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Contents:
- LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
- 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- FAMO BLACK GAY SGERS
LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
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35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
14, 2019An earlier versn of this article rrectly stated that Lil Nas X was the first openly gay artist to w a CMA Award. He is the first openly gay black artist to do so. Country sgers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both of whom are whe and openly gay, shared the 2014 song of the year CMA Award wh Kacey Mgrav for “Follow Your Arrow.
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Beyond h-makg, their talent brgs awarens to LGBTQ+ ncerns and helps strip dtry shareholrs’ of archaic homophobic bias.
FAMO BLACK GAY SGERS
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It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, her 2020 sophomore LP, beme her hight mastream cred to date bi the entreprenr’s TSNMI imprt. The artist is creded for popularizg the clive mil movement, and the Queen Diva herself acknowledg beg gay and genr fluid. Simultaneoly, some leadg tracks received cricism om anizatns, cludg the Gay And Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, for the rapper’s lyril exprsn — later disverg Tyler was a member of the LGBTQ+ muny.
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