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• 10 YEARS AGO, 'SHEER BLDG MAGIC' LNCHED BIG GAY ICE CREAM. NOW, IT'S A MASSIVELY POPULAR BS
• BIG GAY ICE CREAM SONG
• WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’
• ICE CREAM TCKCAZWELLPRODUCED BYCHRIS BRAC & CAZWELLHAVE YOU EVER LISTENED TO A GAY RAP SONG THAT WAS SUMMERTIME-HAPPY, BOTH LYRILLY AND PRODUCTN-WISE? WELL, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT CAZWELL’S “ICE CREAM TCK” IS, A SONG… READ MORE AUG. 17, 20101 VIEWER6.9K VIEWS8 CONTRIBUTORSICE CREAM TCK LYRICS[HOOK]MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI'LL WHIP OUT MY DMSTICKTHAT WILL MAKE YOUR EY GLEAMLICK UP QUICK BEFORE MELTS ON THE FLOORI GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK!MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI N TT OUT MY LUCKYOU N PLAY ON MY TEAMLET'S DO THE BANANA SPLON THE DANCE FLOOR GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK![VERSE 1]I MET HIM AT THE SCHOOL YARD 'ROUND QUARTER TO THREEWE WENT OUT FOR CHEEBURGERS WH EXTRA CHEEI GET MY ENCH I CRISPY KETCHUP ON THE SIAND WHEN TO SSERT THIS IS HOW I RI I SAID[HOOK]MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI'LL WHIP OUT MY DMSTICKTHAT WILL MAKE YOUR EY GLEAMLICK UP QUICK BEFORE MELTS ON THE FLOORI GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK!YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]YOU KNOW WHERE TO FD ME OM MAY TO JULYI'M ON THE SIWALK CHILL LOOK' ALL KDS OF FLYSOMETIM I GET LOW SOMETIM I GET HIGHI LIKE RABOW SPRKL ON MY ICE CREAM PIEYEAH RIGHT![HOOK]MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI'LL WHIP OUT MY DMSTICKTHAT WILL MAKE YOUR EY GLEAMLICK UP QUICK BEFORE MELTS ON THE FLOORI GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK!MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI N TT OUT MY LUCKYOU N PLAY ON MY TEAMLET'S DO THE BANANA SPL ON THE DANCE FLOOR GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK![OUTRO]RELAX TAKE EASYCHECK WHEN YOU SEE MEI'M CHILL WH AN ICE TEAWATERMELON ICEYRELAX TAKE EASYCHECK WHEN YOU SEE MEI'M CHILL WH AN ICE TEAWATERMELON ICEE1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• A TRIBUTE TO GOLN GAYTIME: ATRALIA'S FAVOURE ICE CREAM
• 10 YEARS AGO, 'SHEER BLDG MAGIC' LNCHED BIG GAY ICE CREAM. NOW, IT'S A MASSIVELY POPULAR BS

10 YEARS AGO, 'SHEER BLDG MAGIC' LNCHED BIG GAY ICE CREAM. NOW, IT'S A MASSIVELY POPULAR BS

The 2011 lnch of the first Big Gay Ice Cream shop, New York Cy's East Village, "was so horrendo and perfect that there is no way we uld e close to toppg , " says Qut, as he remisced about the roller-rby girl secury team workg the le; drag queen Ari Kiki pretendg to filch a ctomer's baby; eight ntrabassoonists performg the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey; and Anthony Bourda prit's garb liverg a benedictn. It is also the 10th anniversary of Big Gay Ice Cream, a four-store cha New York and Philalphia wh an unspecified number of new outlets the hopper and pts available through major retailers up and down both asts. ) Birthed a food tck by Qut and Bryan Petroff (then a uple, now not), Big Gay Ice Cream was meant to be a lark, a b of performance art, and a brief rpe for Qut, who was g off prehensive exams for his doctorate of mil arts.

BIG GAY ICE CREAM SONG

)Qut says Big Gay Ice Cream is not an LGBTQ brand so much as a brand that celebrat the humor, mp, and ksch embraced by gay culture. The word "gay, " he pots out, refers to orientatn but also to joy. And y, the flavor Dorothy--a mash-up of vanilla soft serve, dulce leche, and cshed Nilla Wafers--nods to the d term gay men ed 60 years ago to privately intify themselv to one another.

"Our sensibily is much more Janis Jopl meets Duran Duran than is gay bar, " Qut says. "At a time when pani wear their beliefs on their sleev, Big Gay Ice Cream is potedly nonpolil. "There have been a uple of tim when people have said, 'Oh, the owners aren't even gay.

WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’

This year she celebrated Valente's Day wh her hband at a Big Gay Ice Cream store. Kathleen McGivney's hband loved the ice cream so much that for his 30th birthday, 2009, she hired the tck to park outsi their buildg and serve n to party guts, whom she'd cked out paper beards ma by vertg the Big Gay Ice Cream logo.

