The brave new wave of gay male pop stars, om Lil Nas X to Troye Sivan

Contents:

• NEW WAVE EX-GAY CHRISTIAN LEAR ADMS FREQUENT SEX WH MEN
• POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S
• THE MOONLIGHT EFFECT: A NEW WAVE OF GAY G-OF-AGE STORI HS THEATERS
• AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY
• NEW WAVE OF BLACK, GAY NARRATIV TAKG BIGGER ROLE ON NYC THEATER SCENE
• WHAT THE BRAVE NEW WAVE OF GAY MALE POP STARS MEANS FOR MIC
• GAY WAVE
• NEW WAVE GAY SEX VALUE GEMATRIA IS 3354

NEW WAVE EX-GAY CHRISTIAN LEAR ADMS FREQUENT SEX WH MEN

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POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S

Rex and The Sweet as well as solo superstar David Bowie, spe his claratn of gayns Melody Maker Duran, Depeche Mo, Spand Ballet and their new-wave peers were an entirely different story.

THE MOONLIGHT EFFECT: A NEW WAVE OF GAY G-OF-AGE STORI HS THEATERS

They were teen idols (unlike the glam rockers) and, Ant's se, a bona fi sex symbol, settg fashn trends while challengg the strict fn of masculy and what "gay" and "straight" were supposed to look like.

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AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY

Perhaps that's why Boy Gee managed to bee a bankable ternatnal superstar, why Marc Almond logged a strg of UK hs, and out of Soft Cell, and why "Smalltown Boy, " Bronski Beat's gay anthem, went to number 3 the UK and nearly land the U.

NEW WAVE OF BLACK, GAY NARRATIV TAKG BIGGER ROLE ON NYC THEATER SCENE

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WHAT THE BRAVE NEW WAVE OF GAY MALE POP STARS MEANS FOR MIC

” While there have been notable films that chronicled gay characters, om Longtime Compann (1990) to Brokeback Mounta (2005), TV has historilly been the more progrsive medium for tellg the stori of beg a homosexual teenager, om Dawson’s Creek (which Berlanti executive-produced) to Glee. Even the more acclaimed youth-driven gay films — Betiful Thg and Edge of Seventeen the 1990s, and more recent exampl such as 2013’s Blue Is the Warmt Color or 2016’s Viva — were ma outsi of Hollywood and garnered limed releas. “There’s been a gay or queer sensibily rmg the creatn of the biggt new genre Amerin cema, which is the superhero movie, ” he says, cg Bryan Sger’s X-Men films as a prime example of a d blockbter whose mutant characters “e out” wh their special abili and fy a prejudiced untry.

” Later 2018, Foc Featur will release Boy Erased, directed by Joel Edgerton (The Gift), about a gay teen (Manchter by the Sea‘s Lus Hedg) whose parents (Nile Kidman and Rsell Crowe) ph for him to get nversn therapy. KajagoogooLimahl on his androgyno sex appeal as a young man: “I did date a girl, briefly, Leighton Buzzard, pretty much bee there were no gay guys and I had to get some actn somewhere.

GAY WAVE

For his legn lennial and Generatn Z fans, he’s among the first artists of their lifetime to ankly explore gay sex pop – notably on his recent send album, Bloom – and they’ve hailed him as a trailblazer.

The wds of the gay liberatn movement had been blowg strong for a : queer black men such as Sylvter had been at the heart of dis and the children of Bowie were g of age jt as MTV, a new medium that valued the high-energy visuals of queer nightclubs, was male pop artists were prevly few and far between: Ltle Richard’s lyrics about anal sex were cut om Tutti Ftti, and only took Bowie’s arm draped over the shoulr of Mick Ronson on Top of the Pops 1972 to send middle England reelg. “You had a backcloth of pop mic that was absolutely full of gay people, even megastars like Freddie Mercury and Elton John, but most of them were livg some sort of closeted existence, ” Flynn says.

“There was Boy Gee, Pete Burns – who was married, but who is what you would now ll queer – Morrissey sgg about ‘handsome vils’, Pet Shop Boys wh their slightly more opaque readgs of sexualy, Marc Almond om Soft Cell, Gee Michael, who was closeted even though everyone the dtry knew he was gay.

NEW WAVE GAY SEX VALUE GEMATRIA IS 3354

As cric Aled Soto wrote of Gee Michael: “Fe wh queerns so long as the artists didn’t ask or tell, the 1980s were the last time pop stars uld wear fgerls kchen glov whout dienc assumg they were gay.

Stock, Aken and Waterman, the songwrg tr who wrote for Dive and were rponsible for such 80s gay anthems as Dead or Alive’s You Sp Me Round (Like a Rerd), started wrg for Kylie Mogue and Jason Donovan (a man so heterosexual he sued a magaze for claimg he was gay). Celebry outgs beme a racket for tabloids that knew the jtery public would jump at such Michael: Outsi – vioAs mastream pop eher disappeared or grad gay men, many gay male pop nsumers rorted largely to “disintifitn” wh straight female pop stars durg the 90s and 00s: the procs by which, the absence of reprentative role mols, queer people claim a piece of culture that is not explicly queer.