Disver Sissy Man Blu: Straight & Gay Blu by Var Artists released 1989. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic.
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SISSY MAN BLU: STRAIGHT & GAY BLU
The history of pop mic, and of black pop mic particular, has always been gay history. * blues gay term *
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That history has often been obscured though, so that, for example, the mixture of gay and Ain-Amerin fluenc dis was seen at the time as somehow alien to, or outsi of, the blu/rock leage, rather than as a natural part of . But fact, the history of pop mic general, and of black pop mic particular, has always been gay history. I remember jt a few years ago a kid me out on Disney Channel and didn't even say the word gay.
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