Is this really any different from the New Romantics of the early 1980s (for example)?https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1150329084695797760 …
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The difference is that the New Romantics knew they were just dressing up. Same with Bowie in the Seventies, and Glam Rock, and right back to the Dandies a century earlier.
Maybe. But Boy George & Marilyn, for example, were certainly not (initially) forthcoming about their gender, etc. Also, the language of binary/non-binary wasn't available to them. If it had been...
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Yeah, this. Gender fluid was certainly a thing ... and even by the late 1980s it was "dangerous" to be out and gay or bi Music and dress and fashion and hair was how you got to be yourself If anything, it's now almost OK to be gay and a CEO and a Republican and a Christian
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Boy George and Marilyn were perfectly clear they were male. They never suggested they were "really" female. What they were ambiguous about was their sexuality as coming out as gay for a mainstream musician was widely seen as career death.
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Boy George and Marilyn have always been clear they are make; Annie Lennox has always been female. Many artists hid their sexuality but they didn’t deny their sex.
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I could be misremembering, but my recollection is that when Boy George first arrived on the scene there was speculation about his sex, which he wasn't in a hurry to clear up. It was only when he began to get big interviews he made it clear.
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I've been trying to find coverage in The Sun from back then, but can't! You could be right.
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