The Gayest Album Covers from Straight Artists

Prince - Lovesexy

Hall and Oates, of course.

Pablo Cruise. This one got me horny as a kid.

It looks like the guy in the front on the Orleans album cover is looking down approvingly at the dick of the guy on his left.

Ambrosia - One Eighty

The hair. Dear god, that poodle hair.

The seductive wrap around of blue shirt guy and his flash of denim-clad thigh.

The deer-in-headlights mug shot look of the guy on the left...who knows he's now part of one the gayest album covers ever.

I win.

Rolling Stones, Some Girls

Hall & Oates' front cover for their 1982 album, H2O - what is this sweaty, hairy piece of flesh? A man's ass???

The back cover to Hall & Oates' 1982 album, H20 - they're about to start tongue-kissing, right?

Menudo

The Temptations have had some back covers that were gay, gay, gay. Here is the back of their "Bare Back" album ("Bare Back"???).

Oh, the tight Jordaches (or Jordache knock-offs)! Oh, Dennis - you're being a little extra, aren't you?

R1 Straight Artists -😂

Herbie Mann

Tenacious D

Former Denver Bronco Johnny Keyes:

Most 80s hair rock albums

R15 Nice cock and balls!

Do 45's count?

Robert Conrad - Ballin' the Jack.

Motley Crue

So far r16 is the funniest. What was he thinking?

And I'm sure Bob Conrad balled plenty of guys named Jack....

R6 I loved that album cover! That was an actual zipper you could move up and down! And that was hottie Joe Dallesandro's bulging cock on the cover.

R19 I'd have balled and jacked Robert Conrad when he looked like that.

Michael Sembello. Although is he straight?

"Oh, my!"

Ladies are gay, too:

R1 Most of Prince's album covers were pretty gay.

Chicago

This one has some bondage, too:

Live It Up ... the butt

Return to Pooh Corner?

Or Return to POO Corner?

seriously

But not as interesting here, r26.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Put your hands on your hips and show us those bulges, girls!

The Commodores = more black men showing off their derrieres in tight designer jeans. Some of the men (Lionel Richie included) finish off the look with heels.

Yep. Uh- huh ....

Stryken. They look like a bunch of Jersey girls at the mall.

Metal is a goldmine of gay because they thought they were unquestionable.

A more innocent time?

Organist Ken Griffin, "On the Happy Side" ... was he straight or gay?

Fuck the what?

Okay...

The Ritchie Family knew where their bread was buttered ... Give 'Em a Break!

Poor kid

The Playmates.

WHAT??!?!?

YAAAAH, gurl ...

There is some questionable hands-on contact and directed gazes going on with that Commodores album cover, too.

Robots After All, Katherine ... are gay

Prince loved his little black Speedos!

Seriously, kween?

R48 There sure are. They're loving each other...and each others' asses!

R47 - I thought the posting rules were no gay artists. Or does that count because George Michael was "straight" at the time?

My favorite so far:

I always thought Poison was the frilliest hair metal band:

Let's give this one a pass since 50% of the group was straight.

Tino time!

Tino chomps the pino

R55 It looks like the spokesmodel competition on Star Search.

Do Superfreaks count?

R60 She's super freaky. Yow.

I knew that Earth Wind & Fire wouldn't disappoint.

I think we have a winner. Or weiner:

Now I need to hear Nigel's "Fresh White Reeboks Kickin Your Ass"

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R55 - is that Bret Michaels on the bottom right? He's prettier than Pam Anderson.

Paul Lekakis is straight, Straight, STRAIGHT!!!!!

Is there a slight "Village People" theme going on with Marlon and Tito? You know how the gays have sometimes embraced pseudo-masculine imagery such as the military and athletics. And Randy just looks like he can't wait to hit Chelsea.

You are correct, r66.

Bret was practically a Barbie doll when she started out:

R16, it's "Jon Keyworth," and you should be banned from posting ever again...because you also failed to include the inner sleeve of that delightful album:

Muscle Beach Party.....

Blowing great guns you say. Well, okay.

Hey Hey Hey Goodbye

Cleaned out and ready to fuck.

Power plant presenting.

Why did the various Straight Men have naked men on their covers? Naked men showering, naked men presenting hole... these were STRAIGHT Artists???

