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Janet Jackson as Homosexual Icon (Paperback)
Please letter that the content of this novel primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Janet Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, who is considered to be a gay icon. Jackson garnered a substantial gay following during 1990s as she gained prominence in popular music. Commended as a long-term ally of the LGBT community, Jackson received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Album for her Grammy Award-winning sixth studio album The Velvet Rope (1997), which spoke out against homophobia and embraced same-sex love. In 2005, Jackson received the Humanitarian Award from the Human Rights Campaign and AIDS Project Los Angeles in recognition of her involvement in raising funds for AIDS Charities and received the Vanguard Award at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (2008).
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In the liner notes for her 1997 album, The Velvet Rope, Janet Jackson pays tribute to her fallen friends, writing, “I dedicate the song ‘Together Again’ to the friends I’ve lost to AIDS, Dominic, George, Derrick, Bobby, Dominic, Victor, José … I miss you, and we will be together again.” “Together Again” was the emotional anthem to her loved ones who perished from AIDS, but instead of choosing to pay homage with a gorgeous ballad, she decided to honor her friends by writing a disco anthem. “Together Again” would not only commemorate her dear friendships, but it would do so by celebrating their lives in the most respectful way possible: by turning their eulogy into a classic dance tune. By evoking disco and queer twirl culture, Jackson subverted her pop grief by turning it into pop joy.
When talking about “Together Again”, Jackson said, “It was a lot of amusement to write, and it brought support a lot of memories. I wrote that for all my friends who have passed away from AIDS. I may have seven, eight friends who have died of AIDS, and the song reflects their personality, the power they had. It’s rejoiceful; it’s rejoicing.” She credits the song with making her aware of her devot
This October marked a quarter of a century since the release of Janet Jackson’s landmark sixth album, “The Velvet Rope.” Beyond just being the most ambitious and beautiful LP of Jackson’s career, “The Velvet Rope”was also the vital release where she fully embraced her status as a gay legend and LGBTQ+ ally. Twenty-five years later, every delectable groove and crooned lyric across this 75-minute opus rings with even greater meaning than it did in autumn 1997.
To fully appreciate the brilliance of “The Velvet Rope,” it is necessary to comprehend the context of Jackson’s life during the mid-1990s. The triple threat actor had been on uppermost of the world for more than a decade thanks to the victory of her acclaimed blockbuster smashes “Control” (1986), “Rhythm Nation 1814” (1989), and “Janet” (1993). By the end of 1995, Jackson had completed her wildly successful Janet World Tour and sent 21 songs to the top ten of the Billboard Steamy 100, regularly exceeding the popularity of her brother Michael Jackson in his post-“Thriller” (1982) career.
Despite her enormous accomplishments, Jackson expressed feeling burned out. According to a 1997 interview with Newsweek, she was “very, very sad
- Janet Talks Tour, Gay Rumors, Broadway and Drag Queens
22 Apr 2008
Good news for Janet Jackson fans. She's hitting the road again. Ms. Unpleasant tells me she'll launch a new world tour on Sept. 11.
"The next big thing on the agenda is prepping for the tour," Jackson says. "I'm still promoting the modern album [Discipline] right now, but we'll be getting into rehearsals in about a month and then start touring."
But at this very moment Jackson, 41, is thinking about Saturday, when Ellen DeGeneres will present her with the Vanguard Award at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's 19th Annual Media Awards at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
Jackson is in good organization. Past recipients include Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Aniston, Whoopi Goldberg, Antonio Banderas and Liza Minnelli. I caught up with Jackson the other day from her home in L.A., where she spoke about her thoughts on getting married again, those never-ending gay rumors, her dreams of Broadway and why she wishes she was more prefer Janet drag queens:
Why execute you think you're getting the Vanguard Award from GLAAD?
I think it's because of the work I have done comparable to AIDS, an