New gay pop stars who have emerged include Australia’s Troye Sivan, whose most recent album, 2018’s Bloom, explicitly discussed gay sex and the similarly forthright Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander, who has always embraced queerness in his work and public persona. The last decade in music has arguably been the queerest since the 1980s. She re-queered a mainstream that had fallen back into heteronormative mundanity.” But a decade on, with Gaga successfully branching out into film and TV, how queer is the mainstream? As Brian O’Flynn wrote in The Guardian: “Gaga did for my generation what Bowie did 20 years earlier. Gaga’s ascension was about more than eccentric costumes and ridiculous wigs. She was a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ rights both on and off the stage, but her vocal support for the queer community and her own bisexuality didn’t hamper her success. Ten years ago, Lady Gaga became a global star at a time when the pop charts were politically sanitised. Why Tales of the City is the ultimate LGBTQ+ fantasy But have these advances been matched by a more fundamental shift in attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people - and is that evident in popular culture?
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You can pre-order Russell Tovey’s Gay Times cover issue here for the full interview and photoshoot.The 2010s have been a decade where LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms have advanced significantly in the west – superficially, at least. Russell Tovey stars in The Lover and The Collection as part of the Pinter At The Pinter season. I just want to be with that person whoever that person is.”
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The actor also confesses that he’s “very, very, very vanilla,” going on to add: “I’m a one-man guy. That is far sexier than being sent someone’s dick pic,” he says. “It’s so much more exciting when you’re in a bar and you catch someone’s eye and you smile and go over and shake someone’s hand. When it comes to dating, Russell reveals that he much prefers an unexpected encounter in a bar, rather than trying to match with someone on a dating app. He adds: “I just hope everyone comes off the apps and gets back out there in the bars. Not gay men or lesbians but straight young teenage couples.” “Walking up Wardour Street, it felt like everyone was in their 20s, boys and girls snogging against walls. “I went out in Soho on Saturday night and ended up in Freedom, which I’ve always loved and it felt like the gay people in there were in the minority suddenly,” he explains, not that he minded, just that he noticed.
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That’s now a consideration’…” he says.īut he adds that the flipside of that acceptance is that we now live in a world where traditionally gay spaces are open to everyone. “On the one hand, nowadays, when you go out with someone as a gay man, you’re getting asked, ‘When are you getting married? Are you having kids?’ and that’s something that’s only happened since the laws have changed and suddenly you’re like, ‘I can do this. The star talks everything from the possibility of a gay Doctor Who, to the #MeToo movement in our cover interview with him, while also reflecting on the ever-changing face of the gay scene in London, and dating in general.
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The British actor covers the September issue of Gay Times to mark the launch of his pair of one-act Harold Pinter plays that will run as part of the Pinter At The Pinter season between 13 September to 20 October. You’re not going to find Russell Tovey on a dating app anytime soon…