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Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• RAY_GAY
• MARV GAYE
• RAY GAY
• RAY-GAY
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Havg the natural abily to wre mic is certaly a great gift, pecially when this talent is the heart of Ray Gay, a native Clevelanr. Featured micians were Ray Gay on acrdn, Abe Kapana on guar; Andy Gilbert, tap dancer; and "Ingy" Ingal on dms.

After his tour of duty was pleted July 1954, Ray Gay returned safely to his home Cleveland where once aga he rumed his wrg and numero rerdgs followed. Where numero albums were released by John Gayer, Print.

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In 1969, an album of Ray Gay's mic was released entled, "Polka-Re, Polka-Ra.

" Numero sgl followed and aga 1970, another album was released on Ray's Normandy Rerds label, entled, "The Vadnals and Ray Gay's Mic. Ray Gay has also wrten a piano ncerto and is also available for rerdg. Another tune on the album "Mama Don't Dance, Papa Don't Dance, But I Do" mic and lyrics by Ray Gay, is heard almost weekly on WKYC-Channel 3 on the program "Today Cleveland" at 6:30 a.

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Other songs played by WKYC are: Dial A Polka 911, Ooh La La My Cajun Queen, and an stmental Ray Gay tune, The Freeway Polka. Ray Gay, ASCAP.

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Ray Gay Publishg, ASCAP. Marv Gaye, byname of Marv Pentz Gay, Jr., (born April 2, 1939, Washgton, D. Gaye sang his father’s Evangelil church Washgton, D.

When doo-wop dissipated the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua’s lsons close harmony. After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds.

Gaye, who also played dms and piano, bucked the Motown system and s emphasis on teen hs. Gaye also enjoyed a seri of succsful duets, most notably wh Tammi Terrell (“A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg” [1968]). Blsed wh an exceptnally wi range that enpassed three distct vol styl—a piercg falsetto, a smooth mid-range tenor, and a ep gospel growl—Gaye bed great technil prows wh rare mil dividualy.

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Gaye also displayed dazzlg virtuosy by overdubbg (buildg sound track by track onto a sgle tape) his own voice three or four tim to provi his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rt of his reer. ”Other major artists—most importantly Stevie Wonr—followed Gaye’s lead and acted as producer of their own efforts. In 1972 Gaye wrote the soundtrack for the film Trouble Man, wh lyrics that mirrored his own sense of secury.

Let’s Get It On, released 1973, displayed Gaye’s sensuo si. Here, My Dear (1979) brilliantly alt wh Gaye’s divorce om Gordy’s sister Anna (the first of the sger’s two tumultuo divorc)’s growg addictn to e exacerbated his psychologil stggl. On April 1, 1984, durg a fay dispute, Gaye iated a vlent fight wh his father, who shot him to ath.

Gaye, who ced his chief fluenc as Ray Charl, Cly McPhatter, Rudy Wt (lead sger for the doo-wop group the Five Keys), and Ltle Willie John, was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987. He received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement an artist who employed urban soul mic to exprs social and personal ncerns, as well as a sger of exquise sensivy and romantic grace, Gaye left a legacy that has wined sce his mise, and his mic has bee a permanent fixture Amerin pop. In the 1920s and early ’30s, Prohibn’s end gave way to the “Pansy Craze”: baret drag performanc that brought gay nightlife to the mass and rried their athetics to mastream mil theater.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

In the mid-’30s, at the edge of the Great Deprsn, moral backlash—sometim disguised as enomic nservatism but ually explic s bigotry—shut down many of the clubs and formally crimalized gay sex at a sle that had never before been seen. Jazz n’t be imaged whout the ntributns of giants like Billy Strayhorn (of De Ellgton’s band), who was openly gay, and, later, Cecil Taylor, who found that three-letter word was too limg.

The ’70s brought glam and dis, genr play, and explicly queer nightlife back to the mastream; we n’t fet that ’s great gay pop in, Elton John, and s great bisexual on, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. Lang, the Indigo Girls), all the way to today, a moment that young pop star Hayley Kiyoko teasgly refers to as “#20gayteen. Their first gay kiss was junr high, wh someone wearg a matchg flannel, while listeng to Peter Murphy's "Deep" on shared Sport Walkman headphon.

The Vadnals and Ray Gay's Mic - Richie Vadnal & His Orchtra. My Love's Concerto Remisce (A Collectn of Ray Gay Waltz) - Jens Bohlz. Here, we take a look at 35 famo gay sgers who have graced wh their mic: 1.

While he kept much of his personal life private, Mercury has been an in for the gay muny for s, though he sadly died om HIV/AIDS 1991.

Halford me out as gay an MTV terview 1998, llg a “wonrful day for me. ” Halford’s epic vols have shaped and spired untls heavy metal acts to follow, makg him one of the most fluential gay sgers of all time. Next: The bt gay songs for the LGBTQ muny 4.

His send album, Trpassg, ma him the first openly gay sger to have an album reach number one on the Billboard 200 charts.

Bass me out 2006 as gay a People magaze ver story and ntu to play mic and act on televisn and movi. The “Kg of Lat Pop, ” Ricky Mart me out as gay 2010. In a 2012 open letter, Ocean opened up about his homosexualy.

She has been open about her homosexualy sce 2002. Next: Ultimate list of the bt gay rappers of all time 28. He has been open about beg gay sce he me out publicly a YouTube vio 2013.

Wawright has been open about his homosexualy sce his teenage years. Tennant publicly me out as gay a 1994 terview wh Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu.

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