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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 queenly queen who gave me a hold and a brush . 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 male lover 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 collective, he doesn't look after.
"Everyone always says, 'When you view at a lad 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 Event 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
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 gay following:
We did a show years ago in Ybor City in Tampa and Divine Brown — the young woman who messed around with Hugh Grant back in the diurnal (laughs) — was hosting a drag show. We actually had no idea. 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 performative queens before Nick (Carter) and me. We were in our trailer and we were watching these guys changing. We idea 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 brush . I was beside myself, and that was when we first knew that we had a big gay following. I wa
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When the Backstreet Boys dropped their latest album's title track, "In a World Like This," they did something extraordinary with the video: They ended it with a victorious moment in LGBT history, as an older lesbian couple finally renowned 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 book and the time the band performed with men they mind were women.
The video for the album's first single, "In a Society Like This," celebrates marriage equality. Why was it important to take that stance with that melody video?
It stemmed from me personally. I possess a lot of queer friends and two of my best friends possess been together for almost 10 years. And living in California, it's been so friggin' frustrating to me that they could not get it right; they couldn't pass the bill. Then, literally, right after we dropped the video, they actually passed the bill (allowing LGBT people to get 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 lgbtq+ marriage, the band's gay fan anchor, dressing in drag (remember that 2012 photo shoot?) and why he's dubbed himself the self-proclaimed "f-g hag" of the group!
"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 gay men and gay women," McLean said. "I was hardly around anyone straight."
McLean added that it's amazing he turned out linear. "Everyone always says, 'When you stare at a teen band, one of them has to be gay,'" he said, adding, "No, they don't. Instead of me organism gay, I'm the f-g hag."
When asked what it feels like for queer fans to desire one or more of the Backstreet Boys members to be gay, McLean gushed, "I believe it's awesome. It's great. I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've