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Contents:
- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
- TOP 100 GAY SONGS - THE DEFIVE LISTTOP 100 GAY SONGS - THE DEFIVE LIST
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
* gay songs from the 60s *
In the 1920s and early ’30s, Prohibn’s end gave way to the “Pansy Craze”: baret drag performanc that brought gay nightlife to the mass and rried their athetics to mastream mil theater.
TOP 100 GAY SONGS - THE DEFIVE LISTTOP 100 GAY SONGS - THE DEFIVE LIST
In the mid-’30s, at the edge of the Great Deprsn, moral backlash—sometim disguised as enomic nservatism but ually explic s bigotry—shut down many of the clubs and formally crimalized gay sex at a sle that had never before been seen.
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
Jazz n’t be imaged whout the ntributns of giants like Billy Strayhorn (of De Ellgton’s band), who was openly gay, and, later, Cecil Taylor, who found that three-letter word was too limg.