The history of pop mic, and of black pop mic particular, has always been gay history.
Contents:
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- SISSY MAN BLU: STRAIGHT & GAY BLU
- ON THIS GAY DAY: BLU SGER MA RAEY DIED 1939
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
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SISSY MAN BLU: STRAIGHT & GAY BLU
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Billy Strayhorn, pianist and wrer wh the De Ellgton orchtra, was openly gay. Hugh' private life was also much ls public than Raey's—but most scholars believe he was gay, and he did wre sympathetilly about gay characters a number of his works.
ON THIS GAY DAY: BLU SGER MA RAEY DIED 1939
Gay performers, and sometim gay subtext, ntued to be a part of blu and jazz and their rivativ. That history has often been obscured though, so that, for example, the mixture of gay and Ain-Amerin fluenc dis was seen at the time as somehow alien to, or outsi of, the blu/rock leage, rather than as a natural part of . But fact, the history of pop mic general, and of black pop mic particular, has always been gay history.