A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- 's also about the artists who weren't aaid to be themselv eras when dog so….

Late his life, Esquera sometim performed gay clubs unr the name Fabulash before dyg om AIDS-related 1986 at the age of 51. But 1973, a sger and actor named Bce Wayne Campbell beme what is believed to be the first openly gay rock mician signed to a major label when he buted as the outrageoly flashy Jobriath. Remarkably, another out gay man, Gary Floyd, also onted another of At’s first-rank punk bands, the Dicks, who would go on to be vered by the lik of The Butthole Surfers, J Lizard and Mudhoney.

In Febary of that year, the Risg Free EP by the Tom Robson Band, featurg the song “Glad to Be Gay, ” cracked the top 20 of the U. ” Durg the first half of the 1980s, many artists found mercial succs wh songs and vios that openly picted or referenced queer life, particularly gay nightlife — as seen work of Frankie Go to Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, Soft Cell and others.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Ptr Ilyich TchaikovskyWhile historians Rsia nied for centuri that Tchaikovsky was gay, Eastern voic recent years have e around to the notn the tenrns the poser's mic me om gay sir.

Even Rsian Print Vladimir Put, famo for enforcg antigay laws, today acknowledg Tchaikovsky's leangs.

Jean-Baptiste LullyThe liberte Lully was a poser, mician, and famed dancer the urt of France's Kg Louis XIV, where his gay sexualy was an open secret. At one pot, he had a well-known affair wh royal mic page B, acrdg to Gee Haggerty's Encyclopedia of Gay Histori and Cultur, but the boy was imprisoned when the poser fell out of favor wh the kg.

DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC

Freric ChopThe legendary 19th-century Polish poser wrote love letters to Tyt Wojciechowski that revealed his persuasn, acrdg to historian Michel Lariviere, and there is evince he had male lovers before that as well, cludg the openly and famoly gay Marquis Cte. Franz SchubertWhile Schubert as a young man was fely known as a womanizer, he likely was bisexual, later livg many years wh gay poet Johann Mayrhofer. Francis Jean Marcel PoulencAn out poser early-20th-century France, Poulenc created mic opposg the homophobic Nazis durg the 1940s, acrdg to Daisy Falurt's L Six.

And acrdg to bgrapher Howard Pollack, he was also nfint his homosexualy om an early age, even though he showed ltle clatn to e out publicly. While not known for tolerance himself, Thomson was arrted 1942 durg a raid on a gay borllo near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, acrdg to bgrapher Anthony Tommasi.

He was also out, hangg New York's gay cultural circl, at one pot sharg a brownstone wh other famed gay artists, Brten and W. Sexism, homophobia, racism: The folks clud this brief history have uniformly faced one or more of the obstacl along the way. 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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE

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.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

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.

Dis was heavily fluenced by and played gay clubs, and though Sylvter and alli like Donna Summer are more often namechecked, lbian-intified Nona Hendryx of LaBelle (“Lady Marmala”) and Alicia Bridg, whose h “I Love the Nightlife” went to No. As their name implied (a group that subverts om wh), Fifth Column took on both the straight punk scene and gay mastream and spired other queerre acts like Team Drch, Tribe 8, and The Butchi, as well as settg the stage for Rt grrrl the 90s. The 90s were also a notable for gay women mic, wh reverberatns of Madonna’s sexual fluidy, Cyndi Lper’s dividualy, and Queen Latifah’s royal claratns of pennce creatg space for more voic om different kds of bodi.

Lang and Melissa Etheridge won cril acclaim and climbed the Billboard charts while purposefully g out as gay. Although the artists were subject to cel jok and send-ups at tim, their beg out public simultaneoly gave lbians more visibily at a ccial time for polil activist groups like the Lbian Avengers who, feelg left behd by straight femists and gay men, sought safety and rpect as both women and queers.