Lookg for a list of the bt gay sgers and gay micians of all time? We've round up our top picks along wh their bt songs!
Contents:
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- GAY INS
- WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
- THE 12 GREATT FEMALE GAY INS OF ALL TIME
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
* pop gay icons *
When Madonna ed her posn as the biggt pop star on the pla to explore darker them of the sexualy that lks all, was as brave a move as a new act allowg themselv to be marketed as the world’s first “out” rock star the early 70s, when “gay liberatn” had barely got gog.
His homoerotic 1972 Top Of The Pops performance of “Starman” wh Mick Ronson set youngsters’ puls racg and their parents’ blood prsure risg, but helped cement Bowie’s superstar stat the UK, wh the rt of the world tchg up not long after. Her 1961 double-album, Judy At Carnegie Hall (later performed live s entirety by Ruf Wawright), bagged a Grammy and beme the five highlight of her illtr reer, which was cut short by her early ath 1969 – an event that, ’s said, helped spark the Stonewall Rts New York and marked the begng of the morn gay-rights movement.
GAY INS
Maybe was the famo Bob Mackie ocks on her US televisn spectaculars, but gay men saw somethg special om the start pop’s perennial survivor, who left a troubled marriage yet a succsful bs partnership wh Sonny to fe a huge solo reer.
A famo statement, released at the lnch of his 2013 tobgraphy, ma clear he was “humasexual, ” not homosexual, spe the revelatn he’d been a relatnship wh photographer Jake Owen Walters.
Overwhelmed by the ill-advised marketg tsunami that characterized his 1973 self-tled but, the openly gay rock sger tapped to the -vogue glam scene to a largely different public rponse. Diana was of the most fervent advot for those afflicted wh the HIV/AIDS, pecially the early years of the disease’s onslght, and she did this at a time when few others would – a time when gay men beme public enemy no.
WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
Those who were ma to feel “different” by a society that was largely homophobic uld intify wh Diana’s suatn life, and most uld admire her for the fiant poise and grace wh which she handled all.
THE 12 GREATT FEMALE GAY INS OF ALL TIME
Harvey Milk was a trailblazg openly gay polician who, as a member of San Fransis’s Cy Board of Supervisors, champned gay rights before beg assassated alongsi the cy mayor by a disgntled polil rival. What mak the acplishment even more admirable is that she had to overe ocsnal homophobia om the lol electorate – somethg which seems to be a fact of life even supposedly progrsive Chigo.
Lightfoot was honored as one of the grand marshals of the Chigo Pri Para 2019, and 2020 she was named by Queerty (an onle magaze verg LGBT liftyle and news) as one of the 50 hero “leadg the natn toward equaly, acceptance, and digny for all people, ” honor of the 50th anniversary of the first gay pri para (which took place on June 28th, 1970 NYC). Asi om his role as the groomg expert of the Queer Eye reboot, Jonathan has starred the web seri Gay of Thron, and is the host of his own podst, Gettg Cur wh Jonathan Van Ns, which won the iHeartRad Podst Award for Bt LGBTQ Podst. The actrs, edian, wrer, and Saturday Night Live alum is also an openly lbian woman who has also appeared on The Big Gay Sketch Show, addn to the Audible d seri Heads Will Roll (which has also featured Bob the Drag Queen and Queer Eye’s Fab Five).