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COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

This is our list of the bt gay sgers of all time. If you're LGBTQ+ and lookg for a list of songs, then look no further than here. * gay singer country *

Clark has been at the foreont of that shift and creds her iendship wh Shane McAnally — one of Nashville’s most succsful songwrers, who is also gay — wh givg her the nfince to pursue a solo reer. “Though a lot of people that work the dtry support me om a distance, there’s a difference between that and actually takg some steps to ph that further and sign some [gay artists], ” Homan says. After the wife of untry sger Jason Alan ma an ignorant post thankg her parents for not "forcg her" to be trans when she was a tomboy, other sgers, like Maren Morris, clapped back, sayg there's no room for homophobia and transphobia untry mic and that those clgg onto need to change or get out of the way.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

Country mic has a lengthy reputatn for beg tensely homophobic. Gay untry sgers were, sadly, not warmly weled. Still, some stood out loud and proud. * gay singer country *

It is, perhaps, the bt fence of twk Rh is merely a chaser to that other tentpole of gay Atraliana: Kylie Mogue, whose sgle Padam Padam skyrocketed to the top 10 of the UK charts last month and has (mostly) stayed there sce.

How lucky we are to be livg through the entire spectm of queer all, evably, serv as a precursor to Sydney WorldPri – that 17-day party earlier this year rponsible for the stctn of every gay person’s sleepg habs.

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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 singer country *

Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step. Gay St., will have a variety of typil nvenience store ems that clu:BeerChips and snacksCigarettCoffeeIce creamLottery ticketsSodaAn ATM also will be loted si, and Patel said ems will be available through third-party livery servic.

From gay untry stars sgg os about lovg who you want to untry artists enuragg listeners not to be aaid to embrace their genr inty, the genre – both s artists and s fans – has fally reached a place where acceptance is the new standard. While he went through some hardships, like feelg very isolated his early days Nashville, he found the right moment to publicly e out as gay as the band’s reer picked up – and his announcement went off really well.

1 Country Airplay hs the 1990s, cludg “What Matters Most” and “Livg a Moment.” That same year, Billy Gilman (who found succs untry mic as a child wh songs cludg “One Voice”) also me out publicly as gay. Brothers Osborne’s TJ Osborne me out as gay an terview wh TIME 2021, and soon, the siblg duo released this song, crafted as a song to TJ’s younger self, filled wh enuragement and wisdom.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Here are a few of our favore gay male untry mic sgers that you need to check out! You won't be disappoted. * gay singer country *

He views Lavenr Country as a “revolutnary obligatn” he’s bound to, now that he’s fally got a platform and a willg dience for his songs about racism, homophobia and the fltl Amerin society. She has, ’s claimed, an equally strong fanbase the Tmpian “Rt Belt” as among the gay clubbers of New York Cy, to pick two of Ameri’s polarised London vis to promote a new rock-fluenced double album and a book is provg jt how broad that Parton cultural spectm is.

In se you missed the news om last year, the Brothers Osborne ontman me out as gay, sayg his fay and close iends have known for que some time, but he wants to be his full self at this pot his reer. Canadian untry sger Drake Jensen married partner Michael Mor 2008 and publicly me out as gay four years later by releasg a mic vio for the sgle, On My Way to Fdg You, which featured his hband.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

The sger has the polil talent to take stands – on gay rights, or child leracy – whout losg her nservative heartland fans * gay singer country *

Drake dited the song to a gay Ottawa teen, Jamie Hubley, who mted suici bee of about his sexualy (via Towleroad): “As a child I always knew there was somethg different about me above and beyond the gay thg. Next our list of gay male untry sgers is Brian Glenn who performed wh big untry stars such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Patty Lovels, and his favore of them all Dolly says of his experience sgg wh Dolly (via the Wdy Cy Tim): “It will be one of the greatt moments mic to date for me—backg up Dolly Parton.

40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Gay male untry sgers list: Hot, out and proud gay men untry mic now and then: TJ Osborne, Steve Grant, Drake Jensen, Mark Weigle, Josey Greenwell * gay singer country *

The Stranger tells more about Lavenr untry: “Lavenr Country—wh the origal lp of lead sger and guarist Patrick Haggerty, keyboardist Michael Carr, volist and fiddle-player Eve Morris, and lead guarist Robert Hammerstrom — formed Seattle 1972, and their self-tled 1973 album is regnized as the first gay-themed untry album ever.

GAY MALE COUNTRY MIC SGERS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Gay untry sgers are takg Nashville by storm, rvg out a space for LGBT love the rich history of the genre. * gay singer country *

The album’s 10 songs are sweet, funny, liltgly lo-fi, and—wh lyrics like ‘There’s k and honey flow’ when you’re blow’ Gabriel’s horn’ and a song straight-up lled ‘Cry’ The C*cks*ckg Tears’—super gay by any era’s standards. And change is already the makg-- 2014, for example, Kacey Mgrav beme the first gay untry sger to take home the CMA Song of the Year award, for "Follow Your Arrow, " wrten by two LGBT songwrers.

He performed the songs he’d wrten more than 40 years earlier wh new gay untry stars like Orville Peck and Trixie Mattel, who’ve both found nsirable succs for tegratg their inti to their acts. In 1970, jt one year after the Stonewall rts, Haggerty moved to Seattle, Washgton, where he beme volved wh the Gay Communy Social Servic of Seattle, one of Ameri's first such anisatns for the queer muny.

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

“Lavenr Country,” Patrick Haggerty’s first album rerd unr the same name, is wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay mician. He died Monday, several weeks after havg a stroke. * gay singer country *

The stereotype of the flannel shirt-sportg, beard, long hair topped wh a tcker p, untry-mic lovg ‘hick’ has now bee emblematic of backward, and homophobic, thkg – as seen for example, Taylor Swift’s You Need to Calm Down mic vio which whe workg-class people are shown prottg agast gay rights. “Then the ‘70s when social polics took such a big turn wh the women’s rights movement, the gay rights movement, the civil rights movement,  wasn’t ol for middle-class people to be tolerant.

"While there are many other openly gay artists and songwrers currently workg untry mic, cludg Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Brooke En, Shane McAnally and Lily Rose, Osborne is one of the most proment.

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T.J. Osborne, who publicly shared for the first time Febary that he is gay, kissed boyiend Abi Ventura after his CMA Awards w was announced. * gay singer country *

”Yet Peck views the crossover succs of Lil Nas X — a gay black teenager who nnected wh a historilly broad dience almost entirely whout the help of the Nashville power stcture — as proof that untry listeners are more receptive to change than many sirs likely prume. While not tradnally thought of as LGBT-iendly, the untry mic scene has bee much more clive recent years—as sgers like Billy Gilman, Ty Herndon and Brandy Clark have all e host Cody Alan also revealed he was gay jt last month, and was met wh overwhelmg to settg an example for fans, alli are jt as important as out stars themselv, and there are plenty the muny who are supportive. In 2007, when the Chicks were on hiat, sisters Martie Maguire and Ey Robson rerd “A’t No Son, ” about a young man rejected by his father for beg recently, the tr took a stand agast North Carola's HB2: While many performers ncelled their North Carola ncerts prott, the tr gave out hats that read "No Hate My State" to dience members and teamed up wh HRC to te people about LGBT PartonDolly has been a champn of LGBT rights, not to mentn a gay in, for most of her reer.

"I fely thk we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love, " she told The Inpennt how she balanced her relig beliefs wh her pro-LGBT views, Unrwood proudly clared that her church is gay-iendly.

PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78

Gay die untry sger Orville Peck wears a mask and won't give his real name. "What I do is no different than Dolly Parton," he says, but the emotnal tth his songs ns ep. * gay singer country *

The days, wh more and more public figur g forward about their sexualy, was only a matter of time that we here at put together a list of the most fluential and trigug openly gay and bisexual male micians of the past century. Compilg a list like this was no small we’ve limed this to only 50 micians, the number of openly gay artists far surpass that number, and we’re sure you will likely spot an artist near and ar to your heart that we left out. We simply tried to assemble a list of those artists we feel have been both succsful their reers while also raisg awarens toward gay rights issu and givg back to the muny which they also cid to le out those artists whose sexualy was often mored to be gay, but have never been nfirmed by the artists themselv, take Morrissey or Liberace for example.

‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS

"I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. I n’t tell the difference." * gay singer country *

The men have been a posive fluence for GLBT youth around the world, and by their honty they have helped shape the current climate and acceptabily for beg an openly gay male artist today’s mic are artists who risked their reers to be te to their sexualy, and who make proud to be the gay and bi men that we are.

Jay BrannanThe Texas born Brannan has been pared to Ruf Wawright for his openns as a gay artist, and has been pared to Ani DiFran and Joni Mchell for his crafts wh songwrg, posssg the quali of an “angry, sad woman.

Bt known for his gay and bisexual-themed lyrics, as well as his sexual vios which often feature meos by New York-based transsexual in Amanda Lepore, Cazwell’s fluenc range om the Notor B.

SAM WILLIAMS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY INTY FOR THE FIRST TIME: 'IT IS SRY, BUT IT FEELS GOOD'

Morn mic's most trigug gay or bisexual male artists. * gay singer country *

Known mic circl as a “gay synth-pop” group, The Magic Fields nsist of one gay male artist (Merrt), one lbian (Cldia Gonson), one straight female (San Amway, who is no longer wh the group), and two straight mal (Sam Davol and John Woo) bt-known work is their three-volume ncept album 69 Love Songs, voted album of the year by the Village Voice. ’s “Everybody Hurts” for the 2010 Haian Earthquake and July 2010, McElrry posted on his official webse that he is gay and gave an terview to the UK’s Daily Mail which he clared “I’m really happy, I now know who I am….

T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND

Gay rappers, untry sgers, and hip hop artists are refg the role of LGBT mic. Follow Out for all the latt gay mic trends. * gay singer country *

Spooner relish the ia of beg a posive role mol for the gay muny, statg: "If I n be an spiratn to people who are choosg to go down a challengg, nontradnal path--sexually, creatively, however--that is jt great.

