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When the Backstreet Boys dropped their latest album's title track, "In a World Favor This," they did something special with the video: They ended it with a victorious moment in LGBT history, as an older lesbian couple finally celebrated their right to marry.
We caught up with self-proclaimed "fag hag" AJ McLean, a founding member of one of the biggest-selling boy bands in history, to chat about how his queer friends (and "Same Love" rapper Macklemore) inspired that video, doing Marilyn Monroe in the nude for an upcoming publication and the second the band performed with men they thought were women.

The video for the album's first single, "In a World Like This," celebrates marriage equality. Why was it important to grab that stance with that music video?
It stemmed from me personally. I have a lot of gay friends and two of my best friends have been together for almost 10 years. And living in California, it's been so friggin' frustrating to me that they could not get it right; they couldn't pass the bill. Then, literally, right after we dropped the video, they actu

TheBackstreetBoys were at a drag show when they first realized they had a gay following.

"We did three or four songs, the crowd went nuts and I was standing next to this 6-foot-6 drag queen who gave me a hold and a smooch. I was beside myself, and that was when we first knew that we had a big gay following," A.J. McLean told Pride Source in a recent interview. "I was just like, 'Wow, this is kind of friggin' crazy.' Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3 and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight."

In the interview, McLean talks about shaving his legs and dressing up in drag. As for any sort of gay rumors surrounding him or the pop group, he doesn't tend.

"Everyone always says, 'When you view at a lad band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't. Instead of me being gay, I'm the fag hag," he said.

"I think it's awesome. It's great," McLean told Pride Source. "I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame. There's o

Technically, Backstreet Boy AJ McLean is a fag stag, but we’ll let him pick his label! In a recent interview with PrideSource, AJ opens up about the gays’ love for the Backstreet Boys and the Backstreet Boys’ love for the gays:

On discovering the Backstreet Boys had a big gay following:

We did a show years ago in Ybor Metropolis in Tampa and Divine Brown — the girl who messed around with Hugh Grant back in the noun (laughs) — was hosting a drag show. We actually had no plan. We were all really young. Kevin (Richardson) was obviously older, so he had been around all his gays at Disney (when he worked there before Backstreet Boys) and he had been around drag queens before Nick (Carter) and me. We were in our trailer and we were watching these guys changing. We thought these were chicks — and all of a sudden they were taking off their clothes and I’m like, “Wait, that girl’s got, like, pecs. And oh, that’s a penis.” I was like, “What the hell is going on?&#;

We did three or four songs, the crowd went nuts and I was standing next to this 6-foot-6 drag queen who gave me a hug and a

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we are one fire,
we have desires,
but one is that way,
one backstreet boy is gay,
but we don't want to be mean
since now he's a queen
don't inquire please
which back street boy is gay,
tell me who?
ain't saying that its AJ,
tell me who?
ain't saying that it Howie
tell me who,
i never wanna hear you say,
which Backstreet teen is gay

now i can see him,
he's in womens clothes,
but he don't verb an IUD, yeah
he likes Village People,
he's playing croquet,
his mutt is a pekinese

he is on fire,
his back, perspires
won't tell, won't say won't say,
WHO'S GAY?!

he's always saying,
ain't nothing but a butt ache
ain't nothing but a fruit cake
i never wanna hear you say (i don't wanna hear you say)
which one of us is gay,
tell me who?
ain't saying that it's Brian,
WHY tell me who?
ain't saying Nick or Kevin,
tell me who,
he's baking up a souffle,
which backstreet lad is gay

OK we're ALL gay

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