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...Wirrick envisaged it as a mid-tempo R&B ballad until Sylvester sped it up and added a disco groove with the help of synth wizard Patrick Cowley....
...And over there, of course, that’s R Kelly.” Taranto lines his story up neatly in the manner of one of Helen’s equations....
...I do dare — because I’m using religious words, and as a gay man, I’m not allowed. The first thing they do is take God away.”...
...The lead single from Kylie’s new album Tension, it has brought the Australian her first UK top 10 hit since 2010 and been crowned this year’s summer song, an insta-classic gay anthem....
...President Joe Biden said Uganda, which this year passed punitive anti-gay laws including the death penalty for people engaging in certain same-sex acts, had committed “gross violations of internationally...
...to him to be a black, gay man....
...The Western-themed “Old Town Road” was accessorised by a life-size puppet horse and the ingenious interpolation of Ginuwine’s hit song “Pony”, a classic of 1990s R&B....
...There are obvious echoes of Lisbeth Salander, but the crackling interplay between Scott and Inspector Gutiérrez, a gay Basque policeman, adds an extra layer of originality, as does Nick Caistor’s sparkling...
...And one of them is an oppressive, mainstream gay culture. I asked Michael why that was so important. Michael R. JacksonYeah....
...“Vintage T-shirts tap into nostalgia,” says 34-year-old Deeps Samra, who collects rare hip-hop and R&B T-shirts....
...One of the album’s dedicatees is a gay relative, now deceased, whom Beyoncé called Uncle Jonny....
...The Green Mill plays jazz until two in the morning, and we also have two great dance parties: Slo ’Mo at Sleeping Village plays R&B and smooth jams, while Queen is on every Sunday at Smartbar....
...The British Home Office has denied entry to some Jamaican dancehall singers because of their homophobic lyrics, most infamously Beenie Man (“I’m dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays”)....
.../ From Ted Gaffney, Waterford, CT, US A tie manufacturer gives the FT a dressing-down / From Christopher R Mundy, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired Nadav Tomer as an operating adviser to CD&R funds, focused on healthcare investing. He was global president of Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes Spine franchise....
...Drake’s sexism becomes ludicrous in “Girls Want Girls”, when the rapper tries to woo a gay woman with the absurd claim that he too is a lesbian....
...He was stupid back then and, when he’d get a new burner phone, he’d send out a tranche of texts reading: “Hello this is 10 Foot, if u r painting graf then pls save this number.”...
...Like many gay kids, I grew up believing that to be myself would require a journey to somewhere else....
...Nobody will resist,” Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of the R.Politik analysis firm, says. Western countries found negotiating with an overconfident, isolated Putin impossible....
...Patients “deteriorated so rapidly . . . it was a lonely death, a lot of these were young gay men”. In some cases, they had been ostracised by their families....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Marc FilippinoBrazil’s first openly gay state governor could become the country’s next president....
...They’re used by film companies or PR companies or HR companies or all the R companies,” he laments....
...One of his big breaks came when an American R&B group called The Jones Girls came to London to record an album. They were big in the ‘70s, and this was meant to be their comeback album....
...Dan Keeling had been the A&R man who’d discovered Coldplay, rose fast to become managing director at Island Records, then abruptly shifted careers to spend more time with wine....
...Take-off a struggle for Amazon dronesAmazon is laying off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff working on its much-anticipated delivery drone project, with the company turning to outside help to get its...
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