Are all the backstreet boys gay
TheBackstreetBoys were at a drag show when they first realized they had a gay following.
"We did three or four songs, the crowd went nuts and I was standing next to this 6-foot-6 kingly queen who gave me a clasp and a peck. I was beside myself, and that was when we first knew that we had a big gay following," A.J. McLean told Pride Source in a recent interview. "I was just like, 'Wow, this is kind of friggin' crazy.' Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3 and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by homosexual men and male lover women. I was hardly around anyone straight."
In the interview, McLean talks about shaving his legs and dressing up in drag. As for any sort of gay rumors surrounding him or the pop organization, he doesn't tend.
"Everyone always says, 'When you see at a male child band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't. Instead of me existence gay, I'm the fag hag," he said.
"I think it's awesome. It's great," McLean told Celebration Source. "I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame. There's one guy named Matt and he's a big, big Nick Carter fan. He's this older gentleman from Tampa and he's
Backstreet Boys love their gay fans.
The ‘I Want It That Way’ hitmakers are all “in touch with their feminine sides” and appreciate their gay fans because they are always up for having a fun time.
Asked why, unlike N*Sync, Boyzone, Westlife and New Kids On The Block, they have no same-sex attracted members, singer Nick Carter said: “I can’t explain why. I think a lot of the guys are in touch with their feminine side though, if that’s OK?
“We’ve definitely had a huge homosexual following at the concerts, and we love them. They know how to frickin’ party!”
Backstreet Boys are currently on a mutual tour with Novel Kids On The Block under the name NKOTBSB and Nick says the pairing works skillfully, because the two acts are so similar.
He said: “We come from two separate eras, but the similarities are that we dance, we chant and the songs were R ‘n’ B influenced.”
The singer also believes current boy bands should aspire to be like his group.
He added to Attitude magazine: “We come from an era of Take That, Recent Kids, N*Sync. I’m not trying to say we stay in the past, but when you think about wha
Backstreet Boys' A.J. McLean Talks Dressing in Drag, Admits to Being a "F-g Hag"
Backstreet Boys singer A.J. McLean is really opening up in a new interview with LGBT site Pride Source.
The 35-year-old boy bander is sounding off on everything from gay marriage, the band's gay fan ground , dressing in drag (remember that 2012 photo shoot?) and why he's dubbed himself the self-proclaimed "f-g hag" of the group!
"Thinking advocate on it, I've been in this business since I was 3 and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women," McLean said. "I was hardly around anyone straight."
McLean added that it's amazing he turned out straight. "Everyone always says, 'When you glare at a boy band, one of them has to be gay,'" he said, adding, "No, they don't. Instead of me being gay, I'm the f-g hag."
When asked what it feels like for gay fans to wish one or more of the Backstreet Boys members to be gay, McLean gushed, "I think it's awesome. It's great. I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've
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When the Backstreet Boys dropped their latest album's title track, "In a World Enjoy This," they did something exceptional with the video: They ended it with a victorious moment in LGBT history, as an older lesbian couple finally noted their right to marry.
We caught up with self-proclaimed "fag hag" AJ McLean, a founding member of one of the biggest-selling boy bands in history, to chat about how his queer friends (and "Same Love" rapper Macklemore) inspired that video, doing Marilyn Monroe in the nude for an upcoming novel and the time the band performed with men they mind were women.
The video for the album's first single, "In a World Like This," celebrates marriage equality. Why was it important to take that stance with that music video?
It stemmed from me personally. I have a lot of queer friends and two of my best friends have been together for almost 10 years. And living in California, it's been so friggin' frustrating to me that they could not acquire it right; they couldn't transfer the bill. Then, literally, right after we dropped the video, they actually passed the bill (allowing LGBT people to acquire married) in California, and I was just ecstatic. I