ICE CREAM TCKCAZWELLPRODUCED BYCHRIS BRAC & CAZWELLHAVE YOU EVER LISTENED TO A GAY RAP SONG THAT WAS SUMMERTIME-HAPPY, BOTH LYRILLY AND PRODUCTN-WISE? WELL, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT CAZWELL’S “ICE CREAM TCK” IS, A SONG… READ MORE AUG. 17, 20101 VIEWER6.9K VIEWS8 CONTRIBUTORSICE CREAM TCK LYRICS[HOOK]MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI'LL WHIP OUT MY DMSTICKTHAT WILL MAKE YOUR EY GLEAMLICK UP QUICK BEFORE MELTS ON THE FLOORI GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK!MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI N TT OUT MY LUCKYOU N PLAY ON MY TEAMLET'S DO THE BANANA SPLON THE DANCE FLOOR GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK![VERSE 1]I MET HIM AT THE SCHOOL YARD 'ROUND QUARTER TO THREEWE WENT OUT FOR CHEEBURGERS WH EXTRA CHEEI GET MY ENCH I CRISPY KETCHUP ON THE SIAND WHEN TO SSERT THIS IS HOW I RI I SAID[HOOK]MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI'LL WHIP OUT MY DMSTICKTHAT WILL MAKE YOUR EY GLEAMLICK UP QUICK BEFORE MELTS ON THE FLOORI GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK!YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]YOU KNOW WHERE TO FD ME OM MAY TO JULYI'M ON THE SIWALK CHILL LOOK' ALL KDS OF FLYSOMETIM I GET LOW SOMETIM I GET HIGHI LIKE RABOW SPRKL ON MY ICE CREAM PIEYEAH RIGHT![HOOK]MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI'LL WHIP OUT MY DMSTICKTHAT WILL MAKE YOUR EY GLEAMLICK UP QUICK BEFORE MELTS ON THE FLOORI GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK!MEET ME AT THE ICE CREAM TCKI'LL BUY YOU AN ICE CREAMI N TT OUT MY LUCKYOU N PLAY ON MY TEAMLET'S DO THE BANANA SPL ON THE DANCE FLOOR GOT !UNO-DOS-TR-QUATRO GIMME SOME MORE OK![OUTRO]RELAX TAKE EASYCHECK WHEN YOU SEE MEI'M CHILL WH AN ICE TEAWATERMELON ICEYRELAX TAKE EASYCHECK WHEN YOU SEE MEI'M CHILL WH AN ICE TEAWATERMELON ICEE1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

He cid to ll "Big Gay Ice Cream Tck" until he thought of somethg better--and soon realized there was nothg better.

But Big Gay Ice Cream's social acunts kept attractg followers. "The Big Gay Ice Cream Tck was about so much more than a ol and lic dairy product, " says Ray, who is still a ctomer. Big Gay Ice Cream went search of a New York Cy standards, the pany's first store-- a former juice bar the East Village--was cheap.

Only one future lotn--on the Upper Wt Si--is fe, but Qut also anticipat plantg outlets on the Wt Coast and Boston and founrs aren't yet ready to anchise, which would stoke growth but also risk homogenizatn. "We try to make feel like every shop we open belongs that neighborhood and we didn't jt drop another Big Gay Ice Cream, " Qut says. Big Gay Ice Cream pts have lonized eezers CVS, Vons, Safeway, Albertsons, Shaw's, and many other retailers.

A TRIBUTE TO GOLN GAYTIME: ATRALIA'S FAVOURE ICE CREAM

The return of the Big Gay Ice Cream Tck to Manhattan's streets is also possible. Demonstrators rallyg support of creatg an ethnic studi partment at Harvard dispted an ice cream social Harvard Yard hosted Tuday afternoon by Universy Print Clde Harvard Yard event was part of a tr of ice cream socials around the Universy’s mp on Tuday, markg the begng of Gay's tenure as stops at the Harvard Medil School's Countway Library and the Bs School's Schwartz Pavilln, Gay greeted Harvard affiliat the Yard, chattg and takg, Gay pos for a photo taken by her chief of staff, Kathere O'Dair.

10 YEARS AGO, 'SHEER BLDG MAGIC' LNCHED BIG GAY ICE CREAM. NOW, IT'S A MASSIVELY POPULAR BS

O'Dair prevly served as Harvard's Universy Marshal and Dean of, ne stunt monstrators gather on the steps of Universy Hall, holdg signs and chantg, “Hey, Print Gay!

”The monstrators spoke wh Gay, who affirmed her support for ethnic studi but told monstrators that creatg an ethnic studi partment would require faculty the right, Aaryan K.

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