So when Lil Nas X released the music video for “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” in March of this year, and everyone was talking about it? It felt unreal. But openly queer love was not readily accessible in media, and these songs about queer love that played in the mid-afternoon on Logo had so little reach into the cultural consciousness that I never listened to them again. But the worst part is that I have no idea what the names of the songs I listened to that afternoon, nor the artists who poured their hearts into them.īack in 2010, queerness was just beginning to enter the mainstream in the United States. I remember sitting there, discovering these music videos and thinking about how upsetting it was that I was seeing a reflection of myself in music, for the first time, hidden away on a single channel up in the 200s. ![]() There were guys kissing each other and holding hands and showing their love for one another. ![]() But this was not your regular MTV or VH1 fare, but actually, blatantly queer music videos. I turned it on and a music program was just beginning. ![]() As I was scrolling through the TV guide, I came across what could have been a revelation in my queerness: programming created for a queer audience. I was home alone after school one day, and I was avoiding homework. As a young gay man, I remember the first time I discovered Logo TV.
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