HEADER BY OLIVIA LAWRENCE

Queen Bey has officially entered her gay era. Her seventh solo studio album Renaissance, led by the Big Freedia-assisted banger Break My Soul, has been lauded as one of the icon’s best albums to date due to its carefree, club-ready nature and for paying homage to the Black and queer pioneers of disco, funk and house music (it recently surpassed Lemonade as her top-rated album on Metacritic). With samples of fierce underground drag icons and production from the music industry’s most revered LGBTQ+ creatives, the album is queer euphoria from start to finish. Read ahead for our break down of all the queer moments on Beyoncé’s acclaimed new album Renaissance. 

COZY

Trailblazing trans DJ and musician Honey Dijon serves as the lead producer on two Renaissance tracks: Cozy and Alien Superstar, with the former also sampling Bitch I’m Black by trans television personality TS Madison. As one of the most in-demand DJ’s in the world, Dijon – a former GAY TIMES cover star – has continuously used her platform to raise awareness of the instrumental role queer and Black folks played in dance music.