Are any backstreet boys gay
Technically, Backstreet Boy AJ McLean is a fag stag, but we’ll let him pick his label! In a recent interview with PrideSource, AJ opens up about the gays’ love for the Backstreet Boys and the Backstreet Boys’ love for the gays:
On discovering the Backstreet Boys had a big lgbtq+ following:
We did a show years ago in Ybor Town in Tampa and Divine Brown — the girl who messed around with Hugh Grant help in the date (laughs) — was hosting a flamboyant show. We actually had no notion. We were all really young. Kevin (Richardson) was obviously older, so he had been around all his gays at Disney (when he worked there before Backstreet Boys) and he had been around kingly queens before Nick (Carter) and me. We were in our trailer and we were watching these guys switching. We thought these were chicks — and all of a sudden they were taking off their clothes and I’m like, “Wait, that girl’s got, like, pecs. And oh, that’s a penis.” I was like, “What the hell is going on?”
We did three or four songs, the crowd went nuts and I was standing next to this 6-foot-6 drag queen who gave me a hug and a kiss. I was beside myself, and that was when we first knew that we had a big same-sex attracted following. I wa
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When the Backstreet Boys dropped their latest album's title track, "In a World Fancy This," they did something particular 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 publication 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 male lover 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 receive 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
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 build, dressing in drag (remember that 2012 photo shoot?) and why he's dubbed himself the self-proclaimed "f-g hag" of the group!
"Thinking assist 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 glance 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 hope for 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
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 flamboyant queen who gave me a hold and a embrace. 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 same-sex attracted men and lgbtq+ 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 community, he doesn't nurture.
"Everyone always says, 'When you stare at a male child band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't. Instead of me entity gay, I'm the fag hag," he said.
"I think it's awesome. It's great," McLean told Identity festival 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