We have listed 30 sgers you may not have known were lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer. How many have you heard of?
Contents:
- ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS
- 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS
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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. 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. 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. 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.
Elmo’s Fire, ” who wore a silver ccifix on his right the 1980s, however, the current trend fi neat labels; the bate on whether there is a so-lled gay ear is long over. Keiynan LonsdaleHe played the love tert the gay high school rom- Love, Simon, and was that film that gave Atralian actor and sger Keiynan Lonsdale the impet to e out. The group’s sole gay member, Max, hop to make queer nversatn much more mastream, and he’s makg his missn to be vol about LGBTQ+ rights.
35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn. His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview.
As the earlit show of queer solidary om a proment metal mician, Halford’s admissn proved val rhapg the public perceptn of heavy metal, repostg an earspltg, heteronormative boys’ club as a safe space where headbangers of all typ uld be themselv, sheltered the flailg arms of not jt a benevolent (and openly gay) God, but the scene wr large. ” The fact that he did all while beg pletely open about his sexualy – llg himself “rock’s tt fairy” – is astoundg and, for a brief, shg moment 1974, Jobriath beme the most visible gay man popular mic. While the “Queen of Dis” is a tle most monly btowed upon Donna Summer, also appli to Sylvter, who was a fixture of the dis scene and an in of the gay liberatn movement that spawned out of San Francis.