Kylie Mogue on the First Time She Realized She Was a Gay In – Billboard

Contents:

• KYLIE MOGUE ON THE FIRST TIME SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN
• KYLIE MOGUE FALLY SETTL THE DEBATE ON THE DEFIVE GAY ANTHEM: HERE’S HER PICK
• KYLIE MOGUE’S “PADAM PADAM” IS THE GAY NONSENSE BOP WE NEED THIS PRI
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• KYLIE MOGUE OPENS UP ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE REALISED SHE WAS A GAY IN
• KYLIE MOGUE SHAR HER 'THEORY' AS TO WHY SHE WAS EMBRACED BY THE GAY MUNY
• KYLIE MOGUE ON BEG A GAY IN: I DIDN’T SET OUT TO BE CLIVE — ’S HOW I FEEL
• KYLIE MOGUE: 'I BEME A GAY IN BY BEG MYSELF'
• KYLIE MOGUE FEELS SOLIDARY WH GAY FANS: ‘THEY PROTECTED ME’
• KYLIE MOGUE: BEG A GAY IN ‘FEELS NATURAL’ TO ME

KYLIE MOGUE ON THE FIRST TIME SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN

"It happened whout me knowg , " Mogue tells Billboard, explag she beme aware of her tense LGBTQ followg the late '80s while visg Sydney's so-lled "Gay Goln Mile.

Speakg to Billboard ahead of the show, the Asie pop queen reflected on the first time she realized she was a gay in. “It happened whout me knowg , ” Mogue tells Billboard, explag she beme aware of her tense LGBTQ followg the late ’80s while visg Sydney’s so-lled “Gay Goln Mile. “I was Sydney and there’s a famo bar on Oxford Street lled the Albury, and at the time was the gay bar the gay area Sydney.

Sce then, Kylie’s given more than enough looks to populate an entire bar whout repeats, and her gay fan base has only grown. The track’s melancholic Hi-NRG productn, and s universal lyrics speakg of a romantic longg that might never be sated, nnected anilly wh a generatn of young gay men stgglg wh their place a wir society that was sred and then goad to antagonism by the AIDS crisis. PWL’s creative geni lay the balanced steer between the teen pop that led the rerd racks the UK high-street cha Woolworths and the vibrant personaly of the gay club scene.

KYLIE MOGUE FALLY SETTL THE DEBATE ON THE DEFIVE GAY ANTHEM: HERE’S HER PICK

And Shocked, Kylie first beme aware of the appeal she had on the gay scene.

She told Billboard: “I was Sydney and there’s a famo bar on Oxford Street lled the Albury and, at the time, was the gay bar  the gay area Sydney. She went so far as to rerd wh the legendary Gloria Gaynor on Can’t Stop Wrg Songs About You, but wh sgl such as Magic, and the duets wh Years & Years (A Send To Midnight) and Jsie Ware (Kiss Of Life), Kylie was craftg tracks as creatively nsistent as ever. Dis divas are arguably ten to the dozen, and gay men particular have an built vulnerabily to a sometim lightweight appeal.

In an terview wh Olly Alexanr of Years & Years, for London’s Eveng Standard, Kylie posned her reputatn as a gay in simply: “I didn’t set out to do that [be clive], is jt naturally how I feel.

KYLIE MOGUE’S “PADAM PADAM” IS THE GAY NONSENSE BOP WE NEED THIS PRI

Kylie Mogue Fally Settl the Debate on the Defive Gay Anthem: Here’s Her Pick. There is no doubt that Kylie Mogue is a gay in.

Now, she’s ready to answer a val qutn this Pri Month: What is the ultimate gay anthem? On the latt episo of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen on Tuday (June 7), Mogue was asked a seri of burng qutns, cludg her thoughts on the greatt gay anthem of all time. The “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” sger acknowledged that there are “plenty” of songs that f the creria, but said she felt “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor was the GOAT.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

I’m currently experiencg one of the gayt weeks of my life, which is sayg somethg. I’m Italy, where the gay choir I’m part of (strike one) is attendg a huge ftival of LGBTQ+ choirs (strike two).

It’s like Pch Perfect, but wh a lot more homosexuals and, of urse, more drama. When s openg bars played over the speakers, the gays heard her siren ll and were pelled to storm the dance floor. Last week, I found myself at London’s biggt gay club, G-A-Y, the Soho district.

KYLIE MOGUE OPENS UP ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE REALISED SHE WAS A GAY IN

Social media (Gay Twter, particular) went wild for the performance, which featured the sger thigh-high leather boots alongsi a squad of buff male dancers sktight ary-meets-sci-fi outfs. And ’s impossible not to notice that queer people, particularly gay men, have been drivg s meteoric rise.

)But why is “Padam Padam” a gay anthem?

KYLIE MOGUE SHAR HER 'THEORY' AS TO WHY SHE WAS EMBRACED BY THE GAY MUNY

It remds me of gog out gay-clubbg for the very first time and feelg like the world was my oyster.

KYLIE MOGUE ON BEG A GAY IN: I DIDN’T SET OUT TO BE CLIVE — ’S HOW I FEEL

) Pl, Mogue has had a huge gay fan base for s. Mastream (“Can’t Get You Out of My Head” was ubiquo for a time, but that was over 20 years ago, and her prev h here was 13 years before that), she matas an active cult followg among Amerin gays.

KYLIE MOGUE: 'I BEME A GAY IN BY BEG MYSELF'

There is a long-held pattern queer culture, and among gay men particular, which we st ourselv as early adopters of cultural trends, om fashn to mic.

KYLIE MOGUE FEELS SOLIDARY WH GAY FANS: ‘THEY PROTECTED ME’

A historic example would be San Francis’s Castro District the 1970s, durg the time of Harvey Milk, when there was an entire sartorial for gay men, acrdg to which not only different-lored handkerchiefs, but also everyday garments like Converse and plaid shirts all meant different thgs. (This language was unpacked Hal Fischer’s semal work Gay Semtics. 2001 bee the label emed “too mp” and went on to bee a gay favore.

) “Padam Padam” seems to have entered that same gay lexin, the shorthand many of e to munite wh each other. At the most basic level, there is nsirable crossover between mastream gay culture and meme culture.

KYLIE MOGUE: BEG A GAY IN ‘FEELS NATURAL’ TO ME

I’m generalizg here (and of urse, massively projectg), but beg pletely obssed wh somethg—a joke, a song, a meme—to the pot where be your entire personaly for a short perd of time is a distctly gay tra.