Madonna gay

‘Even I could fit in there,’ I thought.

“That moment changed my life. But the film’s impact on the LGBT community (the QIA+ would be added a decade or so later) was undeniable and indelible. Madonna, always the kind of girl unembarrassed to say she deserved that “Evita” Oscar (she did) and to call herself a revolutionary (she is) and to sing “You’re just jealous 'cause you can’t be me” (you are), got away with being aggressively user-unfriendly for over 30 years because she was young, and then looked young.

Madonna makes new revelation about sexuality as fans send support

Madonnacaused a stir on Sunday evening as she seemingly came out as gay in a playful TikTok video.

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Taking to the social media platform, the 64-year-old pop icon posted a video which saw her attempting to tackle a viral trend.

I felt a tingling sensation in my legs that was both powerful and relieving. And while it is OK for some artists to go all gray and demure, it should be equally OK, even encouraged, when Madonna vamps like Mae West (another maligned sex bomb with a killer body of work) or swears like a sailor, French kisses Jack Black (as she did in her tour announcement video) or forgets to wear anything but a gap-toothed grin.

I would never argue that Madonna is above criticism.

Both song and video became instant classics and paved the way for more queer representation in pop culture. She may not have had a top ten hit since 2008, but that last entry capped off a 25-year run of hits, which is unprecedented in a musical landscape that remains infinitely more unforgiving to women than men. The same. Her songs, with very few exceptions, are not guilty pleasures; they’re classics that defined (and defied) multiple eras and genres.

Madonna’s diehards know what we were doing when she behaved un-“Like a Virgin” on MTV; when she warbled about being great with child on “Papa Don’t Preach,” giving Tipper Gore hysterical morning sickness; when “Like a Prayer” first blessed the radio; when she rapped (it is a rap) all our favorite movie stars on “Vogue”; when she stepped out onto that balcony to command “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”; when she let loose with that primal scream in “Ray of Light”; when she stalked her catwalk, a Leo in a leotard, to “Hung Up”; and even when she went upside down during “Human Nature” on her Madame X Tour, making it harder to hang your shit on her.

There are examples of divas before Madonna who seemed aware of their LGBTQ+ audience, but Madonna was the first in the trenches with us.

But the things that are off-putting about Madonna to heteronormative culture only strengthen her relationship to queer fans. On the contrary, the queen of pop walks her talk when she decides to throw her support and weight behind something. No fear. Madonna isn’t one of them. When Dick Clark asked what her future plans were, her answer was simple, but prophetic: “to rule the world.”

Thirty five years later, we know Madonna made good on her word.

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In 2012, Madonna held a show in the Russian city of St. Petersburg as part of her MDNA world tour. And I will fight for you to the day I die.”

Spoken like the Mother that she truly is.

And on went that list of influential people in her life.

When our own government was ignoring the thousands of mostly gay men dying of AIDS, Madonna was a champion for AIDS activism.

And especially from women past 60.

Maybe that is why Madonna still matters so much to so many. “I thank you.

It was also, because of Madonna’s popularity, the first “gay” movie many people saw.

Not many 15-year-olds in 1986 cared what Elizabeth Taylor had to say on the subject, but we did listen to Madonna. Her 1989 album “Like A Prayer,” included a pamphlet about AIDS awareness. Most were afraid to be associated with what was called back then as the “gay plague.” Even then President Ronald Reagan didn’t publicly acknowledge it until 1985.

Not Madonna.

Truth or Dare dares audiences with
truthful depiction of queerness

A year after Vogue, Madonna doubled down on queer representation on screen with Truth of Dare, the documentary film for her 1990 Blond Ambition world tour. It was her first career retrospective and featured some of the most important elements in her artistic and personal journey so far.