Queer Spice: 10 times the Spice Girls showed Pride for their LGBT fans, from Victoria Beckham’s new rainbow T-shirts to Mel B and Geri Horner’s lesbian affair revelations
- Ginger, Posh, Baby, Sporty and Scary are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their hit single Wannabe – and set Instagram alight with rainbow T-shirts
- Their Spice World 2019 reunion tour was as camp as it gets, Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Mel B appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Mel C even did a Pride tour
Here are 10 times the Spice Girls made their LGBTQ+ fans love them even more.
Victoria Beckham’s Pride campaign
To celebrate Pride 2021, the Spice Girls have all reunited with Posh on her latest campaign. All five Spice Girls set Instagram alight and sent their gay fans into a frenzy when they revealed new photos in matching Victoria Beckham “proud and wannabe your lover” T-shirts – an ode to their hit debut single, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in July.
All proceeds go to the Albert Kennedy Trust, which supports LGBTQ+ youth who are homeless or living in hostile environments.
2 Become 1’s lyric change
Did you know the Spice Girls once changed the lyrics to one of their songs to include their gay fans? On the original album version of No 1 single 2 Become 1, the lyric goes, “any deal that we endeavour, boys and girls feel good together”, but the single version was later changed to, “once again if we endeavour, love will bring us back together”. Emma Bunton later explained that the lyric change was necessary after the members realised they had become LGBTQ+ icons.