12 COUNTRY MIC STARS WHO ARE LGBT ALLI "I’VE KNOWN STRAIGHT AND GAY PEOPLE ALL MY LIFE. I N’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE."BY ADAM SALANDRAFEBARY 2, 2017/8:00 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY ADAM SALANDRAFEBARY 2, 2017 / 8:00 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"12 COUNTRY MIC STARS WHO ARE LGBT ALLI","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-02-02T13:00:14.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-02-02T13:00:14.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ADAM SALANDRA"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE NOT TRADNALLY THOUGHT OF AS LGBT-IENDLY, THE UNTRY MIC SCENE HAS BEE MUCH MORE CLIVE RECENT YEARS—AS SGERS LIKE BILLY GILMAN, TY HERNDON AND BRANDY CLARK HAVE ALL E {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CMT HOST CODY ALAN ALSO REVEALED HE WAS GAY JT LAST MONTH, AND WAS MET WH OVERWHELMG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN TO SETTG AN EXAMPLE FOR FANS, ALLI ARE JT AS IMPORTANT AS OUT STARS THEMSELV, AND THERE ARE PLENTY THE MUNY WHO ARE SUPPORTIVE. BELOW, TUNE TO 12 UNTRY MIC STARS WHO ARE PROVG THE GENRE IS MORE CLIVE THAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WATCH NASHVILLE, THURSDAY NIGHTS AT 9PM ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GARTH BROOKSGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BROOKS WAS AN ALLY LONG BEFORE OTHER UNTRY MICIANS EVEN NSIRED AN OPTN: THE UNTRY STAR WON A GLAAD AWARD BACK 1993 FOR HIS SONG "WE SHALL BE FREE," WHICH HE CROONS ABOUT BEG "EE TO LOVE ANYONE WE CHOOSE." HE ALSO PERFORMED ALONGSI GEE MICHAEL AT AN EQUALY ROCKS NCERT BACK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GRAMMY WNER CREDED HIS LATE SISTER, BETSY SMTLE, WHO WAS A LBIAN, WH SPIRG HIM TO SPEAK OUT FOR EQUALY. "IF YOU'RE LOVE, YOU'VE GOT TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART," HE TOLD GEE MAGAZE 1999. "AND JT TST THAT GOD WILL EXPLA TO WHY WE SOMETIM FALL LOVE WH PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DIXIE CHICKSGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DIXIE CHICKS ARE FAMO FOR STANDG UP FOR THEIR BELIEFS, OM RAISG AWARENS ABOUT DOMTIC ABE TO STANDG OPPOSN TO THE IRAQ WAR. IN 2007, WHEN THE CHICKS WERE ON HIAT, SISTERS MARTIE MAGUIRE AND EY ROBSON RERD “A’T NO SON,” ABOUT A YOUNG MAN REJECTED BY HIS FATHER FOR BEG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MORE RECENTLY, THE TR TOOK A STAND AGAST NORTH CAROLA'S HB2: WHILE MANY PERFORMERS NCELLED THEIR NORTH CAROLA NCERTS PROTT, THE TR GAVE OUT HATS THAT READ "NO HATE MY STATE" TO DIENCE MEMBERS AND TEAMED UP WH HRC TO TE PEOPLE ABOUT LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DOLLY PARTONGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DOLLY HAS BEEN A CHAMPN OF LGBT RIGHTS, NOT TO MENTN A GAY IN, FOR MOST OF HER REER. AND SHE HASN'T BEEN AAID TO LL OUT HER CHRISTIAN MUNY FOR S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THEY KNOW THAT I PLETELY LOVE AND ACCEPT THEM, AS I DO ALL PEOPLE," PARTON SAID ABOUT HER GAY FANS A 2014 BILLBOARD TERVIEW. "I THK EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE WHO THEY ARE, AND TO LOVE WHO THEY LOVE. I DON'T THK WE SHOULD BE JUDGMENTAL. LORD, I'VE GOT ENOUGH PROBLEMS OF MY OWN TO PASS JUDGMENT ON SOMEBODY ELSE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PARTON ALSO FAMOLY ARGUED FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAYG THAT GAY PEOPLE "SHOULD SUFFER JT LIKE HETEROSEXUALS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEEANN RIMGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEEANN RIM FOUGHT BACK TEARS A 2014 TERVIEW WH GLAAD WHEN SHE PRAISED HER IEND AND FELLOW UNTRY STAR TY HERNDON FOR G OUT OF THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I HOPE THAT WE'RE MOVG FORWARD AND NOT BACK," SHE STATED. "I GET REALLY EMOTNAL ABOUT BEE PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LOVE WHO THEY LOVE. IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIE NELSONGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIE HAS BEEN A LONGTIME SUPPORTER OF EQUALY, TELLG TEXAS MONTHLY, "I’VE KNOWN STRAIGHT AND GAY PEOPLE ALL MY LIFE. I N’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE WHERE I ME OM."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2005, HE EVEN NTRIBUTED "COWBOYS ARE FREQUENTLY, SECRETLY FOND OF EACH OTHER" TO THE BROKEBACK MOUNTA SOUNDTRACK. "I HAD ON THE B FOR 20 YEARS, AND PEOPLE WOULD E AND I'D PLAY ," HE EXPLAED. "WHEN BROKEBACK MOUNTA E OUT, JT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD TIME TO KICK OUT OF THE CLOSET."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KACEY MGRAVGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MGRAV IS NOT ONLY A RISG STAR THE UNTRY SCENE, SHE'S THE REIGNG QUEEN OF ALLI, WNG CMA SONG OF THE YEAR 2014 WH "FOLLOW YOUR ARROW," WHICH FEATUR LYRICS LIKE, "MAKE LOTS OF NOISE/ KISS LOTS OF BOYS/ OR KISS LOTS OF GIRLS/ IF THAT'S SOMETHG YOU'RE TO."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHE TWEETED HER SUPPORT AFTER CMT HOST CODY ALAN ME OUT LAST MONTH, SAYG, "YOU'RE PAVG THE WAY FOR OTHERS THE UNTRY MIC MUNY TO BE THEMSELV PROUDLY. COUNTRY MIC WAS BUILT ON REAL SONGS AND REAL PEOPLE TELLG STORI ABOUT REAL LIFE. SO, 'S EXCG TO SEE THE GENRE EMBRACE EXACTLY THAT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WYNONA JUDDGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WYNONA LAND THE VER STORY LADI HOME JOURNAL BACK 2005, AND CHOSE TO DISCS HER WORK FOR YOUTHAIDS, A NONPROF TG YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT HIV. THAT SAME YEAR, SHE TOLD NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS WHO ATTACKED HER FOR PERFORMG ON A GAY CISE THAT SHE WOULD NEVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I’VE HAD THE BIGGT GAY FOLLOWG THE HISTORY OF UNTRY 1980-SOMETHG. I THK ’S JT THE MORE YOU TALK ABOUT LOVE, THE MORE YOU TALK ABOUT GOD, THE BIGGER OF A TARGET YOU ARE. SO, BRG ON.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CARRIE UNRWOODGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE AMERIN IDOL WNER GOT SOME BACKLASH FOR SUPPORTG MARRIAGE EQUALY BEFORE HER PEERS. "I FELY THK WE SHOULD ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO LOVE, AND LOVE PUBLICLY, THE PEOPLE THAT WE WANT TO LOVE," SHE TOLD THE INPENNT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ASKED HOW SHE BALANCED HER RELIG BELIEFS WH HER PRO-LGBT VIEWS, UNRWOOD PROUDLY CLARED THAT HER CHURCH IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"ABOVE ALL, GOD WANTED TO LOVE OTHERS," SHE SAID. "IT'S NOT ABOUT SETTG L, OR [SAYG], 'EVERYONE HAS TO BE LIKE ME.' NO, WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT. THAT'S WHAT MAK SPECIAL. WE HAVE TO LOVE EACH OTHER AND GET ON WH EACH OTHER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TOBY KEHGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST SURPRISG ALLI ON THIS LIST IS NSERVATIVE TOBY KEH. DPE BEG ONE OF FEW ACTS WILLG TO PERFORM AT DONALD TMP'S GURATN, THE “RED SOLO CUP” SGER HAS NO PROBLEM WH MARRIAGE EQUALY OR THE REPEAL OF "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THAT WHOLE GAY ISSUE THG, THAT’S NEVER BOTHERED ME,” HE TOLD CMT 2011. “WE’RE GOG TO STOP SOMEBODY OM GETTG A MARRIAGE LICENSE BEE THEY’RE GAY? YOU WON’T STOP THEM OM LIVG TOGETHER, SO WHAT HAVE YOU ACPLISHED?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CRICIZG POLICIANS FOR SPENDG TIME AND MONEY ON BLOCK EQUALY STEAD OF WORKG ON REAL ISSU, HE ADD, "I NEVER SAW THE REASONG BEHD GETTG PEOPLE’S PERSONAL LIV."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}US NEHER, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REBA MCENTIREGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I’VE ALWAYS HELD THE BELIEF THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT PASS JUDGMENT ON HOW OTHERS WANT TO LIVE THEIR LIV," REBA TOLD NEWNOWNEXT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE UNTRY LEGEND ALSO EXPRSED HER EMPATHY FOR OUT UNTRY SGERS, TELLG PRISOURCE, "IT’S REALLY, REALLY SAD WHAT THEY’RE LIVG WH BEFORE THEY CI TO E OUT... THE PRSURE SOCIETY PUTS UPON THEM, THEIR FAI, AND WHAT THEY PUT UPON THEM, WHETHER THEY ACCEPT OR THEY DON’T.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARTA MCBRIGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2009, MCBRI WAS ASKED IF SHE FEARED BACKLASH OM HER "NSERVATIVE, STRAIGHT, MIDDLE AMERIN" FANS OVER HER SUPPORT OF GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"HONTLY, I JT HAVE TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR ME. WHAT I BELIEVE... THAT I FEEL LIKE TOLERANCE IS VERY IMPORTANT," SHE TOLD OUT. "I HAVE THREE DGHTERS AND THAT'S WHAT I TEACH THEM. I THK WE SHOULD ALL BE TOLERANT OF EACH OTHER AND EMBRACE EACH OTHER'S STRENGTHS AND DIFFERENC AND UNIQUENS AND BETY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RASL FLATTSGETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN RASL FLATTS RELEASED "LOVE WHO YOU LOVE" BACK 2009, THEY WERE SPEAKG DIRECTLY TO THE LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME GAY PEOPLE THAT WORK WH , AND WE HAVE A LOT OF IENDS THAT ARE GAY, TOO, AND I KNOW THAT THIS SONG HAS SPIRED THEM,” LEAD SGER GARY LEVOX TOLD CMT. “I KNOW THAT G OUT WAS TOUGH ON THEIR PARENTS, AND ON THEM, AND THE WHOLE ENTIRE FAY. FOR A LONG TIME, SOME OF THEM DIDN’T GET TO HEAR ‘I LOVE YOU’ OM THEIR DADS OR BE ACCEPTED THAT WAY... IT’S HELPED A LOT OF OUR IENDS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Orville Peck opens up about beg a gay untry artist, his queer fans and wrg his first love song. * gay singer country *

Mould prently tours as a solo artist and much of his wrg material stems om his experience spendg years as a closeted gay man the rock mic scene and the turbulent relatnships of his past.

” While gearg up for his solo but, Okereke fally me out a March 2010 terview wh Butt Magaze, a subject he a had long avoid, statg: "My parents are super-Catholic and they e om a culture Nigeria where there weren’t any visible gay people who were out and were happy. Although he’s been a part of the mic scene sce the 70’s, he didn’t e out until 1998 an MTV terview, which he said, “I thk that most people know that I’ve been a gay man all of my life, and ’s only been recent tim ’s an issue I feel fortable to addrs… and this is the moment to discs .

