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“GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
But while one room celebrated folk mic’s recent history, the other ponred what might yet month’s global Pri events acknowledge the richns of queer inty, and folk mic is creasgly part of that: gay, lbian, trans and other artists are g to munite their experienc and speak to a muny whose stori are rare the genre.
Tom Robson released Glad to Be Gay 1978, and Billy Bragg and Kirsty MacColl sang Sexualy 1991, an elated hymn to sexual liberatn. Photograph: J FaganBut you have to know where to look for songs like the, somethg that Jane Edwardson, mil director for LGBT muny choir Gay Abandon found out when preparg a queer-themed folk set.