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Contents:

• OVERLOOKED NO MORE: JOBRIATH, OPENLY GAY GLAM ROCKER THE ’70S
• GAY GLAM COM TO HBO
• ZAKK WYLDE: 'BLACK LABEL SOCIETY PUTS GAY INTO GAYNS'
• INSI THE FASCATG HISTORY OF GLTER AND GAY CULTURE

OVERLOOKED NO MORE: JOBRIATH, OPENLY GAY GLAM ROCKER THE ’70S

In the 1920s and early ’30s, Prohibn’s end gave way to the “Pansy Craze”: baret drag performanc that brought gay nightlife to the mass and rried their athetics to mastream mil theater. In the mid-’30s, at the edge of the Great Deprsn, moral backlash—sometim disguised as enomic nservatism but ually explic s bigotry—shut down many of the clubs and formally crimalized gay sex at a sle that had never before been seen.

GAY GLAM COM TO HBO

Jazz n’t be imaged whout the ntributns of giants like Billy Strayhorn (of De Ellgton’s band), who was openly gay, and, later, Cecil Taylor, who found that three-letter word was too limg.

The ’70s brought glam and dis, genr play, and explicly queer nightlife back to the mastream; we n’t fet that ’s great gay pop in, Elton John, and s great bisexual on, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury.

ZAKK WYLDE: 'BLACK LABEL SOCIETY PUTS GAY INTO GAYNS'

Lang, the Indigo Girls), all the way to today, a moment that young pop star Hayley Kiyoko teasgly refers to as “#20gayteen. Their first gay kiss was junr high, wh someone wearg a matchg flannel, while listeng to Peter Murphy's "Deep" on shared Sport Walkman headphon. ”Such was the plited existence of Jobriath, who is generally regard as the first openly gay rock star.

INSI THE FASCATG HISTORY OF GLTER AND GAY CULTURE

The productn st was timated at an exorbant $200, ad mpaign is one reason Jobriath is nsired to this day to have been among the mic dtry’s most overhyped the gay liberatn movement growg the early 1970s, Brandt assumed that Jobriath would be readily embraced.