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Stevie Nicks, Gay Icon
One of my humble missions on this big blue marble is to expand the notion of what a gay icon is. And people, you won’t detect a bigger gay magnet than the white winged dove, the leather and lace-clad gypsy, the Welsh witch herself – Stevie Nicks. She performs tomorrow night (Aug 12) at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie in support of her latest album In Your Dreams.
Nicks was an obsession of mine during the first half of high school. My parents thought I had a crush on her. (Poor deluded souls — they also thought the poster of Marilyn Monroe on my bedroom wall was a sign of heterosexuality). But I didn’t lust after Nicks, I admired her — there was something about her velvety nasal voice purring testimonials about enchanted worlds complete of fickle lovers that really hooked me.
As I got older, I came to realize that A) Nicks has recorded her share of mediocre tuneage but B) she is a very underrated songwriter. But back to the gay part: In 2006, Rufus Wainwright famously picked her as one of his unsung gay icons, declaring: “She separates absorbing homosexuals from uninteresting ones.” (I’ll take that compliment). Just last May, the annual New
Move over, Cher. Stevie Nicks has just been declared an icon by the gay community. Specifically, MTV Networks’ gay-themed Logo channel has announced that the Fleetwood Mac singer / songwriter will be the first subject of a new series of specials dubbed “NewNowNext Icons.”
The shows will focus on “the timeless tune legends that own reached icon status in the eyes of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, pansexual and transgender) society and the greater world of pop culture,” according to a Logo expression.
In the half-hour premiere airing at midnight EDT/PDT on July 19, Nicks will share her thoughts on why the LGBT group has embraced her music and persona, Logo said. She will also confer her career, inspirations and future projects. Music videos for tunes such as “Landslide,” “Gypsy” and “Stand Back” will also be featured. A Logo spokesman declined to recognize the subjects of additional “NewNowNext Icons” specials.
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5 Reasons Stevie Nicks Is, In Truth, a Gay Icon
The internet was set ablaze last week when Thorgy Thor, the now-eliminated competitor from season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, appeared to claim on national television that Stevie Nicks was not a male lover icon. Thorgy since clarified her stance, telling Billboard the show’s editing was misleading and that she actually said, “Stevie Nicks is not a gay icon who can win at a gay kingly queen competition next to the divas in this challenge.”
Even so, it needs to be reiterated that Stevie Nicks is unequivocally a gay icon. Over the decades Stevie has garnered a monumental gay fan monitoring, which she regularly acknowledges. Along with her shoutout on Drag Race, here are five more reasons that Stevie Nicks deserves her gay icon status.
1. She recognizes LGBTQ people as people first.
When sitting down for an interview with OUT Magazine, Nicks could contain given any multitude of answers as to why she thinks she has such a enthusiastic gay fanbase. But the answer she gave was so much more insightful. “I can’t exclaim that I’m so glad that same-sex attracted people like my music, because I have nev
StevieNickshas long courted a sizable lgbtq+ fanbase -- not that it's ever occurred to her in any formal way.
"I can’t say that I’m so content that gay people like my music, because I have never looked at gay people as different from any other people," the singer-songwriter, 66, tells Out magazine's Michael Martin. As for what she'd have done if she herself were gay, she added, "The second that I knew, I would have said, ‘OK, everybody, this is how it is, and either you still like me or I don’t care.’ I think that if you are gay, you just have to say ‘It’s great!’"
Nicks is currently enjoying the throes of a comeback, thanks to appearances on "American Horror Story," a world tour with Fleetwood Mac and a mentoring stint on "The Voice." She's gearing up to release "24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault" on Oct. 7.
Of her newly-released song, "Mabel Normand," which was written about a 1920s silent performer who she described as "the rock luminary of her time," Nicks noted, "I wanted it to be something that somebody having a problem with drugs can rest down and listen to 5,000 times. Try and let it be an epiphany for you, 18-year-old person that is doing a lot of coke and smoking he