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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.

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.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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 .

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

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.

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

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.

RYM ULTIMATE BOX SET > 80'S GAY SYNTHPOP

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.