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

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The Stonewall rts were a seri of spontaneo, vlent monstratns by members of the gay (LGBT) muny agast a police raid that began the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York Cy. They are wily nsired to nstute the most important event leadg to the gay liberatn movement and the morn fight for LGBT rights the Uned Stat. Even more notable was her play, World – Birth of A Natn, which was set a hospal and alt wh male stratn –– evokg both transgenr surgery and her mixed feelgs about men, both gay and straight.

Sadly, Dive (now a gay, transgenr in) died 1988 of rpiratory problems, days after the openg of his greatt actg succs, Hairspray. Charl Piece 1926-1999 was what might be lled a female impersonator (he lled himself a Male Actrs) who found favor wh dienc both straight and gay wh his knowg imprsns of Bette Davis, Mae Wt, Tallulah Bankhead and Carol Channg, Such impersonatns were que tradnal for a ic performer of this sort. But he won a special place the hearts of the gay on, as shown the 1977 edy-drama Outrageo which he plays a character largely based on himself.

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(1947-1988) was born Los Angel, but first me to public attentn when he moved to San Francis and joed the legendary gay hippie performance troupe The Cockett. Steve Grossman (1951-1991) a gay sger-songwrer of the early 1970s whose album Caravan Tonight (1974) is distguished as beg the first album alg wh openly gay subject matter released by a major rerd label, Mercury Rerds. He died om AIDS leavg his Joni Mchell-flected songs, rerd much the style of sger-songwrer Cat Stevens, opposed to the then-current glam Bowique fashn of openly gay artists.

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His books clu Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-2000, The Srse Picture: The Art and Life of Mart Srse and Cahiers du Cema — Masters of Cema: Roman Polanski.

The fact that there are many mic artists who are openly gay is a big step for LGBTQ+ rights, which mak the artists important and fluential. And that’s why gay rockstars were so important – and Freddie Mercury was probably the most fluential. In one of the terviews, the sger said he was spired by Elton John throughout his life, and he is also a famo gay sger.