Dis and Gay Culture the 1970s

Contents:

• LOS 10 DISS GAY QUE NECA TU DISGRAFíA
• 17 NCN QUE SEGURO BAILARáS EN UNA DIS GAY
• EL TALLER, LA DIS GAY QUE RENDíA CULTO A LO MASCULO Y A LA MúSI TECHNO
• DISCO ?️‍? CHAT & NAMORO GAY – PAQUERE GAYS
• THE GAY DIS
• QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
• MúSI GAY: 15 DISS PARA CELEBRAR Y MARCHAR N ULLO
• BAR Y DISS GAY EN LA HABANA

LOS 10 DISS GAY QUE NECA TU DISGRAFíA

In turn, this gave global visibily to LGBTQI rights and the Gay Liberatn ont.

Organisatns such as Commtee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF) and Vanguard formed San Fransis. What followed was a strg of legal and illegal gay dis clubs across the USA. The Stonewall Inn NYC was a precursor to the clubs, and was the se of a key event that shaped the future for LGBTQI rights and gay liberatn.

However, tensns lated as the police threw some homophobic sults and ma some arrts. Many members of the prott were part of the re formatn of the Gay Liberatn ont, creatg the world’s first gay muny centre.

17 NCN QUE SEGURO BAILARáS EN UNA DIS GAY

Followg the Stonewall rts, society was still predomantly homophobic.

EL TALLER, LA DIS GAY QUE RENDíA CULTO A LO MASCULO Y A LA MúSI TECHNO

Lbians and gay men started to be elected to public offic and civil rights protectns for gay people were adopted many ci. Some printial ndidat were more vol about supportg gay rights, and lol gay muny centr received feral grants. This was aid by the groups like the Natnal Gay Task Force, who hired profsnal lobbyists to fluence media verage and legislatn regardg gay people and their rights.

DISCO ?️‍? CHAT & NAMORO GAY – PAQUERE GAYS

This forward approach was one of the key reasons that queer dividuals were enuraged to be seen and heard by society – image-nscns, acmodatn, and assiatn beme pillars of the Gay Liberatn movement.

It was about gay rights beg human rights, a normaly that should be privileged to any cizen. As dis beme more mastream, clubs terg for heterosexual people also began to pop up across the US, which further fluenced youth culture and the growg populary of gay clubs. The llaboratns wh Sylvter provid a platform of mil stat that Cowley ed when releasg his own dis hs 1981 such as ‘Menergy’, a distct celebratn of the gay club scene, and ‘Megatron Man’, which h #1 and #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Mic/Club Play chart 1981.

THE GAY DIS

The 1970s was an excg and challengg time for LGBTQI liberatn, and dis clubs planted the seeds for strength, visibily and solidary the face of homophobia. In recent years, we’ve seen micians talk openly about their gay inty and same-sex relatnships.

Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn. His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview. As the earlit show of queer solidary om a proment metal mician, Halford’s admissn proved val rhapg the public perceptn of heavy metal, repostg an earspltg, heteronormative boys’ club as a safe space where headbangers of all typ uld be themselv, sheltered the flailg arms of not jt a benevolent (and openly gay) God, but the scene wr large.

” The fact that he did all while beg pletely open about his sexualy – llg himself “rock’s tt fairy” – is astoundg and, for a brief, shg moment 1974, Jobriath beme the most visible gay man popular mic. While the “Queen of Dis” is a tle most monly btowed upon Donna Summer, also appli to Sylvter, who was a fixture of the dis scene and an in of the gay liberatn movement that spawned out of San Francis. The tle track even clus the lyric: “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay.

QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA

It wasn’t until after hostg var episos of the show for a uple years – which all centered on LGBT issu – that she spoke openly about her partner of over two s and the stggl of beg gay the mic dtry. “I thk the rerd dtry – by and large what’s left of – is still totally homophobic, ” she said, notg that she me out her twenti and never went to “lengths” to nceal . Brish punk rocker Tom Robson achieved chart succs wh h songs “2-4-6-8 Motorway”, “Up Agast the Wall” and “Don’t Take No for an Answer, ” but he’ll always be immortalized for his sgalong prott anthem, “Glad to be Gay.

” Origally wrten for a 1976 London gay pri march, the song was nearly banned by the BBC 1978 – although DJ John Peel fied the stricture.

Swappg out punk moralist clichés for LGBT issu, the them unrlg the group’s mic give voice to both fury and hope for gay punks.

MúSI GAY: 15 DISS PARA CELEBRAR Y MARCHAR N ULLO

“Straight people were clumsy and had no rhythm, whereas gay men were right on. Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D.

BAR Y DISS GAY EN LA HABANA

-led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972. Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee. “I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay, ” the sger hollers over soulful stmentatn.