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:
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
- TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS
- QUEER AS POP: FROM THE GAY SCENE TO THE MASTREAM
- HARRY STYL ON NAVIGATG GAY SEX SCEN ‘MY POLICEMAN’: “IT’S TENR AND LOVG AND SENSIVE”
- IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Queer as Pop is the story of how, time and aga, mic has filtered om the gay scene to the mastream. Documentary om Sharp Jack TV. * pop gay scene *
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“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non. "Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
The 80s put the gay man ont and centre of pop. Then me the Aids crisis – and three s of monisatn, disrd and displacement. Now, wh Troye Sivan leadg a new wave of gay stars, has change tly arrived? * pop gay scene *
PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.
”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove. Tom HollandFans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me. ”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is... Bt Gay Scene: Murray Bartlett, Las Gage 'The Whe Lot'.
THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the on who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized marg, gay terwoven muny clud Brian Epste (who brought the world the Beatl), K Lambert (who -managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Ge), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smh (who formed the visnary label Charisma for bands like Genis). In fact, was a gay man, Larry Parn, who svengali-d Bra’s very first rockers, om Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wil.
A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood.
TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS
”At the same time, the rich, powerful and fluential men faced the nsirable nsequenc of beg gay at a time when homosexual acts were still outlawed the UK. ”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle. ”Bullock’s book don’t lve to the eper cultural and psychologil issu volved the relatnships between the gay and straight men.
QUEER AS POP: FROM THE GAY SCENE TO THE MASTREAM
Still, ’s clear to any stunt of the era that the edgy liv of gay men at the time fascated the straight artists they worked wh. They weren’t jt gay but also Jewish.
HARRY STYL ON NAVIGATG GAY SEX SCEN ‘MY POLICEMAN’: “IT’S TENR AND LOVG AND SENSIVE”
”In some ways, managers like Epste and other others uld sulate themselv om the everyday life of gay men at the time – throwg their own exclive parti and circulatg elevated circl where they uld do as they pleased. Ironilly, after the law agast homosexual acts changed Bra 1967 – crimalizg them certa circumstanc and for those of a certa age – the harassment of LGBTQ people actually tensified.
IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
“But post-67, and wh the formatn of the Gay Liberatn Front 1970 Bra and wh gay people beg more outspoken, the raids and the psdo-polil attacks started to happen more. The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swgg Sixti is out now. He appeared on the Melon charts wh Zi on the song “Complex” 2022, and most recently, featured on “Summer” wh the Korean Canadian rapper Pl love wh K-rock wh JannabiFans of Amerin die rock might feel at home wh “For Lovers Who Hate, ” a strg-lan slow jam om the soft-rock band Jannabi that has appeared on the Korean charts sce 2019, when me out on their breakthrough sophomore album, “Legend.
It seems even the most ttosterone filled, ass-kickg, “guy movi” n be turned to a homosexual love-ft wh a ltle edg and a touch of soft mic. Thanks go out to Sttie for lendg his favoure gay moment to the list (#6) and the always spirg Bill Simmons over at Sports Guy’s World for his thoughts on #7, which eventually led to the ia for this lumn.