I've never heard of any of those guys with the naked covers. Who were they?

Socks on cocks

The Chili Peppers love being naked and they love their cocks.

That's not the whole group, R65, just one of them who now is a male stripper. And that's a bootleg release, R72.

My contribution

How about this?

Obscure music tidbit:

r74's UFO cover is a photo of Genesis P. Orridge and his (then) girlfriend/bandmate, Cosey Fanni Tutti.

I KNOW...RIGHT!!!?!

(more Genesis below)

Whitesnake seems to be a homage to the infamous Mom's Apple Pie LP cover

Mom's Apple Pie. This should appeal to the guys here who are always starting threads about vaginas.

This cover was banned, the new cover featured a bricked up vagine.

What were they selling?

U2's Larry Mullen and his son.

Bowie, with a dog's dick. This cover was banned too.

Peter Brown. LOL Ostensibly straight.

R86 How is that even remotely gay? A man hugging his son?

Never mind.

This...

Surprised nobody got this one yet.

R92 I thought of that one, but after reading about how the photo was created, it lost it's gay sensibility to me.

r83's Whitesnake cover is very yonic and straight -- NOT gay.

You do realize that snake's mouth is just a huge vagina, right?

r84 = another yonic illustration for straight guys.

Feargal Sharkey, showing ankle.

" How is that even remotely gay? A man hugging his son?"

Don't be silly, the casual U2 fan had no idea that was Larry Mullen's son! Nice try troll.

I actually remember a TV talk show host asking U2 if they got any flak for that cover.

Back to the thread title, well, sort of.

Depeche Mode.

The guy lounging looks like Jimmy Fallon!

Bowling For Soup.

A Flock of Seagulls back cover

Manowar again

Prince, Lovesexy

AC DC

Larsen Feiten Band

Dream Theater

WTF?

Let's don't forget the classics

This is usually in the worst LP cover lists, but it's so damn funny!

"Jesus Use Me'!

Rush

Lou Reed

Yes

Rainbow

I always thought the message here was pretty clear.

don't know about the dog, but could not find anything on old Paddy not being straight.

My eyes!

Bros.

John T.

Kevin Eubanks, Jay Leno's old band leader.

Way too much going on here.

Wrestling, black country music with homoerotic overtones?!

Rex Smith, "Forever" back cover image

I love that album cover R113. Never fails to make me laugh.

R107 I was in lust with Mac Davis back in the day.

r57 That's really gay

The Heat of Meat?? r123

Those were more innocent times. Nowadays, you could not get away with such album covers.

r118, Marky Mark looks like he's "for sale" in that picture

Marky Mark was the poster child for rough trade in the 1980's.

Double Exposure's Locker Room

That's before Mark Wahlberg became a born again Catholic and a respectable family man.

And this.

r73, five outta six ain't bad....

You can't mention Poison without posting their first album cover! (As a 9 year old that year, I was sure at least 2 of them were biological women.)

As long as we're doing hair metal bands... Kingpin! The blonde went on to join the Marilyn Manson band.

That's Rick holding up the rear.

r122, the thread title says "straight artists"

r113 is not remotely gay.

Lou Reed is bi, so r115 doesn't count.

r120 is flagrantly heterosexual.

Marky Mark was not famous or adult in the '80s, r132

Some pretty weak suggestions lately.

Simply depicting a shirtless male is not gay. Men come that way and most of the people who like shirtless males are straight.

So, you'll have to do better than that, r100, r106, r107, r111, r114, r118, r120 and r125.

Only pictures that HAVE to be gay. Not homoerotic, but GAY.

What about the picture diminishes the likelihood that the man is straight?

R144 is cuckoo

R144 is DLs overly neurotic poster. I imagine him in school constantly interrupting his teachers and classmates to say something "important".

I charged a few up to this one back in the day.

R133 Holy shit! That's kinda hot! Those jock straps are FULL!

Not particularly 'gay', but hilarious. Love the title!

C'mon! Who OK-ed this? It's on what was a popular label, Tamla! They usually released R'n'B.

What's in a name? Long Fat Wang.

Gary, getting down to his business.

You have tom wonder if any of these covers had actual Art Directors helping with the concepts.

Beyond creepy.

