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40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
* gay blues artists *
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Billy Strayhorn, pianist and wrer wh the De Ellgton orchtra, was openly gay. Hugh' private life was also much ls public than Raey's—but most scholars believe he was gay, and he did wre sympathetilly about gay characters a number of his works. Gay performers, and sometim gay subtext, ntued to be a part of blu and jazz and their rivativ.
SISSY MAN BLU: STRAIGHT & GAY BLU
Disver Sissy Man Blu: Straight & Gay Blu by Var Artists released 1989. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic. * gay blues artists *
That history has often been obscured though, so that, for example, the mixture of gay and Ain-Amerin fluenc dis was seen at the time as somehow alien to, or outsi of, the blu/rock leage, rather than as a natural part of . But fact, the history of pop mic general, and of black pop mic particular, has always been gay history.
On a few of the album’s tracks, Act -wrote wh gay micians Sam Sparro and Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters. His sophomore release om that year, Hi Nothg, was a lovely surprise. And whether he’s kept a low profile sce then bee he’s livg his life or bee ’s hard for an pennt mician to get tractn this world, he’s still the pg ballaer wh which a young gay man might fall love.