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- STEVE BRONSKI, OF THE PNEERG GAY BAND BRONSKI BEAT, DI AT 61
- PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
- PATRICK HAGGERTY, REGARD AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC SGER, DEAD AT 78
- FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
- 2ND OPENLY GAY BLACK SGER ON MOTOWN RERDS CARL BEAN HAS DIED, WHO WAS THE FIRST?
STEVE BRONSKI, OF THE PNEERG GAY BAND BRONSKI BEAT, DI AT 61
He was part of a Brish tr whose songs often directly addrsed gay them and issu a way few other pop mic acts were dog. * gay singers dead *
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTHe was part of a Brish tr whose songs often directly addrsed gay them and issu a way few other pop mic acts were Cor/Redferns, via Getty ImagSteve Bronski, part of the 1980s Brish synth-pop tr Bronski Beat, whose members were openly gay at a time when that was unmon and whose early songs unabashedly addrsed homophobia and other gay issu, died after a fire on Dec. It was a stark story of a young gay man’s pe om a provcial town where he had endured a homophobic attack; a hntg chos repeats, “Run away, turn away.
A follow-up, “Why?, ” another chart succs, was equally direct, the lyrics speakg to the ostracism and social disapproval experienced by gay people.
PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
Patrick Haggerty, the first openly gay untry mic sger, died Monday several weeks after sufferg a stroke. * gay singers dead *
”At the time, a number of mastream performers — Elton John, the Village People, Boy Gee — telegraphed gayns, often wh stereotypil flamboyance, but they rarely addrsed gay issu directly song. The album sleeve listed the “mimum age for lawful homosexual relatnships between men” European untri, an effort to unrsre that the age Bra at the time, 21, was higher than was almost everywhere else. The sleeve also clud a phone number for a gay legal advice Bronski said the tr didn’t start out as a polil or social statement.
“We were jt wrg songs that spoke about our liv at the time, ” he told the magaze Gay Tim 2018.
PATRICK HAGGERTY, REGARD AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC SGER, DEAD AT 78
It's always heartbreakg to fd out that a beloved gay celebry has died of AIDS. AIDS is a disease which effects an dividual's immune system, for which ... * gay singers dead *
Whaley said that though Bronski Beat’s bt-known songs had gay-centric lyrics, “their appeal crossed the boundari of sexual alignment.
FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
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“It was a lot easier livg London, ” he told Classic Pop magaze 2019, explag why he and other gay men had gravated to the cy, “sce there was a thrivg gay scene pared to other parts of the untry. “I thk a lot of the songs are as relevant today as they were all those years ago, ” he told Gay Tim.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 11 of the New York edn wh the headle: Steve Bronski, 61, Is Dead; Part of Bronski Beat Band That Addrsed Gay Issu.
2ND OPENLY GAY BLACK SGER ON MOTOWN RERDS CARL BEAN HAS DIED, WHO WAS THE FIRST?
Pri that beme a much-remixed club favore — and who then beme a mister and AIDS activist, foundg a church Los Angel that sought to serve the spirual needs of gay people and others who were margalized — died on Tuday Los Angel. Bean, who was openly gay om a young age, was a sger before he was a preacher and received the tle archbishop, rerdg gospel songs for ABC Rerds the mid-1970s as the ontman for the group Carl Bean and Universal Love.