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Contents:

• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• THE GAY 80S: ARE WE NOW LS ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ MIC?

40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Michael JacksonRay CharlBarry WheLuther VandrossStevie WonrMarv GayeBilly OceanJackie WilsonJefey OsborneIsaac Hay80s Male Duo SgersThere’s somethg about male duos that jt seems to work. But a few rare stanc, they were able to turn their brief moment the sun to a long and succsful ’s a look at some of the biggt one-h wonrs of the 1980s, cludg Toni Basil, A Flock of Seagulls, and Soft Dolby (Song – She Bld Me Wh Science)Toni Basil (Song – Mickey)Michael Sembello (Song – Maniac)John Wae (Song – Missg You)Bce Willis (Song – Rpect Yourself)Robbie Nevil (Song – C’t La Vie)Johnny Kemp (Song – Jt Got Paid)Don Johnson (Song – Heartbeat)Robbie Dupree (Song – Steal Away)Jack Wagner (Song – All I Need)Eddie Murphy (Song – Party All the Time)Gay Male Sgers 80sWhile the LGBT muny has always been a part of the mic dtry, was not until recently that they have begun to receive the mastream regnn they serve.

Among the most succsful gay male sgers of the 80s were Gee Michael, Elton John, and Boy MichaelAndy BellFreddie MercuryElton JohnMark AlmondBoy GeeMichael StipeNeil TennantBarry ManilowMorrisseyHigh Pched Male Sgers 80sThere is somethg about a high-pched male voice that jt mak the ladi swoon. 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.

Adam Mchel Lambert's goth glam image began on the stag of Amerin Idol Season 8, as the show's first openly gay nttant and has sce warned our hearts and the Billboard charts. Former *NSYNC member and once hopeful astront Lance Bass nfirmed mors that he was gay and a relatnship wh Amazg Race wner Reichen Lehmkuhl after the New York Post reported that he and Lehmkuhl were seen at a gay bar.

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

LGBTQ+ CelebriLists of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and all other kds of celebs workg the entertament dtry and the public addns: Miss BennyBrian Molko is the most divisive on this listThe LGBTQ+ muny has long been celebrated wh the mic dtry, as some of the biggt stars of the late 20th century and beyond have intified themselv as such. As an openly gay artist sce the early 1970s, he has been a trailblazer for LGBTQ+ reprentatn the mic dtry while g his platform to advote for HIV/AIDS awarens and other philanthropic .

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

For his legn lennial and Generatn Z fans, he’s among the first artists of their lifetime to ankly explore gay sex pop – notably on his recent send album, Bloom – and they’ve hailed him as a trailblazer. The wds of the gay liberatn movement had been blowg strong for a : queer black men such as Sylvter had been at the heart of dis and the children of Bowie were g of age jt as MTV, a new medium that valued the high-energy visuals of queer nightclubs, was male pop artists were prevly few and far between: Ltle Richard’s lyrics about anal sex were cut om Tutti Ftti, and only took Bowie’s arm draped over the shoulr of Mick Ronson on Top of the Pops 1972 to send middle England reelg. “You had a backcloth of pop mic that was absolutely full of gay people, even megastars like Freddie Mercury and Elton John, but most of them were livg some sort of closeted existence, ” Flynn says.

“There was Boy Gee, Pete Burns – who was married, but who is what you would now ll queer – Morrissey sgg about ‘handsome vils’, Pet Shop Boys wh their slightly more opaque readgs of sexualy, Marc Almond om Soft Cell, Gee Michael, who was closeted even though everyone the dtry knew he was gay. As cric Aled Soto wrote of Gee Michael: “Fe wh queerns so long as the artists didn’t ask or tell, the 1980s were the last time pop stars uld wear fgerls kchen glov whout dienc assumg they were gay. Stock, Aken and Waterman, the songwrg tr who wrote for Dive and were rponsible for such 80s gay anthems as Dead or Alive’s You Sp Me Round (Like a Rerd), started wrg for Kylie Mogue and Jason Donovan (a man so heterosexual he sued a magaze for claimg he was gay).

The unrground sound they had hered to the mastream gave way to somethg safer, gay male figure, now too threateng to be marketable, vanished om pop and to unrground spac or behd DJ cks. Celebry outgs beme a racket for tabloids that knew the jtery public would jump at such Michael: Outsi – vioAs mastream pop eher disappeared or grad gay men, many gay male pop nsumers rorted largely to “disintifitn” wh straight female pop stars durg the 90s and 00s: the procs by which, the absence of reprentative role mols, queer people claim a piece of culture that is not explicly queer. “Gay men didn’t love Madonna Eva bee they were terted Argentian history, ” says stars the 90s and 00s such as Madonna, Mariah and Kylie equently attributed their succs to loyal gay fanbas.

THE GAY 80S: ARE WE NOW LS ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ MIC?

Their succs me not om the plsible niabily of the 80s, nor om the proxy sexualy of the 90s – but simply om the ronance of their queer visn a world that was slowly drag of gay panic.