LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached.
Contents:
- WOULDN'T THAT MAKE YOU GAY?
- THE EDIAN BEHD THAT VIRAL ‘HI GAY!’ MEME IS BACK WH ANOTHER VID, JT TIME FOR PRI MONTH
WOULDN'T THAT MAKE YOU GAY?
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(UPDATE: "Lady Marmala"'s songwrer, the late Bob Crewe, was gay. The sger, who's been out now for many years, discsed what was like beg famo and closeted wh the thors of Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Mic and Songs That Defed the 1980s, sayg, "I wasn't embarrassed about beg gay, but my role as Limahl, my pop star role, had to be more enigmatic. I didn't want to start talkg about gay sex and gays 1983 when most of our followg was teenage girls.
[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Baltimora, "Tarzan Boy" (1985)Baltimora was a short-lived Italian dance-pop group onted by a young gay Irishman named Jimmy McShane.
[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Pl Lekakis, "Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)" (1987)Take one look at pretty boy Pl Lekakis and you'll unrstand why this goofy o to one-night stands was a h back the day, settlg at number 43 -- not que Top 40, but of urse was a staple the gay clubs.
THE EDIAN BEHD THAT VIRAL ‘HI GAY!’ MEME IS BACK WH ANOTHER VID, JT TIME FOR PRI MONTH
[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Kon Kan, "I Beg Your Pardon" (1989)Another dance club staple, "I Beg Your Pardon" was the only h (number 15) for Canadian synth-pop group Kon Kan, which featured gay mician Barry Harris, who told thor Randolph Michaels the song was about an ex-boyiend. The Swedish band, which tak s name om a German documentary about gay rights, has had rotatg members over s long on-and-off reer. Williams, who's married to a woman and has a child wh her, don't help his e when he says thgs like, "There is a history of gay people pretendg to be straight.
I'm a straight person pretendg to be gay.