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sparkindarknessY'know I could write a whole post on this but it's pretty much been said in many many many places
So to sum up and to add my voice to the choir:
Sexy pop acts are not new. Madonna, Janet Jackson, Britney Speares, Lady Gaga and so many others have had such overtly sexual acts/back up dancers/performances for so long now it's pretty mundane. Groping dances, simulated sex, near nudity, huge great big sloppy, tonsil cleaning kisses.
This is no different - except it's guy/guy action (and yeah, he groped women in the performance as well - but tellingly no-one seems upset about that).
Don't tell me you're opposed to all the sexualisation in music - because you weren't screaming like howler monkeys before or about people ON THE SAME PROGRAMME sexing it up, het-style.
This is what being uncloseted means. I've said before about what it truly means to be OUT and this is it. Being "out" doesn't just mean you know we're gay and then we shut the hell up about it. It doesn't mean you know we're gay and then we try not to bring it up or avoid the subject to make sure the oh-so-tolerant straight people aren't made uncomfortable by the icky gay sex.
It means being out and open as much as heterosexuals. It means kissing in public, hugging in public. It means embarrassing teeny make out sessions, casual touching, talking about the things we did with our significant others.
It means gay characters on TV can kiss and leap into bed and do all the things straight characters can. And it means gay pop stars can be as raunchy and sexual as straight pop stars.
And if you ever thing that gay sexuality, sexiness, openness, expression etc is more inappropriate than equivalent heteroseuxal sexuality, sexiness, openness, expression etc then you are demanding we closet ourselves.
And that is one of the most evil things you can do to us.
So to sum up and to add my voice to the choir:
Sexy pop acts are not new. Madonna, Janet Jackson, Britney Speares, Lady Gaga and so many others have had such overtly sexual acts/back up dancers/performances for so long now it's pretty mundane. Groping dances, simulated sex, near nudity, huge great big sloppy, tonsil cleaning kisses.
This is no different - except it's guy/guy action (and yeah, he groped women in the performance as well - but tellingly no-one seems upset about that).
Don't tell me you're opposed to all the sexualisation in music - because you weren't screaming like howler monkeys before or about people ON THE SAME PROGRAMME sexing it up, het-style.
This is what being uncloseted means. I've said before about what it truly means to be OUT and this is it. Being "out" doesn't just mean you know we're gay and then we shut the hell up about it. It doesn't mean you know we're gay and then we try not to bring it up or avoid the subject to make sure the oh-so-tolerant straight people aren't made uncomfortable by the icky gay sex.
It means being out and open as much as heterosexuals. It means kissing in public, hugging in public. It means embarrassing teeny make out sessions, casual touching, talking about the things we did with our significant others.
It means gay characters on TV can kiss and leap into bed and do all the things straight characters can. And it means gay pop stars can be as raunchy and sexual as straight pop stars.
And if you ever thing that gay sexuality, sexiness, openness, expression etc is more inappropriate than equivalent heteroseuxal sexuality, sexiness, openness, expression etc then you are demanding we closet ourselves.
And that is one of the most evil things you can do to us.