This week on Gay2k, Sarah and John-Paul take a deeply personal look at the "Gaga-sized" shift in their musical DNA, tracing how the Mother Monster changed the radio landscape just as they were entering young adulthood. As members of the Class of 2005, the hosts reflect on being Gaga’s literal peers—graduating into the same "Recession Pop" landscape and finding a life raft in queer dance hall energy she brought to the Top 40. They discuss how her conceptual approach to fame, persona and art-house synth-pop acted as a gateway to their approach to art, activism and adulthood.
Up Next in Season 1
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RuPaul: The RuVolution
In "RuPaul: The RuVolution," the team dives deep into the glittery trenches of NYC’s downtown club scene to trace Mother’s iconic glow-up from gritty street queen to global CEO. They kick things off by obsessing over that legendary "Love Shack" cameo—reminiscing about the pure, unadulterated joy ...
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Roses for Rosie
For those of us coming of age in the 90s and early 00s, Rosie was the ultimate "one of us" before we even had the words for it. Long before she officially joined the fam, she was giving us major queer-coded energy as the tough-talking, fiercely loyal Doris Murphy in "A League of Their Own" and se...
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Ellen Element
This week Gay2k dives into Ellen DeGeneres. Sarah and John-Paul explore their feelings on the Icon. Ellen changed the world by coming out, but she lost her audience when her brand of "kindness" felt more like a mask than a mission. She started as a revolutionary but did she end as a cautionary ta...
