The Holy Bond Between Queer Men & Pop Divas (with Dr. Craig Jennex)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the final installment of our pride series, Assistant Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University and author of the journal article "Diva Worship and the Sonic Search for Queer Utopia" Dr. Craig Jennex joins the show to unpack the relationship between queer men and pop divas. Louie and Craig discuss how this relationship developed over the last hundred years, from the time of opera singers to Judy Garland, Diana Ross, Madonna, Britney, Gaga, Beyoncé and all the way through the present day with fiercely beloved niche pop acts like Charli XCX, and why, on a sociological level, queer men find so much of their identities through these singular avatars of unbridled fierceness and femininity. Louie and Craig also cover how diva worship helps forge community for marginalized people, the role of camp in this connection and share some personal stories about their own journeys finding themselves with the aid of these famous women.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
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| 0:40.6 | I just want to quickly say up top, obviously, we had our two pride gorgeous gorgeouses |
| 0:46.8 | over the last couple weekends on June 9th in LA and then our debut party in Brooklyn on June 16th. |
| 0:52.8 | And they were so amazing. and I got to meet so many |
| 0:56.5 | incredible listeners of the show and I just wanted to say thank you so so so much to everybody |
| 1:01.9 | that came out to those parties they were some of the best nights of my life and I was just absolutely |
| 1:07.5 | amazed it just like not just that the parties were sold out and amazing and |
| 1:13.2 | so much fun and whatever, but also just the fact that the energy was so good and everybody in |
| 1:18.6 | the crowd was so amazing and everybody had like such positive, open, incredible energy. That like |
| 1:24.8 | made the party really fun for me and also just speaks to I think like |
| 1:28.5 | how incredible this community is and I was so glad to get to meet everybody that came up to me, |
| 1:34.0 | especially at the New York party where I got to meet a whole bunch of you and I'm just |
| 1:38.4 | incredibly touched by everybody's love of the show that they expressed to me. It was really |
| 1:43.5 | deeply meaningful and the feeling is mutual. It was really deeply meaningful. And |
| 1:46.5 | the feeling is mutual. None of this would be happening or possible without you guys. And thank you. |
| 1:51.7 | Thank you. And I'm so excited for more. We have the next LA party happening on July 14th at Resident in |
| 1:56.9 | Downtown Los Angeles. And I will include the ticket link for that in the show notes of this episode. |
| 2:00.2 | And more New York dates are forthcoming. So, so excited about that. Thank you guys so, so much |
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