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Contents:
- THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
- WERE YOU AN ABBA GAY?
- GAY INOGRAPHY: FIVE OF ABBA’S MOST CLASSIC CLIPS
- HOW ABBA BEME A BELOVED GAY IN: THE SURPRISG STORY
- BJöRN ULVAS TERVIEW: ‘ABBA RETURNED TO MIC BEE OF GAY MUNY’
- CHER JT DROPPED THE GAYT ALBUM OF ALL TIME, AND WE’RE LOVG IT
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- IS "GAY" TO LIKE ABBA (OR OTHER POP ARTISTS)
- DANCG QUEEN GAYT EVER SONG
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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HOW ABBA BEME A BELOVED GAY IN: THE SURPRISG STORY
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BJöRN ULVAS TERVIEW: ‘ABBA RETURNED TO MIC BEE OF GAY MUNY’
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CHER JT DROPPED THE GAYT ALBUM OF ALL TIME, AND WE’RE LOVG IT
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. 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.
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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. Amerin treasure (and gay in her own right) Meryl Streep starred alongsi Broadway vet Christe Baranski, Mean Girls alum Amanda Seyied and Col Firth. Gays (and their lucky straight iends) wave their arms, pose genuo, and sg shamelsly to the 45-year-old sweet pop standard that has bee synonymo wh queer nightlife.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Thanks to multiple rnatns on stage and on screen of “Mamma Mia!, Fabuloly garish stum by gay signer Owe Sandström, and perfectly crafted songs more retroactively popular than their heyday of the 70s and early 80s, ABBA has been the target of the LGBTQ mil universe for s.
IS "GAY" TO LIKE ABBA (OR OTHER POP ARTISTS)
Ostensibly cheerful but filled wh drama and sprkled wh Sndavian melancholy, the pop of the Stockholm mixed quartet has put together the glz of untls gay and gay groups, om Kylie Mogue to Lady Gaga, om Adam Lambert to Lil Nas X – a sgular achievement for a group that had not produced an album for 40 years.
This week by releasg “Voyage”, his first new LP sce 1981 and a teaser for next year’s London gigs featurg 3D avatars, ABBA is to many gay fans what the Rollg Ston are to straight guys – archetyp whose appeal transcends time, place and age.
Back the days when Donna Summer reigned as the disputable dance queen, ABBA hadn’t performed much gay clubs, not even you know what: Dis’s top mixer, Tom Moulton, nsired “Dancg Queen” perfect. Y, there were exceptns: Larry Levan – the fluential black gay DJ at New York’s legendary and mostly Black / LGBTQ Paradise Garage – loved Cher’s “Take Me Home”.
DANCG QUEEN GAYT EVER SONG
But gay DJs and their dienc mostly favored unrground divas and obscure orchtral matros they disvered and popularized, and not h pop acts om AM rad.
Like Llie’s equally beloved mix of Jimmy Ruff’s “Hang on to My Love, ” Rodriguez’s ABBA transformatn only appeared on Dis, a subscriptn-based remix service owned by gay people.
This forced a 12-ch overseas release of the relatively ordary “Lay All Your Love on Me’s” LP that prerved the exclivy of Rodriguez’s versn, while s longevy proved that dancers – pecially gays – had. In 1982, ABBA’s North Amerin label released their uptempo track “The Visors” as a sgle, but aga, a subscriptn-based gay remix service, Hot Tracks, provid the expand versn.