Lookg for a list of the bt gay sgers and gay micians of all time? We've round up our top picks along wh their bt songs!
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JAZZ: GAY MEN JAZZ
It has been more than 50 years sce the rts at the Stonewall Inn the Wt Village area of Manhattan begng on June 28, 1969 — the first time that members of the gay muny stood up to the abive treatment they’d received at the hands of thori. Strayhorn’s sexualy was known by those the bs at a time when beg openly gay certaly wasn’t monplace. ” The torch song, wh s strong theme of unrequed love, is a proment one gay culture, and Lh Life checks that box a big way.
It’s performed here by Chris Connor, a sger known for her “ol” sound, who was eventually revealed as beg gay only her obuary. The nnectn between Dorothy’s pe story and the one experienced by so many closeted dividuals clearly pots to how easily Over the Rabow — the theme om that movie — uld bee an anthem for the gay muny. Gay men began intifyg not only wh the song, but also wh the character that sang , often referrg to themselv as “iends of Dorothy.
This song om The Kg and I may not have an overtly gay nnectn, but the lyrics are key to beg embraced by the LGBTQ muny. ” Openly gay, Grammy-nomated volist and poser Theo Bleckmann performs this 2015 rerdg. Over time, The Right to Love was adopted by the LGBTQ muny as a reflectn of gay upl’ sire to share the liberti and eedoms enjoyed by those heterosexual relatnships.
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
It’s bad for bs if you’re wrg love songs and you’re gay. A lbian who “tir” of public tert her sexualy, Barber says, “I’m hopg as we’ve all grown olr, that beg gay ntu beg jt a part of the normal fabric of everythg, and people will foc on the mic more. As a man his mid-50s workg the world of mil theatre, Blumenkratz is open about his sexualy, even tweetg that he’s “proud to be a gay New Yorker.
Consirg Leonard Bernste was gay and so is Stephen Sondheim, ’s not surprisg that the them of socially nmned love and pism are found the mic om this film.
This song posed by Jerry Herman for the mil La Cage x Foll is nothg short of a gay anthem.