Gay and gay-subtext content in bands, performers, and individual songs from my childhood and beyond. Plus a few stage musicals, ballets, and operas.
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Annie Get Your Gun: Beefcake and a gay couple
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Barry Manilow: Coming out in high school
The Bay City Rollers
The Beastie Boys: The homophobic 1980s
The Beatles: Gayest Beatles songs
The Beatles: Most homophobic Beatles songs
The BeeGees: Kissing boys and stayin' alive
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (stage musical)
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Madonna: Why everybody in West Hollywood listened
Menudo: Latin American boy band
A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
Bobby Darin: 1950s dream lover takes a bath
Boyce and Hart
Brandon Cruz and his best friend
Bruce Springsteen: Gay ally with a sordid past
Chicago: Gay symbolism
Boyce and Hart
Brandon Cruz and his best friend
Bruce Springsteen: Gay ally with a sordid past
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The Chippendale Dancers
Cinderella: Men in tights
Cody Simpson and his gay crew
Craig Hundley: The angelheaded hipster
Cinderella: Men in tights
Cody Simpson and his gay crew
Craig Hundley: The angelheaded hipster
The ten most depressing Christmas songs
The Crosby Brothers
David and Andy Williams: Don't cry now
David Cassidy
The DeFrancos: Love beats
Don Giovanni: What's gay about Don Juan?
Donny Osmond
"Dude Looks Like a Lady"
The Hager Twins: Picking and Grinning
The Crosby Brothers
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David Cassidy
The DeFrancos: Love beats
Don Giovanni: What's gay about Don Juan?
Donny Osmond
"Dude Looks Like a Lady"
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H-I
Searching for beefcake in Hamlet
Hank Williams: A dynasty of homophobia
Herman's Hermits: Noone likes girls
How "I'm Coming Out" became a gay anthem
"I'm Too Sexy" for this song
Hank Williams: A dynasty of homophobia
Herman's Hermits: Noone likes girls
How "I'm Coming Out" became a gay anthem
"I'm Too Sexy" for this song
"It's Raining Men," Hallelujah!
Jackson Guthy: Teen idol with lots of male friends
Jim Morrison: Bisexual poet of the dark side
Jimmy Bennett: No ordinary teen idol
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Jim Morrison: Bisexual poet of the dark side
Jimmy Bennett: No ordinary teen idol
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jozin z Bazin: The Czech Swamp Monster and his boyfriend
Julio Iglesias and sons: The gay connection
Jozin z Bazin: The Czech Swamp Monster and his boyfriend
Julio Iglesias and sons: The gay connection
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Madonna: Why everybody in West Hollywood listened
Menudo: Latin American boy band
A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
The New Boyz: Shirtless Instagram Pics and a Gay Tweet
Ocho Rios: Tracking down a Jamaican bodybuilder
Ocho Rios: Tracking down a Jamaican bodybuilder
On the Town: Three sailors on leave in a gay city
"One Night in Bangkok," 300 nights at the gay Asian bar in Hollywood
Paul Anka: The gay guy next door
Paul Robeson: How do we know that he was gay?
Peer Gynt: Your grandfather's heterosexism
"One Night in Bangkok," 300 nights at the gay Asian bar in Hollywood
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P-Q
Paul Anka: The gay guy next door
Paul Robeson: How do we know that he was gay?
Peer Gynt: Your grandfather's heterosexism
Pippin: A gay piece of the sky
Porgy and Bess: Black beefcake folk opera
The Gay Rat Pack
Red Hot Chili Peppers: What the socks covered
"Relax": What is Frankie really saying?
Rex Smith: Not gay, in spite of the outfits
Ricky Nelson
Robert Goulet: 1950s gay icon
Rod Stewart: Gay rumors, heterosexist songs
Simon and Milo don't find true love
Porgy and Bess: Black beefcake folk opera
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: What the socks covered
"Relax": What is Frankie really saying?
Rex Smith: Not gay, in spite of the outfits
Ricky Nelson
Robert Goulet: 1950s gay icon
Rod Stewart: Gay rumors, heterosexist songs
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Simon and Milo don't find true love
A Streetcar Named Desire: 14 shirtless Stanleys
Subtext Songs of the 1980s
Ted Shawn: A life devoted to muscles in action
Tommy
Tom Jones: It's not unusual
Twelve Most Horrible Songs
Subtext Songs of the 1980s
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Tarzan: The Stage Musical: Major loincloth-clad hunkage
Tommy
Tom Jones: It's not unusual
Twelve Most Horrible Songs
