The mician reflects on her groundbreakg song “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover,” the “gay mafia of the ‘90s,” and fg herself on her own terms.
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40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
* gay female singer in the 90s *
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“If any of you any way hate homosexuals, people of different lour, or women, please do this one favour for —leave the fuck alone!
Sexism, homophobia, racism: The folks clud this brief history have uniformly faced one or more of the obstacl along the way.
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! * gay female singer in the 90s *
Bgraphers say Sister Tharpe was known to have a relatnship wh at least one other woman while she toured, wh the road makg easier for many women to live more openly whout fear of homophobic retributn.
Genr policg and segregatn worsened after the Send World War, and so the “act” of homosexualy was one that queer and genr-nonnformg women micians navigated refully om the late 40s and well to the 50s and 60s. Combed wh the ia of Free Love and gay liberatn, the women’s movement spawned an entire women’s mic movement that aligned wh the nfsnal folk mic of the era but were separate their separatism – that is, they wrote songs explicly for and about women, and many of them were lbian nature. Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Maxe Feldman, and Phranc are jt a few notable sger-songwrers who performed for their muny si church, ffee ho, gay bars, and at all-women mic ftivals, where activism and muny were as much of a foc as the mic self.
This mil momentum around new sounds and new ias me to a head the 70s wh all-girl bands like Fanny, led by openly gay June Millgton, and The Runaways, led by the inic guarist-turned-ontwoman Joan Jett. Grace Jon and Annie Lennox would also participate this drag-que display, nontg notns of tradnal femy the mastream while homophobia kept openly lbian micians segregated to their own circu.