Brian Gay Sr & Highlights | 2023Masters

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• BRIAN GAY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• LGBTQ COUNTRY MICIAN BRIAN FALDUTO TO RELEASE BUT ALBUM "GAY COUNTRY"
• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
• BRIAN FALDUTO TALKS MOVG BEYOND 'SCHOOL OF ROCK' FAME AND MAKG UNABASHEDLY 'GAY COUNTRY' MIC
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE CELEBRI, HOT COUNTRY SGERSGAY MALE COUNTRY SGERS: EIGHT OUT AND PROUD COUNTRY STARS
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

BRIAN GAY

Sger, through his lawyer, told Vox the story is a “homophobic smear piece [that] has been nveniently timed to take advantage of [Bohemian Rhapsody’s] succs” and that was wrten by “a homophobic journalist who has a bizarre obssn wh me datg back to 1997. The last time I posted about this subject, Esquire magaze was preparg to publish an article wrten by a homophobic journalist who has a bizarre obssn wh me datg back to 1997.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

And is no surprise that, wh Bohemian Rhapsody beg an award-wng h, this homophobic smear piece has been nveniently timed to take advantage of s succs. Glenn is the lone gay one of the four-member band.

' [ The band] beme aware [ that I was gay] about three or four months to [ my time wh the band], the fall of 2002, and hasn't been a signifint enough of a problem for anyone to be replaced, ' Glenn said proudly. 'When I cid that I wanted Marty to know that [ I was gay], I certaly was apprehensive and prepared for the worst. Glenn actually was the band when an article about gay people untry mic me out; Glenn was mentned the article.

So is there a gay muny wh the untry mic scene?

LGBTQ COUNTRY MICIAN BRIAN FALDUTO TO RELEASE BUT ALBUM "GAY COUNTRY"

But gay people are everywhere, ' Glenn said. 'Sure there are gay people out there workg untry mic, numero posns, but to what pacy and how many, I don't know.

On March 10, Falduto releas his but album Gay Country—an 8-track LP where Falduto honors the classic 90s/early 2000s sounds of untry mic that’s long been missg. Co-wrten by Falduto and rerd Nashville, Gay Country is an anthemic, playful and heartfelt album that further cements Falduto as a queer untry artist that serv your attentn. Gay Country featur the viral lead sgle "Same Old Country Love Song" which received TikTok love om School of Rock -star Jack Black (1.

I hope ‘Gay Country’ provis some joy, some lghter, and some sense of belongg to those who need most. ” Brian tablished himself as a passnate sger-songwrer and rerdg artist 2020 wh the release of “God Lov Me Too, ” a song and mic vio offerg the love and acceptance to queer youth of fah that he never felt he got when he was growg up gay church. I knew that I would never ny beg gay for the sake of beg a succsful untry mic artist but I simultaneoly felt as though I had to be reful how I prented myself.

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

I hope ‘Gay Country’ n offer a space for fellow queer untry fans to nnect wh themselv.. I’m a 27-year-old gay man livg Wt Hollywood, California who works the entertament dtry. When I say nearly everyone the gay scene of Wt Hollywood told me this upon my move to Los Angel, I’m not exaggeratg.

Is bee Sger’s accers are maly gay? Bryan Sger rorts to false homophobic slurs his rponse – bee he has absolutely no fense for his crim upon children Hollywood. Sger is claimg the latt exposé on him is nothg but homophobia.

“The last time I posted about this subject, Esquire magaze was preparg to publish an article wrten by a homophobic journalist who has a bizarre obssn wh me datg back to 1997. The Atlantic story wrongfully ed ‘homophobia’ to flect om sexual asslt allegatns and GLAAD urg the media and the dtry at large to not gloss over the fact that survivors of sexual asslt should be put first, We are the midst of a cultural reckong.

BRIAN FALDUTO TALKS MOVG BEYOND 'SCHOOL OF ROCK' FAME AND MAKG UNABASHEDLY 'GAY COUNTRY' MIC

As a young, gay man enterg this Hollywood world, we are warned about Sger and his iends. They go after the young gays who aspire to be the dtry. Hell, some of bee so twisted as to what “Gay Hollywood" is that we actually want to have a seat at Sger’s table simply bee most believe there is no other way bis layg on your back.

Sger and his crew are sgle handily g the liv of creative, aspirg gay artists and leavg them for dirt.

Thankfully I am a part of the era when all of, but pecially gay, Hollywood is changg. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the on who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized marg, gay terwoven muny clud Brian Epste (who brought the world the Beatl), K Lambert (who -managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Ge), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smh (who formed the visnary label Charisma for bands like Genis).

FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE CELEBRI, HOT COUNTRY SGERSGAY MALE COUNTRY SGERS: EIGHT OUT AND PROUD COUNTRY STARS

In fact, was a gay man, Larry Parn, who svengali-d Bra’s very first rockers, om Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wil. A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood.

”At the same time, the rich, powerful and fluential men faced the nsirable nsequenc of beg gay at a time when homosexual acts were still outlawed the UK.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle. ”Bullock’s book don’t lve to the eper cultural and psychologil issu volved the relatnships between the gay and straight men.