Carly Rae Jepsen: The gay terview - Dallas Voice

Contents:

• SHE BOP, WE BOP: CARLY RAE JEPSEN TALKS ‘GIFT’ OF LGBTQ FANS, GAY MAGIC & MULLET POWER
• ‘CALL ME MAYBE’ VIO ACTOR HOLN NOWELL SAYS HE WASN’T COMFORTABLE WH HIS CHARACTER’S GAY STORYLE
• CARLY RAE JEPSEN: THE GAY TERVIEW
• CARLY RAE JEPSEN BOYIEND, GAY, NET WORTH
• CARLY RAE JEPSEN SAYS BEG A GAY IN IS THE ‘GIFT’ OF HER REER
• THE GUY THE ‘CALL ME MAYBE’ MIC VIO SAYS HE WASN’T ‘FORTABLE’ PLAYG GAY

SHE BOP, WE BOP: CARLY RAE JEPSEN TALKS ‘GIFT’ OF LGBTQ FANS, GAY MAGIC & MULLET POWER

Queeri is a weekly lumn by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queri LGBTQ art, culture and/or inty through a personal 't get me wrong: Like any warm-blood gay man born the 1980s, I love Carly Rae Jepsen.

‘CALL ME MAYBE’ VIO ACTOR HOLN NOWELL SAYS HE WASN’T COMFORTABLE WH HIS CHARACTER’S GAY STORYLE

While I more than enthiastilly wish her a very happy 33rd birthday (a birthday she shar wh Björk, Goldie Hawn, Amanda Lepore and Cherry Jon, suggtg today really should be a stat holigay), I do feel like orr to properly serena her rise to a gay pop msiah (33 is your J year, after all), I need some rercements om the army of gay men who make my own fandom look relatively sual.

(In the wise words of the te prce of Gay Twter Louis Virtel, "It feels like only gay men n hear the words 'Carly Rae Jepsen.

CARLY RAE JEPSEN: THE GAY TERVIEW

" They thought was odd that three other homos and I would schlep to Detro for her ncert bee her only Toronto show was openg for Hedley (y, that Hedley) at the Air Canada Centre.

Gay men love an unrdog: a pop star who's stggled publicly (thk Brney, Kha) or one who they feel has been mismanaged by their label (Tashe, Ciara).

CARLY RAE JEPSEN BOYIEND, GAY, NET WORTH

Hark, the gay angels sg!

She was embracg a mographic that would evably bee her largt dience, and I uldn't have been more songs reunt stori of unrequed, fleetg and misguid love — facets of life I'm sure my gay brethren n all too faiarly relate to. I mean, what's more appropriate for a gaggle of homos than a track lled "Boy Problems"?

CARLY RAE JEPSEN SAYS BEG A GAY IN IS THE ‘GIFT’ OF HER REER

Matthew PoirierGrowg up ral Nova Stia as a closeted gay boy, I got ed to hidg all of the "girly" mic I enjoyed listeng to. I polely rmed him that was arguably the weakt of all her songs and then lnched to a well-rehearsed lecture on Carly's recently released, crilly acclaimed, yet unrsold album and her rise the "gay in" ranks. In hdsight, a "gay in"?

Her songs celebrate the timacy and primacy of those tense emotns of forbidn sir and secret csh, known vividly by that young, closeted gay boy om ral Nova Stia. That night, we filled a venue of about 100 unr an hour and had a le up down the block — turns out we weren't the only gays vourg the the release of Si B, Kev and I threw a followup party at a bigger venue, plete wh drag performanc and another Carly Rae cut-out to pose wh. Her ncerts — or at least the on I've been to — are filled wh two distct dienc: preteen girls who want to shout along to "I Really Like You" and queer people (mostly gay men) their 20s and 30s who n quote every letter of every song the woman has ever released.

THE GUY THE ‘CALL ME MAYBE’ MIC VIO SAYS HE WASN’T ‘FORTABLE’ PLAYG GAY

I wasn't the only one: every gay I knew was whisperg about the album and was gobsmacked as to why they liked so exceedgly. Is Carly Rae Jepsen gay? Content occupyg her own queer wonrland (shh, she’s still our bt kept secret), Jepsen’s post-“Call Me Maybe” trajectory to gay darlghood is a strange, betiful thg nsirg how tly lic her pist bops are: amed around prismatic beats that lean to the retro pop sounds of the ’80s and ’90s, her lyrics speakg to the human ndn, the ficklens of love her tramark.

Recently, Jepsen kept real while talkg about how the LGBTQ muny’s wholehearted embrace of her is “a betiful gift my life, ” beg more open to showg the public who she is, and almost gettg eaten alive by gays (bee of urse! I saw you play wh The Toronto Symphony Orchtra 2017 and that was gay heaven.

So many gays.