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A Tribute to Donna Summer
Grammy-winner Donna Summer, the “Disco Queen,” has died at 63. She has two songs on the Top Gay Songs list, “I Feel Love” and “No More Tears” with Barbara Streisand. Though Ms. Summer wasn’t gay herself, she was certainly an icon in the community.
Digging Up The Roots: The Literary Sources of Madonna’s Music
In the December 1994 issue of Details magazine, Madonna was interviewed about her sixth album, Bedtime Stories. In it she mentions an author she had been reading at the time, Jeanette Winterson, quoting a line from her novel Written on the Body, but she mistakenly states that it is from Winterson’s earlier novel, The Passion. [...]
Review: Darren Hayes’s Secret Codes and Battleships
The album’s overarching theme is the intensity of love and the complexity of relationships; the beauty and the sorrow of love and losing it…
The Two Faces of Madonna’s ‘Forbidden Love’
When Madonna released Confessions on a Dance Floor in 2005, it had a track titled “Forbidden Love.” In 1994, Bedtime Stories also had a track called “Forbidden Love.”
Madonna’s “Express Yourself”: An Anthem of Empowerment
I distinctly remember discovering my homosexuality in the summer of 1989, shortly after I had turned 12. Concomitantly, I discovered Madonna’s music, and the first song to pique my interest was her latest single, “Express Yourself.” Queer that I am, it immediately spoke to me, and remains my personal favorite, as well as the video, primarily because [...]
Gayest Music Video of All Time?
Family Guy Says So, So It Must Be True
According to Peter Griffin on Fox’s Family Guy, “1985 gave us the gayest music video of all time.” He’s talking about, of course, David Bowie & Mick Jagger’s Dancing in the Street. We don’t disagree.
What Is Elton John’s Gayest Song?
For an entertainer as popular and gay as Elton John, his music doesn’t necessarily reflect it to the degree that we’d think. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but at some point in his catalog of hits you’d see something over the top flamboyant like his 1970s stage costumes. Only one of his songs appears [...]
Decoding the (Dream) Language of Madonna’s “Bedtime Story”
“And all that you've ever learned . . . Try to forget . . . I'll never explain again”
Madonna is known to run the gamut in the type of songs she produces and performs. Some of her most psychologically honest and personal work began to appear with Like A Prayer and continued for about a decade through Ray of Light. I do not mean to say that before or after this period [...]
Who’s That Girl?: Madonna and the Philosophy of the Self
The most important legacy that Madonna has given to her fans and to the world at large is that of the power of the theatrical, or the art of performance. At 34, I have been a fan of the Queen of Pop since the age of 12 and can distinctly remember imitating her every move [...]
Smokin’ Acez at Sounds of Pride
Here’s more video from the Sounds of Pride Tour, this of Smokin’ Acez, a pair of rappers from Birmingham, Alabama. Follow them on Twitter. Let’s hope we hear more from these two. Here are some of their videos:
