant’s dismay). The ia of “gay anthems” or “queer anthems” has been around for s. The edors of the 2001 book Queer posed 10 featur of a gay anthem, rangg om them of overg hardship love to makg no apologi for who you are.

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25 Gay Anthems We Need More Than Ever. The inic ‘70s rock band led by gay superstar Freddie Mercury may be forever remembered for Bohemian Rhapsody, but this sexy, propulsive tune — that gleefully swaps male and female pronouns — perfectly ptur the spir of Pri. This banned vio, set a gay leather bar, ptur the song’s lic bchery.

Forty-four years ago, Reed had a mastream h wh this hypnotic tale of gay and transgenr streetwalkers, spired by Andy Warhol’s darlgs of the unrground. After transng om Disney kid to pop prcs, Aguilera got ser and spiratnal wh this anthem (and explicly gay-iendly vio) support of everyone who’s ever felt different.

The former Supreme allegedly rerd this jnty tune as a tribute to her legns of gay fans. Before officially g out as gay a 1998 Advote terview, the ternatnal pop star rerd this song, which telegraphed his stggl wh his artistic and personal inty.

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Out and proud before was remotely fashnable, the androgyno Sylvter created this dis anthem — which beme synonymo wh gay liberatn. The gay liberatn ‘70s and the age of dis (which was born gay clubs) created a bumper crop of gay anthems.

The greatt and gayt novelty act of all time produced nothg but tongue--cheek gay anthems. But the vio of this song, that’s been played for s at bar mzvahs, was filmed at New York’s most notor cisg grounds — makg s gay subtext perfectly clear.

From s irristible tro to s lir vols, this dis h om Swen’s greatt import has spired generatns of gay fans to cut loose on the dance floor.

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