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• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

There are key, and somewhat problematic, box a pop star mt check if they are to bee a gay (male) in: looks; tours heavily featurg male dancers sheathed mcle; support of mimum one LGBTQIA+ chary. Ined, the gay-in-gay-stan nex is ltered wh misogyny and homophobia, but this isn’t for here. And yet Robyn is a full-on gay in.

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ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN

” The track was later immortalized a touchg scene Girls, which Hannah danc out her tratn at disverg her boyiend is gay, cementg s stat as both a cult classic and the ultimate sad-banger. Robyn is nsired one of the most beloved gay ins pop (we probably won’t have to wa long til she gets her own star on the Gay Walk Of Fame after Xta), but ’s not jt a superficial queer knighthood— the Swedish sger tells Out magaze that she personally intifi wh the LGBTA muny even though she isn’t a lbian.

Her h “Dancg On My Own” has bee somewhat of a gay anthem, though she didn’t thk of that way while wrg . “Gay culture has always had to embody outsirship. I thk ’s a song about beg on the outsi — very physilly— and if feels like a gay anthem then I take that as a super pliment.

If you’re not a Robyn fan, you’re not gay. I told Robyn about this POV om the gay Twter llective when I lled her direct on Skype recently – was remarkably human of the pop godss to answer, wh no publicist listeng — and wh a tter she said: “Well, that particular, uh, viewpot is maybe a ltle extreme, my md. Same go for a Robyn ncert, perhaps the clost thg to a gay nightclub that’s not an actual gay nightclub.

In the sce “Body Talk, ” when the late-’90s artist reemerged a cult force the ghts, the gay in has culled a aln of unrground outsirs and outsts by cuttg through pop-culture excs wh the rart of pop-star featur: her sire to be human first, pop artist send. The rt of my Skype nversatn wh Robyn was spent talkg about why she thks ’s important artists unrstand the queer referenc they e their work, the precise reason she’s proud “Dancg On My Own” beme a gay anthem, and how her current post-tomboy femy is, for her, “almost like draggg.

There’s a tradn wh the gay muny gravatg to mic that is melodic and melancholy, maybe the same (song). You n hear ABBA, you n hear the tradn of Brish gay bands and gay artists that have always champned this way of sgg about emotns, whether ’s like Erasure, or even Queen.

There’s a tradn there wh gay mic culture that I always felt was somethg that I nnected to. Some of my parents’ iends were gay and some of them were people I liked, but I don’t know if I n say that I had an unrstandg of the gay muny through my parents.