Chart Toppg Sgers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
• GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the on who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized marg, gay terwoven muny clud Brian Epste (who brought the world the Beatl), K Lambert (who -managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Ge), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smh (who formed the visnary label Charisma for bands like Genis). A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood. ”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle.

”In some ways, managers like Epste and other others uld sulate themselv om the everyday life of gay men at the time – throwg their own exclive parti and circulatg elevated circl where they uld do as they pleased.

Ironilly, after the law agast homosexual acts changed Bra 1967 – crimalizg them certa circumstanc and for those of a certa age – the harassment of LGBTQ people actually tensified. “But post-67, and wh the formatn of the Gay Liberatn Front 1970 Bra and wh gay people beg more outspoken, the raids and the psdo-polil attacks started to happen more.

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

The song spent 19 weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 – meanwhile, Lil Nas X me out as gay, which ma him the first artist to do so while beg on the top of the chart. Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English sger and songwrer, who is bt known as the lead volist for the Grammy Award-wng heavy metal band Judas Prit and famed for his powerful wi rangg operatic lead volist of Judas Prit is gay and he has stated that. Prce Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 - April 21st, 2016) was an Amerin mician, bt known for beg one of the most popular and fluential artists om the 80s, wh songs such as "Purple Ra", "Ltle Red Corvette", "1999", and "When Dov Cry" was gay secret.

Poor old Johnnie Ray, as he was referred Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ “Come On Eileen, ” was a closeted gay man, arrted for solicg male unrver officers on more than one ocsn. From the Tony Award wng mil Cabaret, wrten by openly gay lyricist Fred Ebb and openly gay poser John Kanr, based on a book by openly gay wrer Christopher Isherwood, this number, performed by Joel Grey, who publicly me out 2015 at age 82. 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.

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! 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. Still, people have terpreted as havg a gay theme sce he mentned that an terview when the song me out and even mentned that he would be gay if he wasn’t wh his wife.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Not only do he have a boy csh on David Watts, David Watts is gay, scribed the song as “so gay and fancy ee” and that “all the girls the neighbourhood try to go out wh David Watts… but n’t succeed. One of my iends and a fan of the blog said that this classic rock rad staple and standard uld have some homoerotic unrton bee the song is performed as a duet between two men: Jack Bce and Eric Clapton and that same year same sex activy between men was crimalised. We Love You – The Rollg Ston (wh John Lennon and Pl McCartney on backg vols) – The song self isn’t gay per se, but the mic vio is and ’s one that picts a very sad moment gay history and the timg of the song and mic vio’s release is signifint.

Before Osr Wil was on trial for beg gay, he sued the Marqus of Queensberry (Lord Aled Douglas’ dad) for libel (he lled him a sodome and was upset that he was datg his son), agast his iends’ advice – they were all tellg him that will lead to nothg but trouble and that he should n away to France, where beg gay was legal (has been sce 1791). Last Night Soho – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich – Wrten by the gay songwrg duo (also DDDBMT’s managers) Howard and Blaikley, this song tak place Soho, famo the 60s for s nightclubs, red light district, and also beg the gay district.

While the song self isn’t about gay people, I mean would be hard for to be bee homosexualy was only legalised the year before, there is a double entendre the lyrics – which are about an ex-nvict tryg to go straight, but led astray by his crimal iends. ” Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton spired this lyric and song generally wh an ia of aliens g to take over, but this uld be terpreted as havg a gay and sexual liberatn theme.

CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era. Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi .

Much of Erasure’s disgraphy embodi not precisely celebratory gay pri but gay romantic realy – a ankns about the emotnal, if not overtly sexual, liv of gay men toward the end of the 20th century. The Bay Area gay punk pneers found a ht of mastream fame when they toured wh Green Day on their Dookie n 1994, but was their sexy lyrics and who-giv-a-fuck attu that enared them to a generatn of queer kids – before that term was even fashnable. It’s difficult to pick one song that f them – wh songs like “Dick of Death, ” “Groovy Unrwear” or their classic ver of Prce’s “Jack You Off” – but we went wh one that seems to fy the ia of a gay “anthem” no matter how you thk of .