The history of pop mic, and of black pop mic particular, has always been gay history.
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ON THIS GAY DAY: BLU SGER MA RAEY DIED 1939
* ma rainey gay *
Keep md that as recently as the ’80s, gay, whe artists such as Gee Michael and Judas Prit volist Rob Halford worried that the pfalls of g out publicly would be too great for their rpective reers to survive.
We pored through the lyrics of Ma’s numero rerdgs search of most ground-breakg gay lyrics.
Although direct referenc to homosexualy n be unted on one hand, more obscure nods n be found as she sgs l that dite her disda for the abive men her life. Check out the awome exprsns om one of Ameri’s earlit pro-gay voic mic below:. As opposed to her other nods to homosexualy, which were often sprkled spargly wh a le or two of a stanza, seems Ma wrote this particular tune explicly om the viewpot of a lbian woman.
Was Ma Raey Gay? Who Was Ma Raey's Hband? * ma rainey gay *
But further along, she seems to be scribg woman drsed men’s “brogan sho, ” footwear that wouldn’t be worn by any woman unls she was cross-drsg or gay 1920s Ameri.
She don’t scribe anythg that uld really be nsted unequivolly as a gay lyric, but she sgs, “I don’t want no man to put sugar my tea, ” which is perhaps to say she’d prefer a woman did stead. She's gay. Her nfn is overstated, and maybe liberately ironic: Like her mil mentor Ma Raey, Smh had numero sexual relatnships wh both men and women, and was que faiar wh gay and lbian subcultur.