TOP 50 GAY MALE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAVIS MALLORYFEBARY 7, 2011/10:00 AMBY DAVIS MALLORYFEBARY 7, 2011 / 10:00 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"TOP 50 GAY MALE MICIANS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2011-02-07T15:00:22.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2011-02-07T15:00:22.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAVIS MALLORY","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DAYS, WH MORE AND MORE PUBLIC FIGUR G FORWARD ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY, WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME THAT WE HERE AT PUT TOGETHER A LIST OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL AND TRIGUG OPENLY GAY AND BISEXUAL MALE MICIANS OF THE PAST CENTURY. COMPILG A LIST LIKE THIS WAS NO SMALL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE WE’VE LIMED THIS TO ONLY 50 MICIANS, THE NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY ARTISTS FAR SURPASS THAT NUMBER, AND WE’RE SURE YOU WILL LIKELY SPOT AN ARTIST NEAR AND AR TO YOUR HEART THAT WE LEFT OUT. TST THAT WAS NOT DONE MALICE. WE SIMPLY TRIED TO ASSEMBLE A LIST OF THOSE ARTISTS WE FEEL HAVE BEEN BOTH SUCCSFUL THEIR REERS WHILE ALSO RAISG AWARENS TOWARD GAY RIGHTS ISSU AND GIVG BACK TO THE MUNY WHICH THEY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE ALSO CID TO LE OUT THOSE ARTISTS WHOSE SEXUALY WAS OFTEN MORED TO BE GAY, BUT HAVE NEVER BEEN NFIRMED BY THE ARTISTS THEMSELV, TAKE MORRISSEY OR LIBERACE FOR EXAMPLE. WE ALSO CID TO OM THOSE MICIANS WHO APPEARED TO FLIRT WH BEG BISEXUAL, BUT ULTIMATELY SEEM TO NSIR THEMSELV STRAIGHT, SUCH AS DAVID BOWIE, OR MICIANS WHO HAVE TALKED VAGUE GENERALI ABOUT BISEXUALY BUT AGA ULTIMATELY SEEM CLEARLY HETEROSEXUAL, SUCH AS GREEN DAY ONT MAN BILLIE JOE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO HERE WE ARE WH A LIST HONORG THOSE OUT AND PROUD MEN WHO HAVE PAVED THE WAY FOR MANY OTHERS LIKE THEM AND MANY MORE WHO WILL SURELY E. THE MEN HAVE BEEN A POSIVE FLUENCE FOR GLBT YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD, AND BY THEIR HONTY THEY HAVE HELPED SHAPE THE CURRENT CLIMATE AND ACCEPTABILY FOR BEG AN OPENLY GAY MALE ARTIST TODAY’S MIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ARE ARTISTS WHO RISKED THEIR REERS TO BE TE TO THEIR SEXUALY, AND WHO MAKE PROUD TO BE THE GAY AND BI MEN THAT WE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}50. TIZIANO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ITALIAN POP SGER TIZIANO FERRO GOT HIS START LIKE NUMERO AMERIN IDOL FALISTS THE DAYS BY PARTICIPATG A TALENT SHOW - THE SANREMO MIC FTIVAL 1998. WHILE FERRO DID NOT W THE PETN, HE DID MAKE TO THE 12 FALISTS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY HE UGHT THE ATTENTN OF TWO PRODUCERS THE DIENCE – ALBERTO SALERNO AND MARA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TOGETHER THEY WORKED ON FERRO’S BUT ALBUM ROSSO RELATIVO, RELEASED 2001. FERRO’S SONG “UNIVERSAL PRAYER” WAS ED AT THE 2004 OLYMPIC GAM ATHENS, GREECE, AND HE HAS SCE GONE ON TO SELL OVER 8 LN ALBUMS WORLDWI, PART BEE FERRO IS FLUENT SPANISH AND RELEAS SPANISH VERSNS OF HIS ITALIAN ALBUMS. RECENTLY FERRO MA HEADL WHEN HE CHOSE TO E OUT TO ITALIAN VANY FAIR MAGAZE ON OCTOBER 5, 2010, STATG “I WANT TO FALL LOVE WH A MAN.” FERRO IS OUR MOST RECENTLY OUT GAY MALE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}49. COLTON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BORN GLENN SOIAN, COLTON FORD FIRST ROSE TO PROMENCE AS A GAY ADULT FILM STAR OM 2001-2002 WH 11 FILMS TO DATE, MANY OF WHICH I’M SURE YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN. INTERTGLY ENOUGH, BEFORE FORD’S TIME THE MOVIE DTRY, HE BEGAN HIS REER AS A BACK-UP SGER FOR THE LIK OF SALT ‘N PEPA, CHAKA KHAN, AND VANSA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORD WALKED AWAY OM THE ADULT FILM DTRY 2002 TO REFOC HIS REER ON MIC, GENERATG A STRG OF CLUB/DANCE HS CLUDG “EVERYTHG” AND “THAT’S ME” ON WHICH HE LLABORATED WH CAZWELL. HIS VER OF STEVIE WONR’S “SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED I’M YOURS” PEAKED AT NO. 9 ON THE HOT DANCE CLUB PLAY CHART WHILE HIS BUT ALBUM TUG OF WAR WAS RELEASED 2008. IN THE SAME YEAR HE PARTICIPATED THE TE COLORS TOUR ALONGSI CYNDI LPER, THE INDIGO GIRLS AND JOAN JETT. FORD APPEARS THE MIC VIO FOR LPER’S 2008 SGLE “INTO THE NIGHTLIFE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORD’S SEND ALBUM UNR THE COVERS FEATUR HIS VERSNS OF TRACKS OM ARTISTS LIKE BRNEY SPEARS’ “TROUBLE” AND ROBYN’S “WH EVERY HEARTBEAT.” SO WHAT KD OF MAN IS SOMEONE LIKE COLTON FORD TO? HE SAYS HE LIK “A MAN WHO N BE VULNERABLE, SHARE HIS SECURI, BE THE MOMENT AND BE VERY HONT AND THENTIC. THAT SPEAKS TO ME MORE THAN ANYTHG. THAT’S A REALLY, REALLY HOT QUALY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}48. JAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TEXAS BORN BRANNAN HAS BEEN PARED TO RUF WAWRIGHT FOR HIS OPENNS AS A GAY ARTIST, AND HAS BEEN PARED TO ANI DIFRAN AND JONI MCHELL FOR HIS CRAFTS WH SONGWRG, POSSSG THE QUALI OF AN “ANGRY, SAD WOMAN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2002, AFTER JT ONE SEMTER OF LLEGE OH, BRANNAN SET OUT FOR NEW YORK CY HOPG TO BREAK TO THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY. HE QUICKLY LAND A ROLE THE FILM SHORTB AND GOT THE CHANCE TO ADD HIS OWN SONG “SODA SHOP” TO THE MOVIE’S SOUNDTRACK. BRANNAN’S MIC REER SOON TOOK OFF AS HE UTILIZED MYSPACE, YOUTUBE AND BLOGSPOT TO ROUTELY UPLOAD SELF-MA MIC VIOS. HE SOON VELOPED A LOYAL FAN BASE AND 2008, BRANNAN RELEASED HIS BUT ALBUM GODDAMNED AND FOLLOWED UP WH AN ALBUM OF VER SONGS IN LIVG COLOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}47. