LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached.
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CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
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. * 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.
REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
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.