Why did popstars stop being openly gay?

It took the south a few decades to realize those guys were gay but now theyre back to full lynch mode

>>69136687
It was a passing fad

>>69136687
that's not gay, it's designed to attract women

>>69136859
This.

jeeze, what i'd do to be a glamrocker in 1985 on the sunset strip. free pussy at every corner.

>>69136687

1. Stryper are not gay

2. It was the decision of the US record companies who wanted to directly compete with the "New Romantics" explosion in the UK.

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>>69137453

<<---this shit right here

>>69136978
Yeh but you'd have to deal with Christgau insulting you in every column/review he writes.

>>69137667
lol

>>69137667
I doubt Los Angelesites knew about a New York based critic like him. Ironically though, bands like Warrant were closer in spirit to the ancestral 50s rock-and-roll than half the alternative bands he jerked off to.

>>69137792
Guys like him wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They thought you could have fun rock-and-roll like in the 50s and then it should also be 2deep4u social commentary or some crap.

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Ah ha ha ha ha.

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>>69136705
this. people just didn't know about homosexuals 30, 40 years ago like they do today. rob halford took his entire persona from gay sex shops and got away with it

"I'm really glad Rob didn't come out back then. It would have been very bad for our image especially with how macho Judas Priest were seen as being."

-- KK Downing

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>>69138498
not to mention, the fucking village people had a song and music video commissioned by the US navy for recruitment. people literally thought this was a song supporting the navy:

https://youtu.be/mV8jVGzop6o

>>69138440
>>69138708
what's your endgame, christgauposter?

SHE'S MY CHERRY PIE
COOL DRINK OF WATER
WITH A SWEET SURPRISE