Before we look forward to what 2018 has store (A double helpg of Drag Race! A new Troye Sivan album! New mic om Kylie Mogue and Madonna!) here are the bt gay anthems om the past year.
Contents:
- BT GAY ANTHEMS OF 2017: CRIC’S PICKS
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- PANSY CRAZE: THE WILD 1930S DRAG PARTI THAT KICKSTARTED GAY NIGHTLIFE
- THE MIL LEGACY OF GAY BATHHO
- FLASH THE FLH: MANCHTER'S GAY CLUB HERO – PICTUR
BT GAY ANTHEMS OF 2017: CRIC’S PICKS
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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
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PANSY CRAZE: THE WILD 1930S DRAG PARTI THAT KICKSTARTED GAY NIGHTLIFE
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THE MIL LEGACY OF GAY BATHHO
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FLASH THE FLH: MANCHTER'S GAY CLUB HERO – PICTUR
“This song beme the gay anthem of the time and still has stat today, ” says sger Ute Lemper. At Club Abbey, Mal dched the drs and revented himself as a high-mp, waspish, obvly gay man – and was this that sgled him out. “What was novel is that he did not brg a drag act to the club, but stead performed elegant men’s clothg, and brought wh him the mp w of the gay subculture, ” explas LGBT historian JD Doyle.
Photograph: Brigte DummerBut Paris had a reputatn for s laissez-faire attu, and queer performers were enuraged by the succs enjoyed the cy by Amerin performers cludg bisexual dancer Josephe Baker and gay trapeze artist Barbette. The bawdy, openly gay Pl O’Montis died the Sachsenhsen mp, jt 25 north of the stag he once mand. Wh the Hays Co effectively banng Hollywood om portrayg homosexual characters (or “attemptg to keep the dual-sex boys and lbos out of films” as Variety put ), and war Europe on the horizon, the LGBT performers who had domated nightlife for more than a were driven back unrground.