50 Bt Gay Songs: LGBTQ+ Songs To Celebrate Pri All Year

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• RYM ULTIMATE BOX SET > 80'S GAY SYNTHPOP

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn. His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

As the earlit show of queer solidary om a proment metal mician, Halford’s admissn proved val rhapg the public perceptn of heavy metal, repostg an earspltg, heteronormative boys’ club as a safe space where headbangers of all typ uld be themselv, sheltered the flailg arms of not jt a benevolent (and openly gay) God, but the scene wr large. ” The fact that he did all while beg pletely open about his sexualy – llg himself “rock’s tt fairy” – is astoundg and, for a brief, shg moment 1974, Jobriath beme the most visible gay man popular mic.

While the “Queen of Dis” is a tle most monly btowed upon Donna Summer, also appli to Sylvter, who was a fixture of the dis scene and an in of the gay liberatn movement that spawned out of San Francis.

It wasn’t until after hostg var episos of the show for a uple years – which all centered on LGBT issu – that she spoke openly about her partner of over two s and the stggl of beg gay the mic dtry. “I thk the rerd dtry – by and large what’s left of – is still totally homophobic, ” she said, notg that she me out her twenti and never went to “lengths” to nceal . Brish punk rocker Tom Robson achieved chart succs wh h songs “2-4-6-8 Motorway”, “Up Agast the Wall” and “Don’t Take No for an Answer, ” but he’ll always be immortalized for his sgalong prott anthem, “Glad to be Gay.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

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. 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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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. 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.

The Stonewall rts were a seri of spontaneo, vlent monstratns by members of the gay (LGBT) muny agast a police raid that began the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York Cy. Even more notable was her play, World – Birth of A Natn, which was set a hospal and alt wh male stratn –– evokg both transgenr surgery and her mixed feelgs about men, both gay and straight. Charl Piece 1926-1999 was what might be lled a female impersonator (he lled himself a Male Actrs) who found favor wh dienc both straight and gay wh his knowg imprsns of Bette Davis, Mae Wt, Tallulah Bankhead and Carol Channg, Such impersonatns were que tradnal for a ic performer of this sort.

RYM ULTIMATE BOX SET > 80'S GAY SYNTHPOP

(1947-1988) was born Los Angel, but first me to public attentn when he moved to San Francis and joed the legendary gay hippie performance troupe The Cockett.

Steve Grossman (1951-1991) a gay sger-songwrer of the early 1970s whose album Caravan Tonight (1974) is distguished as beg the first album alg wh openly gay subject matter released by a major rerd label, Mercury Rerds. He died om AIDS leavg his Joni Mchell-flected songs, rerd much the style of sger-songwrer Cat Stevens, opposed to the then-current glam Bowique fashn of openly gay artists. His books clu Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-2000, The Srse Picture: The Art and Life of Mart Srse and Cahiers du Cema — Masters of Cema: Roman Polanski.