RYM Ultimate Box Set > 80's Gay Synthpop - Rate Your Mic

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• RYM ULTIMATE BOX SET > 80'S GAY SYNTHPOP
• THE LAST DAYS OF GAY DIS

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D. -led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972.

Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee. ” “The lyrics were perfect, ” she told me Summer, ‘I Feel Love’ (1977)Gay male dance crowds were drawn to rerdgs that featured Black female volists, often intifyg wh their emotnal exprsivens and strength the face of adversy, often to the surprise of the artists, who were ually gospel-traed. Patrick Cowley, ‘Mutant Man’ (1982)Patrick Cowley fed his reputatn as one of the world’s most progrsive synthizer players durg rerdgs wh the dis pneer Sylvter, cludg “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), ” perhaps the ultimate gay male anthem.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 5 of the New York edn wh the headle: Sp Some Gay Dis. The women’s rights movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the gay rights movement were all full swg. Behd velvet rop, blacks, Latos, and wh, women and men, rich and poor, gays and straights were enuraged to wear whatever they wanted, kiss whoever they wanted and — of urse — dance however they wanted.

RYM ULTIMATE BOX SET > 80'S GAY SYNTHPOP

The movement really began wh the Stonewall Rts of 1969, the first major cint which gay men took a llective and forceful stand agast police btaly.

“If you don’t have the gays you wouldn’t have the culture, ” Joey Arias, a gay performg artist told the mm. DJs at the clubs began playg mic created by gay men, openly sexual women, and black artists. Donna Summer simulated asms songs and the Village People would flg off police uniforms, nstctn hats, and wboy outfs a celebratn of gay culture.

The dis movement, as origally was, end the ’80s, as the AIDS epimic stormed through the gay muny and fear settled over the formerly jubilant clubs. But vtig rema: Velvet rop still part for the chict outf, style mavens still fill gay clubs and paras, and mic trends ntue to transcend race and sexualy.

THE LAST DAYS OF GAY DIS

On redd, mic blogs and other plac recent years, there have been untls stori about how Dis was hated/killed bee was largely ma by black and gay micians.

But I don't thk racism or homophobia were the prime motivatns for Rock n' Roll's backlash at dis.