Why Gen-Z are turning their backs on the gay icon
Certain female artists are totemic to the gay community – but recently Gen Zs have moved their devotion elsewhere
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Certain female artists are totemic to the gay community – but recently Gen Zs have moved their devotion elsewhere
At 1am on the Friday of this year’s New York Pride weekend, Kylie Minogue took to the stage at The Knockdown Center, a converted factory in Queens. She wore a red customised boilersuit, embellished with sparkling diamanté, towering heels and her signature smile, while performing her omnipresent summer hit, Padam Padam.
Nicky Spence, Pavel Kolesnikov and the CBSO are joined by a line-up of star performers celebrating individuality in classical music
Yesterday morning followed its usual pattern of early morning events for me, but for one notable change in circumstance. On the iphone I reach for the second my eyes open a decorous new squiggle avatar appeared, a memorable addition to the banking apps, endless snapshots, email chains, texts, whatsapps, notes, calendars, weather veins, Wordle reminders, headlines, playlists, DMs and (cough, cough) all that other stuff which lives on our hand-held brains. Before the customary cup of tea and cuddle, the telephone was ready to roll and scroll me into a day fresh with possibilities, potholed with ...