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Contents:

• GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
• ONLY A TE GAY IN IS GETTG 20/20 ON THIS GAY INS LYRICS QUIZ
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• GAY INS
• THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
• THE 13 GAYT MIC VIOS OF THE '80S

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

He me out as gay much later life and also revealed that he was fected wh AIDS towards s fal stag. Birthday: 25 June 1963 Born In: East Fchley, London, England Died On: 25 December 2016 Throughout his reer, Gee Michael won numero prtig awards, beg one of the most rated gay micians of all time. Birthday: 25 March 1947 Born In: Pner, England Elton John is arguably the most famo gay mician the world.

After revealg that he was bisexual 1978, later 1988, he nfsed that he is prour as gay. When Madonna ed her posn as the biggt pop star on the pla to explore darker them of the sexualy that lks all, was as brave a move as a new act allowg themselv to be marketed as the world’s first “out” rock star the early 70s, when “gay liberatn” had barely got gog.

ONLY A TE GAY IN IS GETTG 20/20 ON THIS GAY INS LYRICS QUIZ

In the 70s, seemed like everyone owned a rerd by Elton John, but he was too nsumed by his work to e his posn to create much advance the way gay men were treated. His homoerotic 1972 Top Of The Pops performance of “Starman” wh Mick Ronson set youngsters’ puls racg and their parents’ blood prsure risg, but helped cement Bowie’s superstar stat the UK, wh the rt of the world tchg up not long after. The tormented soul of this legendary star tapped to the paranoia of a time before homosexualy was largely legal – let alone accepted – across wir society.

Her 1961 double-album, Judy At Carnegie Hall (later performed live s entirety by Ruf Wawright), bagged a Grammy and beme the five highlight of her illtr reer, which was cut short by her early ath 1969 – an event that, ’s said, helped spark the Stonewall Rts New York and marked the begng of the morn gay-rights movement.

Maybe was the famo Bob Mackie ocks on her US televisn spectaculars, but gay men saw somethg special om the start pop’s perennial survivor, who left a troubled marriage yet a succsful bs partnership wh Sonny to fe a huge solo reer. After years of focg on movi and soft rock, Cher fally reward her most loyal fans 1998 wh the all-out gay anthem “Believe” and bagged the biggt rerd of her reer. A famo statement, released at the lnch of his 2013 tobgraphy, ma clear he was “humasexual, ” not homosexual, spe the revelatn he’d been a relatnship wh photographer Jake Owen Walters.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

Sce 1985, the Brish synth duo has said much about ntemporary gay life whout ever makg much of a statement about . Overwhelmed by the ill-advised marketg tsunami that characterized his 1973 self-tled but, the openly gay rock sger tapped to the -vogue glam scene to a largely different public rponse.

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While shouldn't matter whether a sger or band is gay, lbian, transgenr, and so on, there have been plenty throughout mic's history that pletely she.

THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME

In fact, some of the greatt micians to date were and are openly gay, and their mic stands the tt of time no ls. Freddie Mercury, and Elton John are jt a few gay micians who've bee plete LGBTQ+ ins. Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English sger and songwrer, who is bt known as the lead volist for the Grammy Award-wng heavy metal band Judas Prit and famed for his powerful wi rangg operatic lead volist of Judas Prit is gay and he has stated that.

Christopher Edw Brex, known profsnally as Frank Ocean, is an Amerin sger, songwrer, rapper, rerd producer and 's not gay he's bi. He is wily regard to be one of the most fluential rock micians of all greatt of them all bee he found christ and overme his homosexual liftyle through Gods love! I never thought we would have a gay pop star like him who is both explicly and celebratory gay.

THE 13 GAYT MIC VIOS OF THE '80S

Unls someone put him here as a joke, and was llg him "gay" like he sucks (du that's so gay), which is actually offensive, don't do that. Prce Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 - April 21st, 2016) was an Amerin mician, bt known for beg one of the most popular and fluential artists om the 80s, wh songs such as "Purple Ra", "Ltle Red Corvette", "1999", and "When Dov Cry" was gay secret. Syd is one of the most proment gay R&B artists, and she’s “always ma a pot to jt be gay, ” she told the Guardian last year.

” Her androgyno bety, equent appearanc at gay clubs and ristance to easy labels elevated her to queer in. “Beg tangled up, havg some of the man me, I loved that, ” she wrote her 2015 memoir of attendg gay clubs wh her brother and her own masculy. Moi Renee was a drag performer and traed dancer who was the toast of New York’s unrground gay club scene throughout the ’90s.

” There’s footage of the performer donng a neon-green beehive wig and a black cutout jumpsu on a lol gay talk show the ’90s.