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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tiff Bakker

Lesbians are reclaiming Madonna as we await her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II

Madonna with blond hair and black see-through lace top
Madonna in her video for Vogue, 1990. Photograph: Rex Features

Recently, when Madonna deleted every post from her Instagram profile, it was as if a gay flare had been fired around the world.

Cue a flurry of texts from gay male friends, with one declaring that this “purging of the Sistine Chapel” meant the release of Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II was imminent, 20 years after her original disco masterpiece, because Madonna had pulled the same stunt on Instagram in 2023 before announcing our gay Christmas: the Celebration tour.

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