Why is kylie minogue a gay icon
Kylie Minogue on the First Time She Realized She Was a Gay Icon
If countless New Yorkers draped in rainbow finery filling the streets of Manhattan for the annual March isn’t enough Pride for you this upcoming Sunday (June 24), then what’s happening on Pride Island (the 32-year-old celebration formerly acknowledged as Dance on the Pier) should do the trick: International pop sensation Kylie Minogue will bring a rare stateside act following the release of her latest album, the Nashville-inflected Golden.
Speaking to Billboard ahead of the display, the Aussie pop queen reflected on the first time she realized she was a gay legend. And spoiler alert, it involves drag queens.
“It happened without me knowing it,” Minogue tells Billboard, explaining she became aware of her intense LGBTQ tracking in the late ’80s while visiting Sydney’s so-called “Gay Golden Mile.”
“I was in Sydney and there’s a famous bar on Oxford Street called the Albury, and at the time it was the gay bar in the gay area in Sydney. I was in the car, my manager was in the car with me along with a couple other people, and someone said R
Without a doubt, Kylie Minogue is an institution in the LGBTQ community. Whether it’s her music or her allyship, she has always been known as a pop legend who has achieved iconic status.
In a new, wide-ranging interview with GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos to celebrate Self-acceptance and uplift the LGBTQ community, global superstar Kylie Minogue talks about dense commitment to supporting the LGBTQ community and her subsequent road to becoming an LGBTQ icon. The performer also shares inspiring stories from her LGBTQ fans, discusses her fresh wine, and reveals her personal all time favorite fashion moment.
As a prominent figure in the LGBTQ society, Minogue is truly an ally and she recognizes the issues that our community has faced in history – specifically in the past couple of years. She strives to continue to help exaggerate the message of inclusivity.
“In all different communities everyone has to be heard — understood might not be easy,” she explained. “I think within acceptance is also acceptance that it might take a minute for other people to understand.”
Kylie Minogue performed at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City in 2014. View her perf
Kylie Minogue Finally Settles the Debate on the Definitive Lgbtq+ Anthem: Here’s Her Pick
There is no disbelieve that Kylie Minogue is a male lover icon. After organism adopted by the LGBTQ community preliminary on in her career, the luminary has made a point of always making her gay fans feel seen. Now, she’s ready to answer a vital question this Pride Month: What is the ultimate gay anthem?
On the latest episode of Watch What Happens Dwell With Andy Cohen on Tuesday (June 7), Minogue was asked a series of burning questions, including her thoughts on the greatest gay anthem of all time. The “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” singer accepted that there are “plenty” of songs that fit the criteria, but said she felt “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor was the GOAT.
The celebrity also spoke about “The Loco-Motion” and how, years after the song became her first punch, she has a complicated relationship with performing the road live. “I reflect it was a little awkward to do it for a number of years,” she said. “Then, we did a disco version of it on the Golden Tour in 2018, which was super joy. And now, when I do it at cert
How Kylie Minogue's Celebration anthem Padam Padam tapped into gay joy and TikTok to find a new gen Z audience
With Pride Month celebrations in complete swing across the United States, the soundtrack for homosexual partygoers has a noticeable Australian twang.
"I'll be in your head all weekend … Padam. Padam."
Just over a week before her 55th birthday, Kylie Minogue unleashed a fresh cultural phenomenon upon the world.
Padam Padam is shaping up to be the sound of summer on both sides of the Atlantic, giving Australia's pop icon her first truly global success in decades.
The fresh anthem has been embraced by the gay community, which remains Minogue's biggest fan group even as her maintain on the famous imagination has slipped in recent years.
And for those in the US, it could not have enter at a beat time.
"The single dropped serendipitously at a moment where the queer community in the US is feeling especially beleaguered, attacked, there include been coordinated actions to attack and demonise LGBTQ people here in the United States," explains Karen Tongson, who specialises in pop culture and gender studies at the University of Southern California.
How Kylie Minogue Became An LGBTQ+ Icon
Across later explorations with country music (Golden, 2018) and – almost inevitably – Christmas (Kylie Christmas, 2015), there’s one theme that Kylie keeps returning to: the dancefloor. 2020’s Disco and its subsequent special editions demonstrated the irresistible allure of the genre and its compatibility with Kylie’s core musical DNA. She went so far as to record with the famous Gloria Gaynor on Can’t Stop Writing Songs About You, but with singles such as Magic, and the duets with Years & Years (A Second To Midnight) and Jessie Ware (Kiss Of Life), Kylie was crafting tracks as creatively consistent as ever. If not for the COVID-19 pandemic, the supporting tour would hold been epic!
Kylie’s LGBTQ+ understanding: “There has never been any judgement”
Disco divas are arguably ten to the dozen, and gay men in particular have an inbuilt vulnerability to a sometimes lightweight appeal. What elevates the best of these women is a combination of knowing show (Cher), abundant empathy and good humour (OK, Cher, again) and take-no-prisoners attitude (sure… Cher and, of course, Madonna). Kylie, however, offers something truly dif