[ SECRET POST #3905 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3905 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/wgNrQPS.png

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, fuck it, you are who you are

[(Anonymous)]

I'm gay and I also am hugely disinterested in most "gay icons". Seriously, it's not my thing. I like fantasy sci-fi. I like gayness in it, don't get me wrong, I read mostly bl and gl, but I am immensely bored by most "LGBT fiction" because I don't want to read about rainbow parades and fighting the patriarchy.

[greghousesgf]

thank you for making me hurt the shit out of my neck.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so glad I use a laptop.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really like most of David Bowie's work either, and I've made an effort to get into it. It sounds horrible to me to suggest that someone should like his stuff just because he's a "bi icon" or whatever. His music could get a bit tonally discordant, oddly paced, and sad-sounding.

One of my best friends really likes Elton John and Barry Manilow. He's straight; he just likes that kind of thing. (He's a bit nerdy; his only Queen album is A Kind of Magic.)

It'd be kind of funny if someone tried to figure out my sexuality from what I listen to. I mean, I can see how they intersect, but nah.

There are some pretty good LGBT musicians, but they're good musicians who happen to be LGBT, you know?

I remember I kind of liked Melissa Etheridge because she sung just like a rock guy. I like Kaki King's guitar work, and that leads me to like her; but I didn't start with, "Hey, let's support her because she's queer;" I didn't know what her sexuality even was! And there's Tracy Chapman, who seemed determined not to be an LGBT icon; I just like her voice. It would be weird to keep those three in a box in my head labeled "dyke" instead of where they fit among musicians I like.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It's kind of weird to put David Bowie and Barry Manilow in the list, since Bowie thrived on false identities and ambiguity, while I think Manilow just came out of the closet.

[(Anonymous)]

It's okay, as long as you don't shit on people who do

[(Anonymous)]

I only like Bowie because my mom liked him and his music was an important part of my childhood, I didn't learn he was a queer icon until way later so what I'm trying to say here is you like what you like

[ill_omened]

"I don't like Bowie"

Wew lads. Been a while since we've had something that should be a secret rather than an opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

rack em

[(Anonymous)]

It's okay to dislike David Bowie. You don't have to support or like every queer icon! :)

Sincerely, a Bowie fan.

[rosehiptea]

Eh, I'm a bi woman but there are a lot of "queer fandoms" I have no interest in. Most m/m stuff really doesn't do much for me.

As for queer icons I don't even know who a lot of them are, though part of that is because I'm old. (I love Bowie but that is probably also because I'm old.)

[(Anonymous)]

You aren't required to like gay icons just because you're LGBTQ yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm all for representation, but not every thing by every person in every part of the rainbow is going to be My Kind of Thing. It's kind of silly to assume that it would be?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't either, and generally I don't get shit from anyone my age. the older gays however, will tear my fucking head off for not caring about Madonna or Judy Garland.

[(Anonymous)]

Are they even gay/bi?

I don't get why people decided that some straight women are "gay icons" - did the women themselves want that status?

[(Anonymous)]

Even just reading their wikipedia pages would tell you this, come on.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, at least Bowie admitted that calling himself bisexual was the biggest mistake he ever made or whatever, so don't feel too bad about him. I blame Tumblr (and it's about the only thing I blame Tumblr for) for spreading a list of false bi icons. Freddie Mercury being another big example, though I guess at least Bowie publically self identified as bi for a while before going back on it.

[(Anonymous)]

Bowie's brief bi-promotion played out in the late 60s/early 70s; he didn't retract it til the 90s, iirc.

To me, the reason he can be claimed as a LGBT+ icon is that he (and Marc Colan) were icon more of gender-fluidity in the form of the glam movement.

[(Anonymous)]

*Marc Bolan

[arcadiaego]

Well you're out of the club now, that's it. No gay for you. ;)