Olly Alexander Covers ‘Gay Times Magazine,’ Talks Out Pop Stars

Mike Wass | March 15, 2016 8:35 pm
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Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander graces the cover of the latest issue of Gay Times Magazine. He looks suitably dreamy with close-cropped brown hair and a piercing gaze. The “Desire” hitmaker addresses being an out pop star (for what seems like the 100th time) in the accompanying interview and spills a little tea about his contemporaries. “I feel like there’s a level of ‘gay-ness’ that people will accept,” he explains.

“If you look at pop stars through the ages, we’ve had camp, glam popstars from the 80s — your George Michaels and what have you — but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic,” the Penny Dreadful actor continues. “And even though we have out gay artists now, I don’t think they can express themselves and their sexuality in a way a straight person can.” (A not-so-subtle reference to Sam Smith?) Check out his striking cover below.

Olly Alexander’s Gay Times cover below:

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