To celebrate Pri Month, we are lookg back at when Bob Dylan changed the pronouns on a classic song to celebrate gay love.
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PRI MONTH: BOB DYLAN SGS ABOUT GAY LOVE
The bard of the ’60s wasn’t gay, but his art ma a huge difference for those who were. * dylan gayson *
The bard of the ’60s wasn’t gay, but his art ma a huge difference for those who were. To be clear, I’m not suggtg that Dylan is gay. ” That, of urse, was an homage to that foundg rocker’s mic, not the gay part of himself that Ltle Richard eventually acknowledged.
But after those artists, the gay French poet Rimbd was one of Dylan’s biggt fluencers. But Allen Gsberg, the gay one, was the only one who beme a close iend and equent llaborator. And jt ne days before Gsberg’s fateful first meetg wh Dylan, a ont-page headle the New York Tim blared, “Growth of Overt Homosexualy Cy Provok Wi Concern.
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And every nascent gay boy like me certaly noticed that The Spokman for our generatn was a very public iend of one of the only openly gay men Ameri. Although most of wouldn’t know about the nversatn until was published two s later Robert Shelton’s Dylan bgraphy, as early as 1966 Dylan was enunciatg a philosophy that would have matched the ias of the Gay Liberatn Front, a post-Stonewall radil anizatn that wasn’t even born yet.