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JORDANIAN-AMERIN LOS ANGEL-BASED SGER-SONGWRER, FERRAS GREW UP A SMALL TOWN ILLOIS WHERE HE NEVER FELT LIKE HE REALLY F . AFTER HIS PARENTS DIVORCED, HIS FATHER KIDNAPPED HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO JORDAN, WHERE HE BEGAN PLAYG A CAS KEYBOARD AND BEGAN WRG HIS OWN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FERRAS’ FIRST ALBUM, ALIENS AND RABOWS FEATURED THE SONG “HOLLYWOOD’S NOT AMERI,” WHICH WAS ED AS THE EX SONG FOR SEASON SEVEN OF AMERIN IDOL. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE HAS SCE -WRTEN SEVERAL SONGS FOR ARTISTS CLUDG ADAM LAMBERT AND THE VERONIS, AND IS CURRENTLY WORKG ON HIS NEXT ALBUM WHICH HE HOP TO RELEASE 2011. (IT IS CURRENTLY POST-PRODUCTN.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH HIS SMOOTH, SWEET VOICE AND HIS CREDIBLE SONGWRG ABILY, FERRAS IS CERTALY A TALENT TO WATCH. AND WHAT DO OPENLY GAY FERRAS LOOK FOR A MATE? “A SENSE OF HUMOR. AND A GREAT ASS”.{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}46. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MASSACHETTS-BORN LE CASWELL, AKA CAZWELL, HAS BEEN PRAISED AT THE GAY MAN’S EMEM AND IS A PERSONAL FAVORE OF SIR ELTON JOHN. BT KNOWN FOR HIS GAY AND BISEXUAL-THEMED LYRICS, AS WELL AS HIS SEXUAL VIOS WHICH OFTEN FEATURE MEOS BY NEW YORK-BASED TRANSSEXUAL IN AMANDA LEPORE, CAZWELL’S FLUENC RANGE OM THE NOTOR B.I.G. TO THE BEASTIE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS BUT ALBUM, GET INTO IT, WAS RELEASED 2006 AND THE MIC VIO FOR THE LEAD SGLE “ALL OVER YOUR FACE” TURNED OUT TO BE TOO NTROVERSIAL TO BE AIRED ON LOGO DUE TO THE EXPLIC LYRICS AND SEXUAL THEM. DURG 2007 CAZWELL TOURED ALONGSI CYNDI LPER, RUF WAWRIGHT, THE INDIGO GIRLS AND OTHER SPECIAL GUTS ON THE TE COLORS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE VIO FOR CAZWELL’S IL SGLE “I SEEN BEYONCE AT BURGER KG” WENT VIRAL 2008 AND 2010 CAZWELL RELEASED THE VIO FOR “ICE CREAM TCK”, WHICH THE ADVOTE LLED “THE SUMMER’S RNCHIT MIC VIO.” FEATURG A PACK OF HALF-NAKED CHISELED GO GO BOYS, ’S NO SURPRISE THE VIO GAED OVER ONE LN VIEWS S FIRST WEEK. IT SEEMS CAZWELL CERTALY KNOWS WHAT GAY MEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}45. OWEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF YOU’RE A FAN OF ANDREW BIRD, BEIT, OR AR FIRE, THEN YOU’RE LIKELY FAIAR WH CANADIAN POSER, VLIST, KEYBOARDIST AND VOLIST OWEN PALLETT. PALLETT -WROTE THE STRGS ARRANGEMENTS FOR AR FIRE’S ALBUMS FUNERAL, NEON BIBLE AND THE SUBURBS. HE BEGAN HIS MIC REER UNR THE ALIAS “FAL FANTASY,” A NAME HE CREATED DUE TO HIS AFFY FOR THE JAPANE VIOGAME SERI OF THE SAME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PALLET’S PENCHANT FOR HUMORO ALBUM TL RULTED THE UNFETTABLE NAME OF HIS SEND ALBUM, HE POOS CLOUDS, WHICH WENT ON TO W CANADA’S POLARIS MIC PRIZE 2006. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT PALLETT’S REER BEGAN TO REALLY TAKE OFF, AND HE HIRED HIS BOYIEND PATRICK BORJAL AS HIS MANAGER AND THEY FORMED THE APTLY TLED PANY BOYIEND MANAGEMENT. IN 2009, PALLETT RETIRED THE E OF HIS BAND NAME FAL FANTASY AND RELEASED HIS CRILLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}44. PATRICK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ENGLISH SGER-SONGWRER PATRICK WOLF IS KNOWN FOR BG CLASSIL STMENTS SUCH AS THE PIANO, VLA, AND ULELE WH ELECTRONIC TECHNO-POP BEATS. WOLF’S ALBUM WD THE WIR GAED HIM NSIRABLE DIE MIC RPECT AND HE BEGAN PERFORMG WH THE LIK OF OWEN PALLETT, THE HIDN CAMERAS, AND AR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HIS THIRD ALBUM MAGIC POSN IS WHEN HE BEGAN TO SEE TE MERCIAL SUCCS AND EMBARKED ON A TOUR OF NORTH AMERI, EUROPE, JAPAN AND ATRALIA. THE OPENLY BISEXUAL WOLF SPARKED NTROVERSY AROUND HIS SEXUALY DURG AN TERVIEW WH THE LONDON PAPER WHEN HE STATED “IN THE SAME WAY I DON’T KNOW IF MY SIXTH ALBUM IS GOG TO BE A ATH-METAL RERD OR CHILDREN’S POP, I DON’T KNOW WHETHER I’M STED TO LIVE MY LIFE WH A HORSE, A WOMAN OR A MAN.” HE HAS BEEN A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A MAN NAMED WILLIAM SCE AUGT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}43. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YANIS SAHRAOUL, AKA SLIIMY, IS OF MOROCN-ALGERIAN SCENT AND A NATIVE OF FRANCE. THE FORMER TEENAGE CHOIRBOY WH AN UNDYG VOTN TO LILY ALLEN AND AN UNNNY REMBLANCE TO PRCE, RELEASED HIS BUT ALBUM PAT YOUR FACE 2009. THE ALBUM QUICKLY CLIMBED TO NO. 2 ON THE FRANCE ALBUM CHARTS, BUT WAS HIS VER OF BRNEY SPEARS’ “WOMANIZER” THAT BROUGHT HIM AMERIN ATTENTN. (KATY PERRY AND LADY GAGA BOTH TWEETED HIS VIO).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CELEBRY BLOGGER PEREZ HILTON SIGNED HIM AS THE BUT ARTIST FOR HILTON’S PEREZC MIC LABEL. JT THREE DAYS BEFORE THE RELEASE OF HIS ALBUM, SLIIMY BOLDLY ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS GAY. “I DON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM SAYG THAT I’M GAY. I EMBRACE AND DON’T WANT TO HI .”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}42. STEPH MERRT (THE MAGIC FIELDS){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOSTON-BORN SGER/SONGWRER AND MULTI-STMENTALIST STEPH MERRT IS BT KNOWN AS THE LEAD SGER OF THE SYNTHPOP, FOLK GROUP THE MAGIC FIELDS. KNOWN FOR HIS UNTRAED AND DISTCT BARONE VOICE, MERRT HAS BEEN DUBBED “THE MOST MISERABLE MAN ROCK” DUE TO HIS BTER, IRONIC, AND OFTEN HUMORO TAKE ON LOVE. KNOWN MIC CIRCL AS A “GAY SYNTH-POP” GROUP, THE MAGIC FIELDS NSIST OF ONE GAY MALE ARTIST (MERRT), ONE LBIAN (CLDIA GONSON), ONE STRAIGHT FEMALE (SAN AMWAY, WHO IS NO LONGER WH THE GROUP), AND TWO STRAIGHT MAL (SAM DAVOL AND JOHN WOO).