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Contents:
- DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
- SONY MIC LNCH GAY RERD LABEL
- GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- LBIANS ON TV OUTNUMBER GAY MEN FOR FIRST TIME EVER, SAYS GLAAD
- WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
'Mic Wh A Twist' Targets Artists Generatg Buzz In Gay Communy * gay record *
Ingurated 2000 wh an event Rome, Italy, WorldPri is an ternatnal anizatn that stag large-sle ftivals and cultural programm to advote for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights and issu. In recent years, we’ve seen micians talk openly about their gay inty and same-sex relatnships. Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn.
His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview. As the earlit show of queer solidary om a proment metal mician, Halford’s admissn proved val rhapg the public perceptn of heavy metal, repostg an earspltg, heteronormative boys’ club as a safe space where headbangers of all typ uld be themselv, sheltered the flailg arms of not jt a benevolent (and openly gay) God, but the scene wr large.
” The fact that he did all while beg pletely open about his sexualy – llg himself “rock’s tt fairy” – is astoundg and, for a brief, shg moment 1974, Jobriath beme the most visible gay man popular mic.
SONY MIC LNCH GAY RERD LABEL
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgenr, Genrqueer, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, Agenr, Asexual, Ally, and other queer-intifyg muny rerds Please note: Although some of the rerds have been digized and ma available onle, there are many rerds that are only available paper or microfilm format at Natnal Archiv and Rerds Admistratn * gay record *
While the “Queen of Dis” is a tle most monly btowed upon Donna Summer, also appli to Sylvter, who was a fixture of the dis scene and an in of the gay liberatn movement that spawned out of San Francis. It wasn’t until after hostg var episos of the show for a uple years – which all centered on LGBT issu – that she spoke openly about her partner of over two s and the stggl of beg gay the mic dtry. “I thk the rerd dtry – by and large what’s left of – is still totally homophobic, ” she said, notg that she me out her twenti and never went to “lengths” to nceal .
Brish punk rocker Tom Robson achieved chart succs wh h songs “2-4-6-8 Motorway”, “Up Agast the Wall” and “Don’t Take No for an Answer, ” but he’ll always be immortalized for his sgalong prott anthem, “Glad to be Gay. ” Origally wrten for a 1976 London gay pri march, the song was nearly banned by the BBC 1978 – although DJ John Peel fied the stricture.
Swappg out punk moralist clichés for LGBT issu, the them unrlg the group’s mic give voice to both fury and hope for gay punks. Pollg released Wednday nfirmed that more Amerins than ever before intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer.
GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * gay record *
“It reflects what we are seeg society and the way society is changg, ” Gallup senr edor Jeff Jon said, later tellg NBC News that “younger people are growg up an environment where beg gay, lbian or bisexual is not as taboo as was the past”. A June 2020 Gallup report found that 67% of Amerins back gay marriage, up om 53% 2012, when Gallup first started trackg. " (Those remarks were ma soon after the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Florida, where 49 people were killed by a gunman.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
"As the world go mad, Florida reprents a refuge of sany and a cal of normalcy, " he said earlier this new DeSantis vio quickly drew bipartisan cricism om the LGBTQ Tmp adviser and ambassador Richard Grenell, who is gay, wrote on Twter that the vio was "unniably homophobic. ""Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women's sports, safeguard women's spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis' extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, " the group wrote on Twter.
LBIANS ON TV OUTNUMBER GAY MEN FOR FIRST TIME EVER, SAYS GLAAD
H., June 27, Reynolds/APTransportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat who is also gay, was asked on CNN to rpond to the vio. "A spokperson for DeSantis' mpaign, Christa Phaw, rpond to Grennell's cricism on Twter, wrg on Friday: "Opposg the feral regnn of 'Pri Month' isn't 'homophobic. Sony Mic has teamed wh the founr of a gay ble work to form a rerd label geared toward velopg gay, lbian and transgenr rerdg label, dubbed Mic Wh A Twist, plans to employ talent suts natnwi to fd emergg artists who have generated a buzz the gay muny and have the potential for mass appeal.
WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
"It's a home that says to artists, 'We not only are OK wh who you are, but we embrace that as part of your inty, "' said Matt Farber, print of Wilrns Media & Entertament and founr of Logo, the MTV Networks channel targetg gay dienc.
Farber pared the ncept of a rerd label focg on gay artists wh that of urban labels formed to nurture rap or hip-hop plans to sign artists verg a variety of mil genr and also release pilatns wh songs by tablished Mic has also agreed to bee a charter sponsor of a syndited rad show produced by Wilrns Media and dubbed Twist that is lnchg this weekend several markets and onle. Osborne told Time magaze Febary that he is gay and has known for years, but he kept a secret bee of untry mic's mostly nservative fan base. Ronen Rubste's gay character on "9-1-1: Lone Star" helped him get fortable wh his own sexualy.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgenr, Genrqueer, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, Agenr, Asexual, Ally, and other queer-intifyg muny rerds. Adults self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg other than heterosexual, and members of Generatn Z are drivg the growth, acrdg to rults om a Gallup survey published most recent rults mark double the percentage of adults who self-intified as LGBTQ 2012, when Gallup first measured , and an crease om 2021, when the same survey found that 5. )Gen Zers are also more likely to intify as lbian, gay, transgenr or “other” than members of other generatns, acrdg to the rults.