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THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

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WERE YOU AN ABBA GAY?

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GAY INOGRAPHY: FIVE OF ABBA’S MOST CLASSIC CLIPS

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This week releasg “Voyage, ” s first new LP sce 1981 and a teaser for next year’s London ncerts featurg 3D avatars, ABBA is to many gay fans what the Rollg Ston are to straights — archetyp whose appeal transcends time, place and age. Y, there were exceptns: Larry Levan — the fluential gay Black DJ at New York’s legendary and largely Black/LGBTQ Paradise Garage — adored Cher’s “Take Me Home.

HOW ABBA BEME A BELOVED GAY IN: THE SURPRISG STORY

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” But gay DJs and their dienc mostly favored unrground divas and obscure orchtral matros they disvered and popularized, not succsful pop acts plucked om AM changed the early ’80s when the U. ”Like Llie’s siarly beloved mix of Jimmy Ruff’s “Hold on to My Love, ” Rodriguez’s ABBA transformatn appeared only on Dis, a gay-owned subscriptn remix service. This forced a 12-ch release overseas of “Lay All Your Love on Me’s” paratively ordary LP cut that prerved the exclivy of Rodriguez’s versn, while s longevy proved that dancers — particularly gay on — still craved fast and lty club anthems.

BJöRN ULVAS TERVIEW: ‘ABBA RETURNED TO MIC BEE OF GAY MUNY’

In 1982, ABBA’s North Amerin label issued s kdred uptempo tune “The Visors” as a sgle, but once aga, a gay subscriptn-only remix service, Hot Tracks, supplied the extend ABBA that year rerd what would be for s s fal ssns, U. Producers such as Stock Aken Waterman filled the void wh gay-targeted “hi-NRG” tracks that crossed to the mastream via Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Mogue and Summer, while everyone om the Lat Rasls to the Pet Shop Boys replited Rodriguez’s mache-gun hi-NRG ran s urse, England’s Erasure released 1992’s “Abba-que, ” a love letter of ver versns.

CHER JT DROPPED THE GAYT ALBUM OF ALL TIME, AND WE’RE LOVG IT

Its gay lead sger, Andy Bell, and his straight synth sikick Vce Clarke even re-created their source material’s “Take a Chance on Me” vio drag, wh U.

In 1994, the oldi promently popped up the movi “Muriel’s Weddg, ” which gave gay fave Toni Collette her big break, and “The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert, ” a trans-tastic road edy. At the absolute nadir of the AIDS plague, ABBA was reborn to paragons of gloom-relievg if bombastic outfs and bubblegum hooks had been the only gear ABBA gave to LGBTQ culture, s gay appeal would’ve plummeted after the lifavg arrival of antiviral cktails.

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Our survival strategy has always been to unter hate wh love; we manift gayns to endure s on the most fundamental level, ABBA’s heterosexualy is more overt than the straightt rock dus.

IS "GAY" TO LIKE ABBA (OR OTHER POP ARTISTS)

This is ABBA’s gift to LGBTQ culture — an oasis wh the mega-mastream that Rodriguez and other gay pneers helped Walters is the thor of the forthg book “Mighty Real: The Mic That Built LGBTQ Ameri. The band which nsists of Agha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvas, Benny Anrsson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad are llectively gay ins and they know an terview wh Gay Tim, Ulvas spoke about the groups return to mic, notg that they were "very proud" of the outpourg of love to ABBA om LGBTQ+ fans, "We found out que early that Dancg Queen had bee an anthem and we were very proud that we've been chosen by the muny, " he told the outlet. As a heavy metal, alternative, noise-rock lovg, goth-adjacent weirdo loner gay, that was hard to take growg up (and was harr for my poor parents’ ears, I’m sure...

DANCG QUEEN GAYT EVER SONG

He scribed once tryg to expla the band's gay followg to Ulvas, sayg “At the time, gay men of my generatn were dyg of AIDS unprecented numbers, and so my explanatn of ABBA's largely gay-driven rurgence foced on pism, cheerg grievg spir and the group's accintal humor.

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