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Contents:
- WHY DO GAY PEOPLE LIKE PAST- POPSTARS SO MUCH?
- MIGHTY HOOPLA 2023 REVIEW: 'I WAS SRED TO WALK TO THE FTIVAL AS A GAY PERSON BUT NATASHA BEDGFIELD RTORED MY HOPE'
WHY DO GAY PEOPLE LIKE PAST- POPSTARS SO MUCH?
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Why do gay people like past- popstars so much? Mighty Hoopla, the south London ftival now s third year, has firmly tablished self as one of the go-to events of London’s gay lendar, rivalled only by Pri.
Why do gay men like washed-up popstars so much? The much-vilified ‘Clapham gays’ (read: whe, upper middle class, basic, gym-f) were out force and I began to unrstand the vrl directed at their prence. After all, as a gay man, there’s nothg I hate more than seeg handsome men wh their shirts off.
MIGHTY HOOPLA 2023 REVIEW: 'I WAS SRED TO WALK TO THE FTIVAL AS A GAY PERSON BUT NATASHA BEDGFIELD RTORED MY HOPE'
“I feel like the terrible, mpy, tragiic liv that the ex-pop stars live appeals to the whe gay imagatn. In light of a homophobic attack jt days prr which left many queer people feelg profoundly troubled, there was a particular feelg of muny spir and fiant revelry. But I was there to fd out why gay people liked chey pop mic, not wax lyril about queer solidary.
But this seemed strange; why, when gay people’s childhoods are often so trmatic, is this somethg to which they’d want to return? If we’re talkg about gay men here, I thk ’s fair to say that the more feme – or otherwise genr non-nformg – you were childhood, the more likely you are both to have been really to pop mic and to have had a horrible time. “I thk that a lot of gays have an affectn towards that perd childhood when you’re primary school and ’s still enuraged for both boys and girls to do whatever and be whatever and drs whatever.
I thk there’s a nostalgia for that perd before the time they got to high school, which is stctured around hierarchi of genr, and before they experienced homophobia, when they felt like they uld be anythg. It’s not te for everybody that early childhood reprents a pre-homophobia En. Or for gog ‘yass’ wh the others gays, which giv you a sense of muny, ” he says.