5 homoerotic music videos that were too hot for the censors to handle
Lil Nas X has recently started dropping snippets of new songs online, and that means another unabashedly gay music era may soon be upon us.We can’t imagine how he could possibly top last year’s shockingly homoerotic Montero video, but it seems certain that he’ll do his best to send pearl-clutching conservatives into a tailspin once again.In anticipation of what’s to come, let’s take a look back at five music videos that were just too hot for the media to handle.
Cheers to the artists who live provocatively and embrace sexuality, and may the art ahead of us be even wilder and sluttier than these…The original video for this ‘80s new wave anthem follows the gradual descent of a suit-and-tie type down the rabbit hole of an underground leather bar.
It features the lead wrestling a tiger onstage for a crowd of mustached hunks, a Caeser-esque bear who presides over the club stripping down to a leather thong, and ends with the main character fully a part of the crowd and grinding into another man from behind.
The video was quickly banned by the BBC for… well, all of that. The original song was also banned from BBC radio for suggestive lyrics (the constantly repeated “when you want to come” especially), which actually ended up being outdone by the suggestiveness of the song’s ad campaign.