Gay pride ready!

My lips are for blowing?! That's a riot.

Not sure if this one got posted

Wayne Cochran and his B-52 hairstyle!

Who can forget this classic, The Dick Handler Quartet.

Arguably the best topic on DL in a while. Great posts except that R144 troll from hell

For you "growers" out there ...

R158 should run for president.

The Dick Handler Quartet has three people.

Or r146 made a stupid suggestion and doesn't like being called out for it.

Did you make a completely stupid suggestion that doesn't fit the bill either, r160?

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The LADY REED Album "Queen Bee Talks"

Great thread! I remember being intrigued by several of these as a kid (seems like Hipgnosis was fond of sneaking in a bare ass on the covers they designed). I'll just add this one from Ned Doheny, an early Asylum Records/David Geffen signing.

The other member of the Dick Handler Quartet was not as photogenic as the other members.

R167 Nice bulges!

Keep It Gay! OK, I'll try.

Featuring the organ stylings of Green and Iles.

Is this Mike OR Terry?

Bruce

Last Crack.

Not an album cover, but an actual children's book title!

Siouxsie and the Banshee's Supersition. The album (and the single "Kiss Them For Me" was my introduction to the band. I thought, based on the cover sleeve (and the promo video for "Kiss Them for Me" with the guys in full leather gear and a poodle) that the band members were all strictly gay and Siouxsie was their fag hag.

Front Cover

Siouxsie and the Banshees' Superstition back cover.

A comedy album, but still.

Love the Joan Crawford scowl

R168 Great title to go with that picture.

Siouxsie married, the guy with the white hair on the back cover. He was the band's drummer, Budgie. They never had kids.

According to Wiki: "Siouxsie married drummer Budgie (real name: Peter Edward Clarke) in May 1991. The following year, they moved to the southwest of France.

In an interview with The Sunday Times in August 2007, she announced that she and Budgie had divorced. In an interview with The Independent, she said, "I've never particularly said I'm hetero or I'm a lesbian. I know there are people who are definitely one way, but not really me. I suppose if I am attracted to men then they usually have more feminine qualities."

r180, exactly. it was quite a shock for me to find out that all the guys were straight and having girlfriends. The band split in 1995 basically because Siouxsie couldn't stand Steven Severin's girlfriend and she felt the whole band dynamic felt off (appjarently her husband struggled with alcoholism but they kept on going on as The Creatures until they got divorced and she released as solo album called Mantaray).

Loved The Creatures, I have their EPs somewhere.

Wasn't Robert Smith a sometime member of the band? I have a live Banshees LP he's on. IIRC, at one point Robert was in both The Cure and the Banshees.

;.;.;

not album cover but inner-sleeve artwork for single

I wouldn't really call Morrissey straight

and this one

R185 I know Everybody knows he's gay

-.,-

Loved The Smiths music, but could never stand Morrissey, go figure! I enjoyed his singing, but his image was a turn off.

Morrissey rides a cock horse.

Every single Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (or, D.A.F.) cover, this one among others:

Dancing in the Street

^ 191 EP cover

Another nudie cover that looks like a bath house sauna scene.

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Roxy Music's Country Life. Always figured the woman on the right was transsexual, especially as famous trans model Amanda Lear had already been on Roxy's second LP cover. The face is very masculine.

r195, in your dreams perhaps.

"Right before Eddie Murphy picked you up!" - Triumph

[quote] in your dreams perhaps.

Huh? Why is it so difficult to believe the model on the right on the Roxy LP cover is trans? That's an extremely masculine face.

Tula, one of the world's most famous trans models and Bond Girls, had a very feminine body before transitioning. Here's Tula, yes she was a man.

Besides, looks at the shoulders on the Country Life LP model to the right, that's definitely a former man. And the obvious wig...

David Bowie The man who sold the world

^ Ewwwww

r40: That photograph was shot near the Central Park Ramble.

I know those benches.

R40 That's the gayest album cover of all time (on which no cock is being sucked by a male person).

r201 and r202 were already posted.

How long ago, sack of feminine cleansing product r207?

I saw this and thought of this thread. Was this guy gay or straight? And does anyone know what type of shoes he is wearing? Sling back open toed espadrilles? That's a new one.