Pop Mic Could Use Another De as 'Gay' as the '80s | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• LGBTQ+ BANDS: OUR TOP 10 FAVORE GAY BANDS
• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S

LGBTQ+ BANDS: OUR TOP 10 FAVORE GAY BANDS

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. In fact, some of the greatt micians to date were and are openly gay, and their mic stands the tt of time no ls. Pri is a time to regnize the achievements of LGBTQ micians and gay bands as well as the stggl they face whilst exprsg themselv to the world.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

Takg a polil stance, their songs often ver issu ncerng the gay muny like their song ‘Want Us Dead’, referrg to the treatment of gay people society. Rob Halford, closeted at the time, was spired by the leather and chas of kk clothg and unrground fashn that he found gay clubs and Brish Vogue.

Wh 4 out of 5 of the origal members intifyg as LGBTQ+, ’s safe to say the B-52s were a gay band spe that not beg their goal. In 2019 they released their eighth and most recent stud album ‘sgl and Such’ followg multiple releas sce 2010 and they’re more referenced, ‘That’s So Gay 2009.

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

The sgl and the album ntas songs like ‘F**k Buddy’ and ‘Bill and Ted’s Homosexual Adventure’ stayg wh the gay mic bands theme.

Known as one of the first wav of gay punk bands the 70s, Wayne And The Electric Chairs beme a well-known name the mic world workg closely wh the lik of the Backstreet Boys. And whether he’s kept a low profile sce then bee he’s livg his life or bee ’s hard for an pennt mician to get tractn this world, he’s still the pg ballaer wh which a young gay man might fall love. Yet back the ’70s was slim pickgs for openly gay artists, and we all knew how to read an artist that ma a joke about beg “bi-astal” (he even named an album that) while throwg himself across the stage like a hyperactive chore on a Broadway belter like “I Go to R.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

The late blu sger was well-nnected and openly gay the ’60s — he had a brief relatnship wh Dave Davi of The Kks. They’ve taken on gay social media apps (“Personal” om 2006 and “Lookg” om 2019”) and love to ms around wh gay clichés (“But I’m a Top”).

POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S

Currently on her mea culpa tour (for, amongst other thgs, supportg Tmp) and tryg to get the foc back on her mic, this mouthy bisexual MC threw away a lot of goodwill by turng her reer to a spectacle of wrong-footedns — her e of slurs agast gay men has been wily reported. Somewhat lost to history, Bean found the clive Uny Fellowship Church Movement and was rponsible for the early gay lib anthem “I Was Born This Way.

Known for a quick w and sharp tongue, Belli followed up an unexpectedly short stt on Season 4 of RuPl’s Drag Race wh hilar mic parodi of pop hs that mocked Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay polics (“Chow Down (at Chick-fil-A)”), praised well-endowed men (“Love You Like a Big Schlong”) and skewered secret bedroom submissiv (“That Boy is a Bottom”). Wh three albums and some EP’s beneath him, he’s ripe for disvery by the ward lookg and sensive gay boys who flock to, let’s say, Baths and Chris Garne. Or, at least, a cult act, whose unflchg honty and betiful tenor uld soundtrack the wet dreams of many buddg young gay boys lookg for a “Half-Boyiend” or a breathtakg partner to leave you bereft (“Rob Me Bld”).

Diagnosed 1982, when the nascent plex was still lled “gay-related immune ficiency, ” Callen was — sence — a first rponr. Yet between his activism, thorship (How to Have Sex an Epimic: One Approach), journalism, and actg (Philalphia, Zero Patience), he found and sang wh the gay apella group The Flirtatns (“Everythg Possible”) and released one solo album, Purple Heart (“Talkg Old Soldiers”), while he was alive.