3 of the gayest PET SHOP BOYS' videos

The Pet Shop Boys have been vocal advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, especially after lead singer, Neil Tennant, publicly came out as gay in the 1990s.

However, only a few of their videos speak directly to the queer community.

DOMINO DANCING

Released in 1988, the video for "Domino Dancing" is not particularly gay. The two young, sexy male leads are actually fighting over the same girl. Or are they?

Rolling Stone said the video was "probably the most homoerotic pop video ever made", thanks to the slow-motion shots of the boys wrestling on the beach.

"As such, the video exemplified the mainstream exploitation of gay sex in the Eighties, most evident in Calvin Klein ads and feature films like Top Gun. Unfortunately, Domino Dancing was every bit as dishonest, titillating the straight world with images it could never acknowledge, then doubling the repression by keeping openly gay expression closeted."

Regardless, for gay men around the world, the video was a wonderful distraction!

BEING BORING

A few year's later, the band dropped "Being Boring," the second single from their fourth studio album, Behaviour.

The song is both hopeful and melancholic, which is exactly what Tennant was feeling when he wrote it. "For me it is a personal song because it's about a friend of mine who died of AIDS, and so it's about our lives when we were teenagers and how we moved to London, and I suppose me becoming successful and him becoming ill."

The video is a work of art, shot by famed fashion photographer Bruce Weber. And though the nudity is brief, the video was banned from MTV and relegated to airing on the Playboy Channel.