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Contents:

• SONY MIC LNCH GAY RERD LABEL
• PATRICK COWLEY, THE GAY GENI OF HI-NRG
• SUBVERSIVE SOUNDS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO MA AMERI'S FIRST GAY RERD
• SONY TO LNCH GAY RERD LABEL
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• WILCOX-GAY
• SUBVERSIVE SOUNDS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO MA AMERI’S FIRST GAY RERD | COLLECTORS WEEKLY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

SONY MIC LNCH GAY RERD LABEL

Sony Mic has teamed wh the founr of a gay ble work to form a rerd label geared toward velopg gay, lbian and transgenr rerdg label, dubbed Mic Wh A Twist, plans to employ talent suts natnwi to fd emergg artists who have generated a buzz the gay muny and have the potential for mass appeal. "It's a home that says to artists, 'We not only are OK wh who you are, but we embrace that as part of your inty, "' said Matt Farber, print of Wilrns Media & Entertament and founr of Logo, the MTV Networks channel targetg gay dienc. Farber pared the ncept of a rerd label focg on gay artists wh that of urban labels formed to nurture rap or hip-hop plans to sign artists verg a variety of mil genr and also release pilatns wh songs by tablished Mic has also agreed to bee a charter sponsor of a syndited rad show produced by Wilrns Media and dubbed Twist that is lnchg this weekend several markets and onle.

In recent years, we’ve seen micians talk openly about their gay inty and same-sex relatnships. Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn. His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview.

PATRICK COWLEY, THE GAY GENI OF HI-NRG

As the earlit show of queer solidary om a proment metal mician, Halford’s admissn proved val rhapg the public perceptn of heavy metal, repostg an earspltg, heteronormative boys’ club as a safe space where headbangers of all typ uld be themselv, sheltered the flailg arms of not jt a benevolent (and openly gay) God, but the scene wr large.

SUBVERSIVE SOUNDS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO MA AMERI'S FIRST GAY RERD

” The fact that he did all while beg pletely open about his sexualy – llg himself “rock’s tt fairy” – is astoundg and, for a brief, shg moment 1974, Jobriath beme the most visible gay man popular mic. While the “Queen of Dis” is a tle most monly btowed upon Donna Summer, also appli to Sylvter, who was a fixture of the dis scene and an in of the gay liberatn movement that spawned out of San Francis. The tle track even clus the lyric: “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay.

It wasn’t until after hostg var episos of the show for a uple years – which all centered on LGBT issu – that she spoke openly about her partner of over two s and the stggl of beg gay the mic dtry.

SONY TO LNCH GAY RERD LABEL

“I thk the rerd dtry – by and large what’s left of – is still totally homophobic, ” she said, notg that she me out her twenti and never went to “lengths” to nceal . Brish punk rocker Tom Robson achieved chart succs wh h songs “2-4-6-8 Motorway”, “Up Agast the Wall” and “Don’t Take No for an Answer, ” but he’ll always be immortalized for his sgalong prott anthem, “Glad to be Gay. ” Origally wrten for a 1976 London gay pri march, the song was nearly banned by the BBC 1978 – although DJ John Peel fied the stricture.

Swappg out punk moralist clichés for LGBT issu, the them unrlg the group’s mic give voice to both fury and hope for gay punks. Based Philalphia, Pennsylvania, they unapologetilly exclaim that there’s no space for racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia or hate the spac that they make up for the LGBTQIA+ muny, by the LGBTQIA+ muny.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Before his ath 1982, Patrick Cowley produced some of the Amerin gay unrground's most thrillg dance mic, om chart-toppg dis to radil club tracks.

“As a gay cis man, I’ve stggled to be taken serly for most of my reer. Boy Band Members Who Are Out As Gay, Bisexual or Queer.

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Like a magic mirror held up to Ameri’s heteronormative postwar culture, s mic reflected a dignified, and sctive, visn of gay life.

SUBVERSIVE SOUNDS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO MA AMERI’S FIRST GAY RERD | COLLECTORS WEEKLY

” For those LGBTQ folks the know, this rerd offered a glimpse of the acceptance they’d long been nied, subtly placg gay romance to the standard mil non. “Around the mid-’90s, I started focg on gay and lbian mic, so that was probably when I first disvered this album, ” Doyle explas.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

A., and his pany had been stmental producg the secret gay album.

Though Garrett and Howard were both straight and married to women, the ia for “Love Is a Drag” had e om one of Garrett’s fond memori of gay Greenwich Village. He was a club wh some iends and wasn’t really payg attentn to the fact that was a gay club, but sudnly Murray realized the male performer was sgg standards wh male pronouns like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Can’t Help Lov’ That Man of Me, ’ and he was really taken by that. As New York Cy’s bohemian center, Greenwich Village hosted several popular gay bars and jazz clubs the 1940s.