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BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
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The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.
Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. The host of this oasis was Patsy Vidalia, a drag performer, sger and ic who prid over the night's shows and late-night jam ssns, as well as the annual Halloween Gay Ball and stume ntt – which Bobby Marchan told an terviewer the late '90s was "the biggt show of the year at the Dew Drop. Both scene stars rerd, too, though Marchan was more succsful that rpect, as the lead volist for Huey "Piano" Smh and the Clowns, whose most notable h was 1957's "Rock' Pnmonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" (the sui generis gay piano player Jam Booker, who me to his own wh a sgular blend of pop, classil and barrelhoe blu the 1970s, also did an early turn the Clowns) and later as a solo artist.
Katey Red, the first openly gay rapper to release an album New Orleans, did so that same year, and Big Freedia, certaly the most succsful one, followed the year after. This playlist is all over the place, verg almost 70 years of wildly disparate styl, and is no way a prehensive take on the gay mic legacy of New Orleans.
GAY PARTI & EVENTS
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The Bounce, and Beyond Katey Red, "Punk Unr Prsure" Katey Red was the first openly gay bounce artist to release an album, on the lol Take Fo' Rerds label 1999. Bounce" Big Freedia, "Rent" Big Freedia wh Eri Falls, "3rd Ward Bounce" After startg out as a backup performer wh Katey Red at the turn of the lennium, Big Freedia has bee the most wily known reprentative of New Orleans bounce, gay or straight, to date; he's toured the world, llaborated wh Lizzo, Kha, RuPl and Beyoncé, and been the subject of an award-wng realy show.
CLUB GAY à ORLéANS
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