Who is the gay one in one direction
How A Generation Of Queers Found Their Way Through One Direction
In the arouse of Liam Payne’s tragic death, one fan reflects on the former One Direction luminary and how the boy band created space for same-sex attracted fans to watch themselves…
By Jesse Boland
October 16, 2024, became an unexpected daytime of mourning for me and many of my friends. Not only did it mark the passing of British singer Liam Payne, who tragically died after falling from the third-floor balcony of his hotel suite in Buenos Aires, but for many of us it sealed a morbid closing to one of the brightest chapters of our adolescence.
Attempting to describe the grief of this decline to someone who did not involve to the 1D fandom feels onerous, as there are so few words to truly articulate this real-time bildungsroman of what we, the self-described Directioners, experienced during the turbulent chapter of our youth. It is my desire that whoever is reading this article from outside of the fandom approaches this piece with both empathy and curiosity for a loss they thankfully cannot or own not yet experienced, but with the intent to superior understand why for so many new women, and also queer men, the loss of Liam Payne s
Louis Tomlinson responds to report queer sex rumors broke up One Direction
In a city known for its happy hour culture, summer can be an even beat time to take advantage of post-work drink and eat deals. Interns are in town, summer Fridays are in full swing, and patios and rooftops are aplenty. Here are a scant prime, non-comprehensive spots for an afternoon deal with besties, colleagues, and new connections.
Alfreda. Dupont’s Alfreda, a tribute to the chef’s grandmother, offers relaxed pizza and traditional Italian eats. The joyful hour runs Monday-Friday 4-6 p.m., featuring $8 spritzes and BOGO pizzas. Few do spritzes favor the Italians, and Alfreda leans in on five kinds plus one N/A spritz; our go-to is the rose and mezcal with grapefruit or the locally made Don Ciccio limoncello spritz with basil.
Lyle’s. Especially leaning into the spritz side of summer is at Lyle’s, fully embracing the fizzy ephemera of the season with the Summer of Spritz. The Dupont Circle hotel restaurant imagines cocktails from France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Spritzes feature limoncello and vinho verde. For those that hit Lyle’s every week during the spritz special—and get a literal stam
Lance Bass on One Direction: ‘My Guess Is One of Them Is Gay’
Lance Bass is generally an uncontroversial person (aside from that whole space field trip he wanted to take), but he's create himself embroiled in a bit of controversy after he offered his perspective of One Direction's sexuality.
The former 'N Sync member was on 'The Rubin Report,' to discuss the big news of NBA player, Jason Collins coming out this week. The conversation quickly turned about Lance Bass coming out himself in 2006 and the probability of one of the members of One Guide being gay himself. Bass said,
"Well, statistically speaking, one probably is. It’s nuts with a market love that because 100 percent is young women. And they fantasize about these guys, and then you contain the record label and everyone grooming you to make sure that you don’t even mention you have a girlfriend. So screw the fact that you’re gonna come out as being gay. It ruins their whole business plan."
The man has a very valid point, whether Directioners like it or not, that even if one of the 1D guys is gay, he may feel compelled to conceal it eve
What if, in 2012, one of the One Direction boys decided to inform the world he was gay? Would his umpteen million devoted female fans take the news OK? That is the question I asked Lance Bass during an interview on my SiriusXM show, The Six Pack.
"I actually think they would," Bass said, without hesitating. "The younger generation is way smarter than we were. They're way more perceptive, and they just don't care. ... Advocate then there was no way in hell I would come out."
These are bold words coming from Bass, practically the founding father of the yes-I'm-gay pop-star narrative. Bass is a veteran of the boy-band machine, which has experienced a major resurgence since the rise of the UK's One Advice and The Wanted. In 2006, four years after *NSYNC announced its plans to go on hiatus, he finally came out publicly, appearing on the cover of People Magazine with the headline "I'M GAY."
Have minds and perceptions really changed as quickly as Bass believes? If 1D's Harry or Zayn or Louis or Niall or Liam (did I forget any?) were actually to reach out, would they be welcomed with open arms, both by their fans and the industry they've revitalized?
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