For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre 'love letters' to the LGBTQ muny.
Contents:
- TEGAN AND SARA RELL 'PROS AND CONS' OF GROWG UP GAY THE '90S: 'IT WAS EASIER SOME WAYS'
- TEGAN GAY
- OP-ED: THE GAY TTH ABOUT RONALD REAGAN
- TARON EGERTON CLARIFI HIS SEXUALY THE WAKE OF SPECULATN THAT HE’S GAY
TEGAN AND SARA RELL 'PROS AND CONS' OF GROWG UP GAY THE '90S: 'IT WAS EASIER SOME WAYS'
Pop duo Tegan and Sara talk about the queer '90s movi and micians that spired their journey, and the gay TV shows they currently love. * tegan gay *
The Canadian pop duo share the pop culture that helped them e out and why the new crop of gay TV is so by Mallory Rosten for ThrillistDign by Mallory Rosten for ThrillistThe Qu tws, Tegan and Sara, have spent a lot of time over the past few years reexamg their youth. 'All Over Me' | Full Le FeaturQueer '90s cemaTegan: For Sara and I obvly growg up the '90s, there wasn't a ton of gay reprentatn out there, so I thk what gay reprentatn llid wh , sparked joy and excement and nervons.
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A lot of '90s gay people have the same experience.
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OP-ED: THE GAY TTH ABOUT RONALD REAGAN
Ronald Reagan failed to succsfully bat the AIDS crisis, but do that make him antigay? * tegan gay *
" No, I was super still nflicted for years, and really didn't sk for me until I probably was 23 or 24 where I was like, "Oh yeah, no, I'm really gay and I'm gog to tell everyone and I have to nstantly e out bee I don't want to be closeted ever.
TARON EGERTON CLARIFI HIS SEXUALY THE WAKE OF SPECULATN THAT HE’S GAY
Billboard talked wh Tegan & Sara about "femotnal" mic, their sexualy (both intify as gay) and why they should be taken as serly as Kanye Wt. * tegan gay *
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