We have listed 30 sgers you may not have known were lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer. How many have you heard of?
Contents:
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
- 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
Lookg for a list of the bt gay sgers and gay micians of all time? We've round up our top picks along wh their bt songs! * singers who are gay icons *
The song spent 19 weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 – meanwhile, Lil Nas X me out as gay, which ma him the first artist to do so while beg on the top of the chart.
Birthday: 25 June 1963 Born In: East Fchley, London, England Died On: 25 December 2016 Throughout his reer, Gee Michael won numero prtig awards, beg one of the most rated gay micians of all time.
THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
* singers who are gay icons *
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.
35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
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.
WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
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.