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BIG GAY FOLLOWG: ALANIS MORISSETTE
An appropriate subhead, to borrow om Angels Ameri, would be: “A Sorta-Gay Fantasia of Amerin Them.
Beg om Hawaii, an island saturated wh R&B and reggae at the time, was my first rock album, an troductn to the tharsis of bangg dms and crashg guars to the balm of a percsive scream funneled through the suggtn of a album was salve for a wound I did not yet have the words to articulate — a stark ntrast to my gay idols, the culturally anoted on, who tght me to bury my feelgs a “sweet sweet fantasy, baby”; who tght me to stt and snap, to pantomime queer imperabily. But they rarely ved me ward, to the ep muck of my gay securi and down the rabb hole of my queer rage.
IS ALANIS MORISSETTE LBIAN? IS THERE ANY GAY SONG BY ALANIS?
”Our gay ins hold a mirror up to a generatn’s valu and ials of femy; to our dreams. By then, she was too cnchy for gay worship, too nontatnal, too real. But maybe what needs reevaluatg is our nvictn that our gay idols be glamazonian smokcreens, that they embody sparklg aircrafts for pism rather than landg pads for nontatn.
"The Advote: Lookg back, Alanis, you've had que a gay-iendly Morissette: Really? I don't even thk about , but did you first feel a nnectn wh the gay muny? I've felt love om the gay muny sce I was really young bee all my iends were gay.
My first manager was gay, and I ed to go to nightclubs wh him New York when I was 14.