Ltle Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. In everythg om his hairstyle to his lyrics, we see the fluence of gay ntemporari like Esquera and Billy Wright.
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CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
* gay singers 50s *
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. Johnny Mathis never vered up his sexual orientatn, though he didn’t e out as gay until 1982, when a reporter prted his off the rerd acknowledgment.
REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
Rudy Lewis, who sang lead on this Drifters h as well as “On Broadway” and others, was a closeted gay man who sadly died of a dg overdose when he was jt 27 years old. 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.