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Contents:
- WHAT WAS LIKE TO E OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ROCK STAR?
- THE ROCK PLAYED A GAY CHARACTER DPE BEG TOLD IT WOULD ‘RU’ HIS CAREER FOR GOOD
- ROCKSTAR GAY EDITION
WHAT WAS LIKE TO E OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ROCK STAR?
* rock star gay version *
This article will emphasise rock and roll songs wh a gay, bisexual, lbian, transgenr, androgyno, or crossdrsg theme. Some of the songs were nsired que progrsive durg the time they were released, when homosexualy was nsired a mental illns and crossdrsg was illegal.
The song’s lyrics, which referenced homosexualy, were changed, to f to the nformist 50s mastream culture. The reference to gay romance is found the lyric: “Number 47 said to Number 3, ‘You’re the cutt jailbird I ever did see. There’s no implitn that straight people n turn gay or anythg (even then, ’s ol to experiment and sexualy is fluid).
THE ROCK PLAYED A GAY CHARACTER DPE BEG TOLD IT WOULD ‘RU’ HIS CAREER FOR GOOD
Mad About The Boy – Dah Washgton – Origally wrten by Noël Coward 1932 for mil revue Words and Mic, the song has a hidn gay meang. The msage behd this versn is that cema un all, and you n maybe even extend that to beg acceptg of other people, that gay or straight, we’re really not that different after all. Siarly, a lot of the “gay ins” back the day were straight women and not gay men.
Noël Coward even wrote vers supposed to be sung by a bsman who is eher gay or bisexual about beg “mad about the boy” – ‘When I told my wife, she said “I’ve never heard such nonsense my life! Noël Coward was really secretive about his sexualy bee those days, society was really homophobic and he feared losg everythg if he me out.
So he didn’t like the song beg a gay anthem, but once you release a song, ’s out there and people n terpret as they wish. “Let me tell you about a place somewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay” – sure gay at that time meant happy, but let have this one!
ROCKSTAR GAY EDITION
One more though mak pecially sound like a gay song “Here’s a fella blue jeans dancg wh an olr queen who’s dolled up her diamond rgs and twistg the night away”. Sally Go Round the Ros – The Jayts – One terpretatn of this song is that Sally is gay and she is upset that her csh is gog wh another girl.
The song has nothg that straight up says ’s about beg gay, so there isn’t anythg offensive.
– The Honeybs – This song was wrten by the gay songwrg team of Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. While didn’t happen on their stud versn of the Bo Diddley song, happened durg a live performance for the BBC on Christmas Eve 1964, years before homosexualy was legalised the UK. I don’t know… this isn’t really a gay song per se, but jt swapped lyrics.