GayCultureLand: Joan Armatradg

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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

"As for Takg My Baby Up Town, about a uple who are shouted at the street but keep walkg arm arm, the song has bee a gay pri anthem. But Armatradg is keen to qualify s succs: “My songs are for everybody: black, whe, male, female, gay, straight, bi.

She explaed: “I was fed up wh everybody thkg I was gay.

She said: “Biddy has never sent me a Christmas rd sce then, to which I would say, ‘Have you spent 30 years beg acced of beg gay? ’ Everybody go, ‘Oh, she’s gay, isn’t she? Sexism, homophobia, racism: The folks clud this brief history have uniformly faced one or more of the obstacl along the way.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Bgraphers say Sister Tharpe was known to have a relatnship wh at least one other woman while she toured, wh the road makg easier for many women to live more openly whout fear of homophobic retributn.

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