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Contents:

• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• SOUTHERN GOSPEL SGER KENNY BISHOP IS NOW A GAY UNED CHURCH OF CHRIST PASTOR
• PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?
• “I DON’T CONMN HOMOSEXUALY” GOSPEL SGER TYE TRIBBETT SAYS BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• GAYS, GOD AND GOSPEL MIC
• EX-GAY GOSPEL SGER DONNIE MCCLURK UNR FIRE AFTER SPEAKG OUT AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULG

40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

The fact that there are many mic artists who are openly gay is a big step for LGBTQ+ rights, which mak the artists important and fluential. And that’s why gay rockstars were so important – and Freddie Mercury was probably the most fluential. In one of the terviews, the sger said he was spired by Elton John throughout his life, and he is also a famo gay sger.

Eher way, g out as gay was a life-changg (and liberatg) cisn for Ricky Mart, and he is now nsired one of the most fluential LGBT artists the world. However, 2012, he scribed himself as gay, and he has been more open about his private life ever sce.

All thgs nsired, Mika’s songs are an tegral part of morn pop mic, and he remas one of the most fluential gay pop stars. Well, he is certaly makg a difference, pecially the metal genre, which mak him one of the most fluential gay sgers mic dtry.

SOUTHERN GOSPEL SGER KENNY BISHOP IS NOW A GAY UNED CHURCH OF CHRIST PASTOR

Wh the succs of his album Trspassg, Lambert was also the first openly gay sger to have an album reach number one on the Billboard 200 charts.

That beg said, Gee Michael’s ntributn to LGBT right was immense, and he will always be remembered as one of the most proment gay sgers of all time.

Regardg his personal life, he was married to his high-school sweetheart San Deixler the 60s, but he me out as gay 2007. In a way, he is an inic gay rock star – not bee of his inty, but bee he spired generatns of LGBT people. In one of the terviews, Stipe scribed himself as a ‘queer artist’, although he prevly didn’t want to label himself gay or straight.

PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?

The song spent 19 weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 – meanwhile, Lil Nas X me out as gay, which ma him the first artist to do so while beg on the top of the chart.

A Canadian sger and songwrer Ruf Wawright has been open about his homosexualy sce he was a teenager.

“I DON’T CONMN HOMOSEXUALY” GOSPEL SGER TYE TRIBBETT SAYS BEG GAY IS NATURAL

Tennant publicly me out as gay 1994, when he nfirmed the terview for the Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu. Billy Porter me out as gay when he was 16, and he is an outspoken advote for LGBT and racial rights.

BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP

In fact, Grand is one of the few openly gay untry artists, which mak his openns even more important and fluential.

Grand has performed on numero Pri events, and his mic often revolv around his experienc as a gay person. But he me out as gay neverthels, which ma him one of the most fluential gay pop sgers of his era.

Ltle did I know that Kenny had strayed far om his Fundamentalist Christian roots and was now a married gay man and a bivotnal pastor at Bluegrass Uned Church of Christ  Lexgton, Kentucky! Are you like her and believe that God lov and accepts everyone spe their sexual orientatn or is she missg val knowledge om the Holy Bible that still shows homosexualy, as well as her views of J’ love, is not necsarily wrong, but plete? (Photo by Paras Griff/Getty Imag for ESSENCE)McClurk, 61, had prevly opened up years ago about his past stggl wh homosexualy, which he lled a “perversn, ” and claimed that he was able to supprs his sexual orientatn, cg his and many Christian church’ stance on homosexualy as a admted that he still had urg to be wh men but chose not to.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Comparg homosexualy to diabet he said, “I don’t eat sugar, but don’t mean that I don’t want sugar.

”Read More: Kirk Frankl lls out homophobia the church: ‘Nothg to do wh the Bible’Now, the Grammy Award-wng artist says he believ his stggle over his sexualy will leave him whout the fay he always dreamed of. ”Read More: Kelly Rowland explas why she left her church after Dty’s Child’s ‘secular mic’ cricism“There may be some who will read this and rent some of the statements ma about homosexualy.

GAYS, GOD AND GOSPEL MIC

My hope is for gay/queer children and adults are met wh love and acceptance so they n eely exist. However, to disver pro-homosexual activi among the so lled psalmists, should shock Southern Gospel’s fahful.

This article will only touch a ltle rner of this wispread problem, specifilly the most visual, yet ignored, homosexual and pro-homosexual artists. When you read the summary of his “ttimony” you will see why a ant gay group would agree to the terms.

EX-GAY GOSPEL SGER DONNIE MCCLURK UNR FIRE AFTER SPEAKG OUT AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULG

The three prised the Talley Tr Talleys rrected 3/29) knew that Kirk was gay for almost 20 years before the sndal broke. ” I thought was bee he was ntactg gay men wh pornographic pictur of himself orr to “discs” his hidn gay sir! In ttimony language meetg gay men onle wh lewd photographs of onelf orr to act upon his sodome urg while you ntue to ceive the church is translated as, “fdg someone to talk to.

When he answered that he had been at a gay church, his spirual advisor asked him, “aren’t you aaid to sg there?

” Kirk arrogantly repli, “When he said that I jt kda… I jt kda snapped, (crowd lghs) I said, ‘LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, I’ve sung to gay people all my life’ I said, ‘They’ve jt been hid, your ngregatn, and on your staff, and on, and your choir, no I’m not aaid to sg there. ’ I said, ‘how nsistent would be of my ttimony if I said, “no I n’t go and sg” (homosexual crowd claps).