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Contents:

• A BLACK GAY MIC CRIC ON: HOW CULTURE CLUB SAVED MY LIFE
• BOY GEE ON LOCKDOWN NCERTS, HIS REER AND BEG GAY THE 1980S
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• MOSW GAY CISE CLUBS

A BLACK GAY MIC CRIC ON: HOW CULTURE CLUB SAVED MY LIFE

Quickly noticg they had an Irish gay man as s lead sger, a black Bron on bass, a blond Englishman on guar and keyboards, and a Jewish dmmer, they chose the name Culture Club. Though there had been popular androgyno artists the past, such as David Bowie, homosexualy was still a taboo subject to put ont and center pop mic the 1980s, and most groups avoid beg open about their sexual inty.

BOY GEE ON LOCKDOWN NCERTS, HIS REER AND BEG GAY THE 1980S

Acrdg to The Stranger, early gay fans of Culture Club have sce admted this to have been tratg and perhaps evasive; and, as turned out, Gee me out as gay his 1995 tobgraphy Take It Like a Man, wrten wh Spencer Bright. More recently, Boy Gee has e to fe himself as "an old fashned gay man, " acrdg to Pk News, as opposed to beg genr-fluid.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

But then 1995, his tobgraphy, he said he was gay, and not bisexual, and that he had a secret relatnship wh his dmmer, Jon Moss and stated that many of their songs were actually based on their relatnship. I’d yet to disver the gay si of Jam Baldw (even though the paperback of Jt Above My Head was stg right there on the fay bookshelf) this was before Joseph Beam, Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Isaac Julien, and Assotto Sat, among others, jacked mastream whe gay reprentatns to create space for Black gay men. When he was wh Culture Club, much media attentn was given to his androgyno appearance, and there was speculatn about his Diana Ross pulled Boy Gee on stage for a fantastic performanceWhile he never flatly nied that he was gay, when asked terviews about his sexual orientatn, he gave var answers.

MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI

While some have looked on wh a cril eye, we’ve cid to celebrate , along wh all the gay anthems that me before . Rumors had been swirlg for years around Michael’s sexualy but nothg was ever nfirmed by him prr to this song’s release (shortly thereafter he me out as bisexual, before g out as gay further down the le). As early as 1983 he spoke about beg bisexual terviews (he now intifi as gay).

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

While there’s nothg explicly homosexual the play, many believe that the ma characters Vladimir and Estragon are an ageg homosexual uple, who are worn out and not engagg sexually any longer. If you’ve ever wnsed eher of the played a gay club, you’d fely agree when you hear the entire place go crazy and sg along wh every word.

MOSW GAY CISE CLUBS

Nile Rodgers (om the band Chic), who was workg wh Ross on material for her album Diana, got the spiratn for the song after seeg multiple drag queens drsed as Ross at a gay-iendly New York Cy club. Freddie Mercury was fely a rd-rryg member of the LGBTQ muny, although there is some bate about whether he intified as gay or bisexual. The vio further solidified the song’s stat as a gay anthem, as featur all the members of the band cross-drsg.

Group, Bronski Beat, released a gay anthem lled “Smalltown Boy” as the first sgle off their but album The Age of Consent. Unlike Queen, all three members of Bronski Beat were openly gay and their songs reflected this as well.

It was the semi-tobgraphil story of lead sger Jimmy Somerville about the opprsn of homosexuals the early ’80s provcial Stland.