"It happened without me knowing it," Minogue tells Billboard, explaining she became aware of her intense LGBTQ following in the late '80s while visiting Sydney's so-called "Gay Golden Mile."
"I was in Sydney and there's a famous bar on Oxford Street called the Albury, and at the time it was the gay bar in the gay area in Sydney. I was in the car, my manager was in the car with me along with a couple other people, and someone said 'there's Kylie Night at the Albury tonight.' And I was like 'What?!' I'd never heard of a Kylie Night, but I said 'We should go! We should go!' At the time, I'd done an ad for Coca-Cola, and someone said, 'Ohhh I think someone has gone as a Coke can,'" she recalls, laughing. "There weren't that many versions of me then, I'm talking 1989 or '90. Now there's tons of them -- choose a look. But I'm the least Kylie person when I'm at any of those nights. I looked like they should not have let me in."
Since then, Kylie's given us more than enough looks to populate an entire bar without repeats, and her gay fan base has only grown.
"That's the first moment I can remember where it was a thing, and it's been a thing ever since -- which is incredible," she says.