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- POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S
- TROYE SIVAN, HAYLEY KIYOKO ARE THE UNABASHEDLY GAY POP STARS WE NEED RIGHT NOW
POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S
* gay new wave artists *
Rex and The Sweet as well as solo superstar David Bowie, spe his claratn of gayns Melody Maker Duran, Depeche Mo, Spand Ballet and their new-wave peers were an entirely different story. They were teen idols (unlike the glam rockers) and, Ant's se, a bona fi sex symbol, settg fashn trends while challengg the strict fn of masculy and what "gay" and "straight" were supposed to look like. It was, a sense, the first metrosexual didn't take one look at the members of Spand Ballet the vio for "To Cut a Long Story Short, " their 1980 but sgle, and jt assume that they were gay?
TROYE SIVAN, HAYLEY KIYOKO ARE THE UNABASHEDLY GAY POP STARS WE NEED RIGHT NOW
Didn't those so-lled "New Romantics" tick all the gay stereotyp?
Among the possibly rrect assumptns: 1) There was Band Aid/Live Aid-style mararie among the pop acts; 2) one big h set them up for life; and 3) a lot of them were boys who liked 's not to say that '80s new wave didn't have s gay ntgent. I hadn't cid if I was 100 percent gay, and wasn't an issue. "I wasn't embarrassed about beg gay, but my role as Limahl, my pop star role, had to be more enigmatic, " he says.
"I didn't want to start talkg about gay sex and gays 1983 when most of our followg was teenage girls. Of urse, lookg back, I n realize anybody wh a modicum of life experience would have said, 'He's gay -- he jt don't know yet. Perhaps that's why Boy Gee managed to bee a bankable ternatnal superstar, why Marc Almond logged a strg of UK hs, and out of Soft Cell, and why "Smalltown Boy, " Bronski Beat's gay anthem, went to number 3 the UK and nearly land the U.