Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This, as ever, is your host, DJ Louis the 14th.

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the debut of my queer pop party, gorgeous, gorgeous, is happening tomorrow night in Brooklyn

at Sultan Room. I want to see you there. There's but a few tickets left. Click the link in the show notes

of this episode and I hope to see some of my tri-state area niche legends at tomorrow night.

It's gorgeous, gorgeous debut. I am so fucking excited. I literally cannot contain myself over

this party finally returning to my hometown. I am thrilled beyond comprehension. So this is the third

episode in our Pride series. And we already talked about Kim Petrus. We did Pride Anthems last week

with Pianca. And when we were originally conceiving the series, there was one artist that I felt

really inclined to put a spotlight on, who is probably the most important originator of

queerness in the pop space as we know it today. He's the inventor of rock and roll music. He's the

inventor of so many pop star tropes that have become hugely influential on so many stars that have

come after him. And he's just an absolutely fascinating, sometimes tragic, sometimes incredibly

inspirational figure to me as a queer person.

And this deep dive was moving beyond all belief and so inspiring and really, really interesting.

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