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEIR BT-KNOWN WORK IS THEIR THREE-VOLUME NCEPT ALBUM 69 LOVE SONGS, VOTED ALBUM OF THE YEAR BY THE VILLAGE VOICE. THEY ARE ALSO KNOWN FOR THEIR WI RANGE OF STMENTATN CLUDG THE ACRDN, BANJO, CELLO, FLUTE, MANDOL, ULELE, AND XYLOPHONE. MERR’S LYRICS OFTEN AL WH HIS SEXUALY AS EVINCED BY HIS TRACK “WHEN MY BOY WALKS DOWN THE STREET” FEATURG THE LYRICS “AMAZG, HE’S A WHOLE NEW FORM OF LIFE, BLUE EY BLAZG, AND HE’S GOG TO BE MY WIFE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}41. JT TRANTER (SEMI PREC WEAPONS){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JT TRANTER IS MOST FAMO FOR HIS ROLE AS THE LEAD SGER OF THE NEW YORK-BASED GLAM ROCK BAND SEMI PREC WEAPONS. RAISED LAKE ZURICH, ILLOIS, TRANTER STUDIED AT THE CHIGO AMY FOR THE ARTS AND AT THE BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MIC BOSTON, GRADUATG WH A GREE SONGWRG. IN 2006, TRANTER, ALONG WH FELLOW BERKLEE GRADUAT, STEVY PYNE, COLE WHTLE AND DEAN CREAN, FORMED SEMI PREC WEAPONS. TRANTER ALSO VELOPED A JEWELRY LE LLED “FETTY” THAT IS SOLD AT BARNEYS, URBAN OUTFTERS AND HOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FUND BY THE SAL OF HIS JEWELRY LE, TRANTER RERD AND RELEASED THE FIRST SPW ALBUM WE LOVE YOU 2008 WH THE STANDOUT SGLE “MAGIC BABY” AND THE GROUP WAS SIGNED TO INTERSPE RERDS THE NEXT YEAR. TRANTER IS A CLOSE IEND TO LADY GAGA, AND SPW MA A MEO HER “TELEPHONE” MIC VIO AND HAS BEEN A RECURRG OPENG ACT ON HER MONSTER BALL TOUR. OPENLY GAY, TRANTER ME OUT AT 14 AND FAMOLY STATED AN TERVIEW WH : “IF THEY AREN'T GOG TO GIVE ME AND THE RT OF THE HOMOS EQUAL RIGHTS THEN I DON'T WANT TO PAY EQUAL TAX”.{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}40. RAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BORN MUNCIE, INDIANA, RAY BOLTZ IS AN AWARD-WNG NTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN SGER/SONGWRER. BOLTZ’S REER CHRISTIAN MIC TOOK OFF WHEN HIS SONG “THANK YOU” RECEIVED THE SONG OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE 1990 GMA DOVE AWARDS AND HE HAS SCE GONE ON TO SELL OVER 4.5 LN RERDS. BOLTZ WAS MARRIED TO HIS WIFE CAROL FOR OVER 30 YEARS BEFORE G OUT 2008 THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF THE WASHGTON BLA. IN THE TERVIEW, BOLTZ STATED: "IF THIS IS THE WAY GOD MA ME, THEN THIS IS THE WAY I'M GOG TO LIVE. IT'S NOT LIKE GOD MA ME THIS WAY AND HE'LL SEND ME TO HELL IF I AM WHO HE CREATED ME TO BE — I REALLY FEEL CLOSER TO GOD BEE I NO LONGER HATE MYSELF."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SCE THEN HE HAS NTUED TO PERFORM AT SEVERAL CHURCH OM THE GAY-AFFIRMG CHRISTIAN NOMATN METROPOLAN COMMUNY CHURCH. IN 2010, HE RELEASED THE ALBUM TE WH THE SONGS “DON’T TELL ME WHO TO LOVE,” ALG WH SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND “WHO WOULD J LOVE,” A SONG ABOUT RENCILG HIS SEXUALY AND HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}39. JOE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOE MCELRRY GAED REGNN AS THE WNER OF THE SIXTH SEASON OF UK’S THE X FACTOR 2009. MCELRRY FIRST DNED FOR THE X FACTOR 2007 BUT OPTED TO WALK AWAY OM THE PETN BEE HE FELT HE WAS TOO YOUNG PARED TO THE OTHER NTTANTS. IN 2009, HE AGA CID TO DN FOR THE SHOW AND WOUND UP WNG WH HIS VER OF MILEY CYS’S “THE CLIMB.” HIS VER OF CYS’S SONG WENT ON TO REACH NO. 1 ON BOTH THE UK AND IRELAND’S SGLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MCELRRY’S PRIZE AS WNER OF THE X FACTOR WAS A RERDG NTRACT WH SIMON COWELL’S SY RERD LABEL WORTH AN TIMATED £1 LN. MCELRRY WAS ALSO FEATURED ON THE CHARY SGL OF R.E.M.’S “EVERYBODY HURTS” FOR THE 2010 HAIAN EARTHQUAKE AND JULY 2010, MCELRRY POSTED ON HIS OFFICIAL WEBSE THAT HE IS GAY AND GAVE AN TERVIEW TO THE UK’S DAILY MAIL WHICH HE CLARED “I’M REALLY HAPPY, I NOW KNOW WHO I AM…. I’VE HAD TIME TO THK ABOUT THGS. I WASN’T ATTRACTED TO ANYONE ANYWAY, MALE OR FEMALE. IT NEVER REALLY ENTERED MY HEAD I WAS GAY. BUT I JT KNOW. IT’S HOW I FEEL.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE RELEASE PARTY FOR HIS BUT ALBUM WI AWAKE WAS HELD AT LONDON’S FAMO CLUB G-A-Y ON OCTOBER 23, 2010 AND THE TRACK “SOMEONE WAKE ME UP” IS FEATURED ON THE SOUNDTRACK FOR DISNEY’S THE CHRONICL OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}38. MATT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SON OF FAMED UNTRY MIC STAR GARY MORRIS, MATT MORRIS IS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE DISNEY CHANNEL’S THE MICKEY MOE CLUB ALONGSI JT TIMBERLAKE, CHRISTA AGUILERA, BRNEY SPEARS, RYAN GOSLG, KERI RSELL, AND JC CHASEZ. MORRIS FOUND SUCCS AS A SONGWRER THE EARLY 2000S WH HS LIKE AGUILERA’S “CAN’T HOLD US DOWN” AND KELLY CLARKSON’S “MISS INPENNT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN JANUARY 2010, MORRIS RELEASED HIS BUT ALBUM WHEN EVERYTHG BREAKS OPEN ON TIMBERLAKE’S TENNMAN RERDS. HIS PERFORMANCE OF “HALLELUJAH” ALONGSI TIMBERLAKE FOR THE HOPE FOR HAI NOW TELETHON BEME THE MOST DOWNLOAD SONG OFF THE BROADST’S DIGAL RELEASE AND ROSE TO NO. 1 ON THE ITUN SGL CHART. MORRIS MARRIED HIS HBAND SEAN MICHAEL MORRIS DURG THE BRIEF TIME THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS LEGAL CALIFORNIA. HIS HBAND ALSO SERV AS SPIRATN FOR THE SONG “LOVE” ON HIS BUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}37. CHRIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHRIS WILLIS IALLY BEGAN HIS REER AS A GOSPEL SGER, BUT RECEIVED TERNATNAL FAME FOR HIS LLABORATNS WH FRENCH MIC PRODUCER DAVID GUETTA ON TRACKS SUCH AS “LOVE IS GONE” “GETTG’ OVER” AND “LOVE DON’T LET ME GO.” IN THE MID-1990’S WILLIS RELEASED HIS SELF-TLED GOSPEL ALBUM AND WENT ON TOUR WH CHRISTIAN SGER TWILA PARIS AND EDIAN MARK LOWRY. TOWARD THE END OF THE ‘90S WILLIS FALLY MA PEACE WH HIS SEXUALY AND TRANSNED OUT OF GOSPEL MIC. WHILE DOG PUBLICY PARIS, WILLIS MET GUETTA AND THE TWO -WROTE AND RERD “JT A LTLE MORE LOVE” THAT SAME DAY, WHICH WENT ON TO BE A SMASH H ACROSS EUROPE. WILLIS HAS SCE BEEN FEATURED ON FIVE OF GUETTA’S ALBUMS; MOST RECENTLY WH THE SUCCSFUL SGLE “GETT’ OVER” OFF GUETTA’S GRAMMY-NOMATED 2009 RELEASE ONE LOVE. IN OCT 2010 WILLIS RELEASED HIS SOLO SGLE “LOUR (PUT YOUR HANDS UP).”