Decoding the queer legacy of Pet Shop Boys
Journalist and Pet Shop Boys mega fan, Nick Levine, takes a look back at the queer legacy of one of the biggest bands in the world ahead of their brand-new, 10-track studio album, ‘Nonetheless'.
If there's such a thing as the perfect pop lyric, the Pet Shop Boys surely nailed it with the crisp payoff from their 1987 single Rent: "I love you, you pay my rent." The song's title and subject matter has always felt queer-coded because it lets the mind wander to "rent boy", a now slightly outmoded term for a male sex worker. But interestingly, Pet Sh…
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