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She lost countless fans when she began openly inviting speculation about her sexual orientation over 30 years ago, culminating with her book “Sex.” She not only ate with that, she ate ass with that.
Last year, Madonna took part in a silly TikTok video in which she tossed her panties at a wastebasket. “It was all over the place and a big, huge topic—people were against it, people were for it, I had never had that much media attention.
Madonna made tons of songs and accompanying music videos where the men were the sex objects. Because Madonna was there, and because she made the most of her time there, and because she shows every sign of trying to keep doing so until someone is rolling around on her grave like she did on her mom’s in “Truth or Dare,” the truth is that Madonna, like all icons, means a lot to so many of us, sometimes for reasons beyond her own doing, sometimes for reasons even she dares not guess.
And when someone gives you joy and strength and inspiration, let alone for 40 years, that is always worth celebrating.
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Celebrating 35 Years of Madonna, a Generation’s LGBTQ Icon
On July 27, 1983, a scrappy singer from Detroit named Madonna released her self-titled debut album.
The album peaked at number eight, but by the end of the year, it had produced its first hit single, “Holiday.” In January of 1984, while promoting that song, Madonna appeared on American Bandstand.
It was one of the very first movies to capture real-life gay men—Madonna’s dancers on the tour—being themselves out, loud, and proud. It proved to be life-changing, not only for her but also for the LGBTQIA+ community. 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.
Her dance teacher who encouraged her to follow her dreams and move to New York? Apart from featuring erotically charged, gay-themed numbers and male dancers in high heels, Madonna explicitly challenged the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws in a speech during the show.
“The gay community and gay people, here and all around the world, have the same rights to be treated with dignity, with respect, with tolerance, with compassion, with love,” she declared, before asking the crowd, rhetorically, “Are you with me?” It was her making good on a promise she made a few days before the show to speak out against legislation adopted by the city earlier that year which imposed fines for spreading homosexual “propaganda” that could “damage the health, moral and spiritual development” of minors.
Had she winked at us at arm’s length, as many gay-household-name divas have since, her already incredible career would have been all the more monumental. It’s a huge change for an artist whose concessions on the dance floor have been many, but whose approach to touring has been to focus on what’s new and to dole out what’s the opposite of new judiciously, even stingily.
Yes, I realize that she’s a heterosexual woman–it doesn’t matter to me. For a gay kid, who was keenly aware the world at large mostly hated him, it meant everything to have the world’s biggest music star on your side.
Her peak moment as a queer icon came in the early ’90s, when two of her dancers, Jose and Luis Xtravaganza from the Harlem “House Ball” scene, (popularized in the documentary Paris is Burning and the current FX series Pose) introduced Madonna to a dance called “Voguing.” Madonna turned that dance into a one of her most iconic songs, and when it came time film the video, she made sure to put those same dancers in the spotlight.
Contrary to popular belief, queering her work did not usurp anything. “Take my money!” gays often say when their divas pull up with fresh product. I felt a tingling sensation in my legs that was both powerful and relieving. And I will fight for you to the day I die.”
Spoken like the Mother that she truly is.