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}36. EDWARD DROSTE (GRIZZLY BEAR){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDWARD DROSTE IS ONE OF THE ORIGAL MEMBERS OF THE BROOKLYN BASED DIE-ROCK QUARTET GRIZZLY BEAR. THE GROUP BEGAN AS A SOLO EFFORT ON DROSTE’S PART 2004. DROSTE ACCREDS THE BAND’S NAME TO A NICKNAME HE HAD FOR ONE OF HIS PAST BOYIENDS. BY 2005 DROSTE HAD EXPAND GRIZZLY BEAR TO A FOUR-MEMBER GROUP MAKG EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHELIC FOLK-POP MIC PARABLE TO THAT OF ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AND FLEET FOX. IN 2008 GRIZZLY BEAR OPENED FOR RADHEAD AND SOON AFTER RELEASED THEIR MOST CRILLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM TO DATE VECKATIMT, NAMED AFTER A SMALL, UNHABED ISLAND CAPE COD. THEIR FAN BASE NSISTS OF JAY-Z AND BEYONCE, WHO WERE RECENTLY SPOTTED AT ONE OF THEIR 2009 SHOWS. VECKATIMIST RANKED ON NUMERO LISTS AS ONE OF THE BT ALBUMS OF 2009 (WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIM, TIME MAGAZE) AND CLIMBED THE CHARTS TO S BETWEEN LADY GAGA’S THE FAME AND TAYLOR SWIFT’S FEARLS. WH ALL OF THIS SUCCS, WHAT DO SOMEONE LIKE DROSTE ENJOY DOG HIS SPARE TIME? SPENDG TIME AT HOME WH HIS TERR SIGNER BOYIEND CHAD MCPHAIL AND THEIR DOG, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}35. ROSTAM BATMANGLIJ (VAMPIRE WEEKEND){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROSTAM BATMANGLIJ IS A MULTI-STMENTALIST, SONGWRER, PRODUCER AND SOLE GAY MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CY-BASED DIE ROCK GROUP VAMPIRE WEEKEND. BATMANGLIJ IS ALSO THE -FOUNR OF ELECTRONIC FUNK PROJECT DISVERY WH RA RA RT VOLIST W MIL. BATMANGLIJ’S FAY MOVED OM IRAN TO AMERI JT BEFORE THE IRANIAN REVOLUTN 1979. HIS MOTHER NAJMIEAH IS A FAMO PERSIAN OKBOOK THOR AND HIS FATHER IS A PUBLISHER. WHILE ATTENDG COLUMBIA UNIVERSY, BATMANGLIJ MET HIS FELLOW VAMPIRE WEEKEND MEMBERS. THEIR BUT SELF-TLED ALBUM PRODUCED THE SGL “CAPE COD KWASSA KWASSA,” “MANSARD ROOF,” “A-PUNK,” AND “OXFORD COMMA.” “A-PUNK” WAS RANKED #4 ON ROLLG STONE MAGAZE’S LIST OF BT SONGS OF 2008. THE GROUP QUICKLY WENT OM PLAYG AT FFEE SHOPS AND BARS AROUND COLUMBIA UNIVERSY TO APPEARG ON DAVID LETTERMAN AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AND SHARG MANAGEMENT WH THE WHE STRIP AND M.I.A.. FELLOW VAMPIRE WEEKEND BAND MATE EZRA KOENIG ACCREDS BATMANGLIJ AS THE KEY LYRICIST FOR HALF OF THE BAND’S SONGS. AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN, BATMANGLIJ SAYS HE’S EXCED TO RPORATE GAY THEM FUTURE SONGS, STARTG WH DISVERY’S “I WANNA BE YOUR BOYIEND.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}34. SAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ATRALIAN BORN SGER/SONGWRER AND MIC PRODUCER, SAM SPARRO (BORN SAM FALSON) WAS STED TO BE THE MIC BS OM THE START. WHEN SPARRO WAS ONLY 10, HIS FATHER, CHRIS FALSON, SIGNED A RERD AL TO CREATE A SOUL ALBUM AND MOVED HIS ENTIRE FAY OM SYDNEY TO LOS ANGEL. WHILE L.A. SPARRO GOT A START AS A CHILD ACTOR AND WAS FEATURED MCDONALD’S MERCIALS. SPARRO ALSO LENT HIS VOLS TO HIS FATHER’S ALBUMS AND WAS A MON BACK-UP SGER AT HIS DAD’S SHOWS. SPARRO RELEASED HIS BUT SGLE “COTTONMOUTH” 2007, BUT WAS HIS FOLLOW-UP SGLE “BLACK AND GOLD” THAT PEAKED THE CHARTS AND CREATED NUMERO VERS OM THE LIK OF WALE, ELLIE GOULDG, ALE, AND MORE. PRODUCERS MARK RONSON (AMY WEHOE) AND PL EPWORTH (FLORENCE + THE MACHE, BLOC PARTY) WORKED WH SPARRO ON HIS SELF-TLED BUT ALBUM, WHICH REACHED THE TOP 5 ON THE UK ALBUM CHARTS. OPENLY GAY, SPARRO HAS BEEN DUBBED A “GAY SUPERHERO.” HE CHOSE TO E OUT AT THE START OF HIS REER SO THAT, SPARRO’S WORDS, “GAY TEENAGERS DON'T HAVE TO GET THE SH KICKED OUT OF THEM SCHOOL AND THK THAT THEY'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON. IT'S EASIER TO BE AN 'OUT' POP STAR TODAY. MORRISSEY NEVER ME OUT, AND NEIL TENNANT LEFT VERY, VERY LATE, WHEREAS JAKE SHEARS WAS OPEN OM THE START." SPARRO IS CURRENTLY WORKG ON HIS SOPHOMORE ALBUM TO BE RELEASED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}33. