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Contents:
- IS THERE A ‘GAY ATHETIC’ TO POP MIC?
- GAY SOUL : FDG THE HEART OF GAY SPIR AND NATURE WH SIXTEEN WRERS, HEALERS, TEACHERS, AND VISNARI
- HOW GAY SOULS GET RERNATED
- GAY SOUL, AN EXCERPT OM AN EXTRAORDARY BOOK.
- THE GAY SOUL: STARTG THE JOURNEY TO HEALG
- CHICKEN CAAR SALAD FOR THE GAY SOUL PAPERBACK – JUNE 28, 2015
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
IS THERE A ‘GAY ATHETIC’ TO POP MIC?
From Elton John to Mika, the “glam piano” genre may be as tegral to the Gay Amerin experience as hip-hop and the blu are to the Ain Amerin one * gay soul *
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.
GAY SOUL : FDG THE HEART OF GAY SPIR AND NATURE WH SIXTEEN WRERS, HEALERS, TEACHERS, AND VISNARI
Gay spirual wrer Toby Johnson tells a whimsil story about rernatn and gay mens nscns * gay soul *
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.
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. ” 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.
HOW GAY SOULS GET RERNATED
Lookg for LGBT songs about love? Want gay or lbian love songs that will really speak to you? The 21 gay love songs prove love really is love. * gay soul *
“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.
GAY SOUL, AN EXCERPT OM AN EXTRAORDARY BOOK.
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” 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. Homosexualy and spirualy do not seem, at first sight, particularly patible.
Gay people are still routely nmned by proment relig figur.
Many Jewish and Christian anizatns see homophobia as proof of orthodoxy, while fundamentalists generally believe that the more you love J, the more you should hate faggots. Some relig groups have gradually adopted more liberal views-but their acceptance of queers is often hedged wh qualifitns, such as refg to acknowledge gay marriag. Beg lbian, gay or bisexual be a way of life self, fulfillg many of the rol tradnally played by relign.
THE GAY SOUL: STARTG THE JOURNEY TO HEALG
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Or, for the more earntly cled, when there’s equaly to w, a health crisis to survive, and homoculture to nsume? And yet, spe of this mutual hostily, and spe of the virtual taboo around spirualy most queer ntexts, there are many lbian, gay and bisexual people for whom both spirualy and sexualy are sourc of strength and joy.
Some of the people practice predomantly heterosexual anizatns; others jo lbian and gay synagogu and church, or groups dited to gay spirualy, like the Radil Faeri. I put the qutns to a large number of lbian, gay and bisexual people, om a variety of different spirual tradns, while I was rearchg my book From Queer to Eterny (Cassell, 1997). ” Chris Fergon, a gay man and Buddhist, mak a siar distctn: “Relign is tryg to make you what you’re not.
CHICKEN CAAR SALAD FOR THE GAY SOUL PAPERBACK – JUNE 28, 2015
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Chris, Elizabeth and many other gay people emphasize the ner life over external dogma. Turng wards is more than a fensive rponse, however; is an evable part of realizg you are lbian, gay or bisexual.
“Bee we’re told that we’re not meant to be here, ” says Jason Oliver, a Pagan, “gay people go out of their way to fd out what they are really here for.
Another Buddhist, Fernando Guasch, agre: “This radil form of dislotn is fundamentally the re of the gay experience. Beg gay allows you to `read the world differently, ’ as the native Amerin say.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
Gay people n see through many of the `god-given tths’ that so many straight people seem to believe are moral/ethil facts about the world-they’re good myth bters.
Gay people have always been able to pot at the emperor and say he has no cloth. “When I allowed the `tth’ that I am gay, ” says Philip Joyce, a father of three, “ was an overwhelmg sight, enablg me to make sense of so many of my prev feelgs and experienc.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Realizg you are gay n e a kd of ath-of the former, ill-ftg heterosexual inty and expectatns-but leads to the experience of new life. It’s a risk that has to be taken, however; the words of Harvey Fierste’s anthem to gay pri, “Life’s not worth a damn till you n say, I am what I am. “I am what I am” is a classic statement of spirual tth as well as gay inty.
Another gay man, Peter Ashby-Saracen, was formerly volved wh fundamentalist Christians. The lbian, gay and bisexual people I spoke wh would reject this claim. As Rabbi Lnel Blue has said, spirualy the liv of lbian and gay people tends to be “hont, not rhetoric.
Another gay man, Steve Hope, is a Quaker; he fds “the eedom li beg as open as possible to ever more reali and experienc, and to share and be enriched by other people’s experience. ” Another gay man, Steve Hope, is a Quaker; he fds “the eedom li beg as open as possible to ever more reali and experienc, and to share and be enriched by other people’s experience. One way which gay people have rpond to so many years of beg margalized by mastream society is to create a very strong cultural inty of their own.