Mara Opens Up About Social Media & Shamg Women Onle Mara, formerly known as Mara + The Diamonds, is on the ver of the May 2019 issue of Gay Tim, out now. Here's what the 33-year-old LOVE+FEAR sger had…
Contents:
- MARA AND THE DIAMONDS ON NERVO BREAKDOWN, GAY FOLLOWG & BEG ONE OF THE ‘GREATS’
- 'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
- MARA DIAMANDIS CALLED OUT CELEBRI THAT PANR TO GAY AUDIENC AND WE LOVE HER FOR IT
- MARA & THE DIAMONDS: ‘IF YOU GIVE A SH*T ABOUT YOUR GAY FANS YOU SHOULD DO MORE THAN TWEET ABOUT IT”
- IS MARA DIAMANDIS GAY
- THE WEIRST, GAYT, AND MOST UNNVENTNALLY POP OF MARINA, ACRDG TO MARA DIAMANDIS
- MARA DIAMANDIS CALLED OUT CELEBRI THAT PANR TO GAY AUDIENC AND WE LOVE HER FOR IT
MARA AND THE DIAMONDS ON NERVO BREAKDOWN, GAY FOLLOWG & BEG ONE OF THE ‘GREATS’
For gay men, ‘stanng’ – beg a super fan of – female pop stars n be a valuable part of your inty. But too often this fandom laps to misogyny and body shamg * is marina diamandis gay *
In our terview, Mara chatted about how the character has more to do wh her than you thk, beg the “only gay the village” and not talkg about the dirty tle pun of her first album … until now. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but some of your fans are gay. Tthfully, I’d say 60 percent gay, 40 percent teen girls.
When did your relatnship start wh the gay dience? On the first album I fely did have a gay fan base, but was much smaller, bee I’m a very flamboyant character and the shows are really theatril. But I don’t really talk about the whole gay muny thg, bee I don’t want to be a cliche pop star sayg like, “I love my gays!
'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
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What was the gay scene like where you’re om Wal? (Lghs) I didn’t really see any kd of gay scene until I moved to London when I was 19.
I was the only gay the village! You’ve said that you relate to your gay fans, and obvly they relate back to you.
Also, on this album, a lot of the humor has really ught the gay muny’s attentn. As far as the whole rtoon persona go, do you thk your gay dience appreciat your flamboyant look and fashn more than your mastream dience?
MARA DIAMANDIS CALLED OUT CELEBRI THAT PANR TO GAY AUDIENC AND WE LOVE HER FOR IT
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No, but gay people pick up on thgs a ltle b quicker and sense stuff that is potentially unrground or que cultish and is gog to bee bigger before a mastream dience will. Mara n be heard loud and clear while servg major dish on a variety of hot topics: lbian mors, Katy Perry parti, terviews she lls “plete sh” and what she thks of artists who panr to the gay muny (Ht: “It’s sultg”).
MARA & THE DIAMONDS: ‘IF YOU GIVE A SH*T ABOUT YOUR GAY FANS YOU SHOULD DO MORE THAN TWEET ABOUT IT”
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A lot of the reason I thk I have a gay fan base is bee a lot of the them, and the re of the songs, are ually stemmg om somethg to do wh inty or acceptance. When we spoke 2012, you were reluctant to gh too much about your gay fan base. At the time you said, “I don’t want to be a cliche pop star sayg, ‘I love my gays!
'” When do talkg about one’s gay fan base bee a cliche?
IS MARA DIAMANDIS GAY
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I felt that people pop e that to exprs themselv that way for lculated means bee they know the gay fan base is extremely loyal and extremely exprsive and is a tastemaker mographic. I kd of feel the same way now, bee, yeah, of urse I have a really strong gay fan base, and the fact is that is a really enjoyable factor for me to have a really strong mographic bee mak the shows a lot more fun, for one, and bee they are really exprsive. I’m sure the gays would back me up on that!
Actually, I have to say, for whatever reason, except the on that were for gay publitns, seemed like everythg was very surface layer bee of the mic that I was makg.
THE WEIRST, GAYT, AND MOST UNNVENTNALLY POP OF MARINA, ACRDG TO MARA DIAMANDIS
Are you aware of how many lbians wish you were gay, though?
Is Mara Diamandis gay? ”“Brightney Pri”, as has affectnately been nicknamed, was one of the biggt events of the gay lendar – so big that 4, 000 revellers were left strand once the cy’s heavg public transport system failed unr the prsure. Gay male culture has always alced around female pop stars, om Judy Garland to Lady Gaga and Ariana Gran.
But gay men and the women they worship are ually happy to bask the mutual affectn. This year, Spears was honoured wh an award by the US’s Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (Glaad) for promotg equaly.
MARA DIAMANDIS CALLED OUT CELEBRI THAT PANR TO GAY AUDIENC AND WE LOVE HER FOR IT
She rpond by sayg the gay muny had shown her “unndnal love”.
Propped up by her gay fan base? Scratch lightly at the surface and what flak off is, y, reciprocy and genue affectn, but also llo theory of the gay fan-diva lk is that of shared opprsn – gay men and women are both ground unr the wheel of hetero-patriarchy.
But there was nothg knowg the way another gay fan photoshopped an umbrella to his meet and greet photo wh the unwtg star and later circulated onle. The actns have a distct edge of mockery, the air of a joke that their subject is not Michael Bronski, a Harvard Universy profsor and the thor of books on queer history and gay culture says “There is a long history of gay male fan culture latchg onto famo women and then turng on them.