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRISH SGER-SONGWRER, MIKA RELEASED HIS FIRST FULL-LENGTH STUD ALBUM LIFE CARTOON MOTN 2007, WHICH WENT ON TO SELL OVER 5.6 LN PI WORLDWI AND GARNERED HIM A GRAMMY NOMATN FOR BT DANCE RERDG FOR HIS H “LOVE TODAY.” HIS SGLE “GRACE KELLY” REACHED NUMBER ONE THE UK AND EARNED HIM THE PRTIG BRIT AWARD FOR BT BRISH BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST. TWO YEARS LATER MIKA’S SEND ALBUM THE BOY WHO KNEW TOO MUCH WAS RELEASED PRODUCG THE SGL “WE ARE GOLN” AND “BLAME ON THE GIRLS.” IN REGARDS TO MIKA’S SEXUALY, HE HAS OPENLY STATED TO GAY & NIGHT MAGAZE "I'VE NEVER EVER LABELED MYSELF. BUT HAVG SAID THAT; I'VE NEVER LIMED MY LIFE, I'VE NEVER LIMED WHO I SLEEP WH... CALL ME WHATEVER YOU WANT. CALL ME BISEXUAL, IF YOU NEED A TERM FOR ME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}32. CASEY SPOONER (FISCHERSPOONER){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BORN ATHENS, GA CASEY SPOONER IS ONE HALF OF THE ELECTRO POP DUO FISCHERSPOONER. ASI OM LEADG ON VOLS, SPOONER IS A VIOGRAPHER AND THEATER PERFORMANCE ARTIST WHO MET WARREN FISCHER WHILE ATTENDG THE ART INSTUTE OF CHIGO 1998. TOGETHER THE TWO HAVE RELEASED THREE STUD ALBUMS AS FISCHERSPOONER CLUDG THE SUCCSFUL SGL “THE BT REVENGE” AND “JT LET GO.” IN JANUARY 2010 SPOONER RELEASED HIS FIRST SOLO SGLE “FAYE DUNAWAY” OFF HIS ALBUM ADULT CONTEMPORARY. HE CURRENTLY IS TOURG AS THE OPENG ACT FOR SCISSOR SISTERS’S NORTH AMERIN TOUR. OPENLY GAY, SPOONER’S FIRST ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP WAS WH R.E.M. SGER MICHAEL STIPE WHILE SPOONER WAS ATTENDG THE UNIVERSY OF GEIA. SPOONER RELISH THE IA OF BEG A POSIVE ROLE MOL FOR THE GAY MUNY, STATG: "IF I N BE AN SPIRATN TO PEOPLE WHO ARE CHOOSG TO GO DOWN A CHALLENGG, NONTRADNAL PATH--SEXUALLY, CREATIVELY, HOWEVER--THAT IS JT GREAT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}31. BOB {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORMER ONT MAN FOR ALTERNATIVE ROCK BANDS HüSKER Dü AND SUGAR, BOB MOULD IS AN AMERIN GUARIST, VOLIST AND SONGWRER OM NEW YORK. WHILE LIVG MNEAPOLIS THE LATE 1970’S MOULD FORMED THE PUNK ROCK GROUP HüSKER Dü, A BAND THAT WENT ON TO BEE A KEY FLUENCER OF THE 90’S PUNK ROCK WAVE. IN THE LATE 1980’S HüSKER Dü BROKE UP AND MOULD WENT ON TO WRE HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM. SURPRISGLY MOULD TOOK A TOUR OM THE LOUD PUNK-ROCK GUAR SOUND HE WAS KNOWN FOR AND CREATED A SOUND MORE SIAR TO THAT OF THE COUNTG CROWS OR G BLOSSOMS. IN THE MID-1990’S MOULD FORMED THE LLEGE/ALTERNATIVE RAD FAVORE BAND SUGAR THAT RELEASED TWO EPS BEFORE BREAKG UP. MOULD PRENTLY TOURS AS A SOLO ARTIST AND MUCH OF HIS WRG MATERIAL STEMS OM HIS EXPERIENCE SPENDG YEARS AS A CLOSETED GAY MAN THE ROCK MIC SCENE AND THE TURBULENT RELATNSHIPS OF HIS PAST. IN 2006 HE NTRIBUTED THE SONG “IF I CAN’T CHANGE YOUR MD” TO THE ALBUM WED-ROCK, AN ALBUM TO PROMOTE THE LEGALIZATN OF SAME-SEX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}30. JONSI (SIGUR RóS){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JóN “JóNSI” ÞóR BIRGISSON IS THE LEAD VOLIST AND GUARIST FOR THE ICELANDIC ROCK BAND SIGUR RóS. KNOWN FOR HIS FALSETTO VOICE AND MA UP LANGUAGE “HOPELANDIC,” JONSI HAS CREATED SOME OF THE MOST BETIFUL EXPERIMENTAL DIE-ROCK MIC SCE RADHEAD. IN 1995 JONSI STARTED THE BAND BEE SPIRS, WHICH WAS LIKENED TO THE SMASHG PUMPKS. BY 1997 JóNSI HAD FORMED SIGUR RóS AND RELEASED THEIR BUT ALBUM VON. SIGUR RóS HAS SCE RELEASED FOUR ADDNAL STUD ALBUMS, THEIR MOST SUCCSFUL ENGLISH CROSSOVER ALBUM BEG MEð SUð í EYM VIð SPILUM ENDALST (MEANG “WH A BUZZ IN OUR EARS WE PLAY ENDLSLY”). IN 2010 THE GROUP ANNOUNCED AN “FE HIAT” AND JóNSI WENT ON TO RELEASE HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM GO. HIS BOYIEND ALEX SOMERS HAS DONE MUCH OF THE GRAPHIC SIGN FOR SIGUR RóS OVER THE YEARS. THE TWO ALSO PERFORM TOGETHER THE GROUP JóNSI & ALEX AND RELEASED AN ALBUM: RICEBOY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}29. CHUCK PANOZZO (STYX){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS THE BASSIST AND -FOUNR (WH HIS LATE BROTHER AND TW, JOHN) OF THE ROCK BAND STYX, CHUCK PANOZZO HAS GIVEN MUCH TO THE WORLD OF MIC. FROM THE 70’S TO THE EARLY 80’S, STYX PRODUCED SUCH HS AS “LADY,” “COME SAIL AWAY,” “ANGRY YOUNG MAN” AND “RENEGA.” THEY HAVE BEEN TOGETHER ON AND OFF SCE THE EARLY 80’S, WH PANOZZO PARTICIPATG AS MUCH AS HE WAS ABLE. HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HIV-POSIVE 1991, DOCTORS TELLG HIM THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW TO HELP HIM. IN 1998 HE MTED HIMSELF TO GETTG WELL AND HAS BEEN ON AN AGGRSIVE REGIMEN EVER SCE. AS HE SAYS ON HIS WEBSE, “I WANTED TO OUT MYSELF A MEANGFUL AND POSIVE WAY.” HE CHOSE TO ANNOUNCE TO THE WORLD THAT HE IS GAY AT A HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DNER 2001. PANOZZO IS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE HRC AND IS VOLVED WH HIV/AIDS AWARENS ACTIVI. AS HE SAYS, “I WANT TO BE SURE LAWS ARE MA AND PROTECTED FOR ALL. THERE WILL BE NO SEND-CLASS CIZENS THIS SOCIETY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}28. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTHONY CHARL WILLIAM III, BETTER KNOWN BY HIS STAGE NAME TONEX, IS A GRAMMY NOMATED GOSPEL SGER WHO HAS RELEASED AN IMPRSIVE 24 ALBUMS OVER THE SPAN OF HIS 14-YEAR REER. INFLUENCED BY THE LIK OF STEVIE WONR, PRCE, AND MICHAEL JACKSON, TONEX RERD HIS FIRST ALBUM AT THE MERE AGE OF 10. TONEX’S UNIQUE STYLE AND SOUND, WHICH HE LLS “NURE” - A BATN OF POP, ROCK, R&B, JAZZ, SOUL, URBAN DANCE, RAP, FUNK AND HIP HOP- GAED HIM NSIRABLE ATTENTN AMONG YOUNG GOSPEL MIC FANATICS. TONEX’S BUT NCERT PERFORMANCE AT THE 14TH ANNUAL STELLAR AWARDS, A GOSPEL MIC SHOWSE, WAS LIKENED TO THAT OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S PERFORMANCE OF THE MOONWALK. TONEX’S MOST SUCCSFUL ALBUM TO DATE IS THE GRAMMY NOMATED 2004 RELEASE OUT THE BOX WHICH HE LLABORATED WH KIRK FRANKL AND PRCE’S PERCSNIST SHEILA E. TONEX DIVORCED HIS WIFE OF 5 YEARS, YVETTE WILLIAMS, 2004 AND 2009, ON A POPULAR CHRISTIAN TELEVISN SHOW “THE LEXI SHOW,” TONEX ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS GAY. HE SOON SAW BACKLASH WH THE AIN AMERIN AND CHURCH MUNY AND REQUTS FOR HIM TO PERFORM SUDNLY STOPPED. THAT DIDN’T SLOW HIM DOWN THOUGH. AS A PASTOR, TONEX PRENTLY TRAVELS SPREADG A MSAGE OF ACCEPTANCE THE CHURCH AND HAS BEEN A HUGE SPIRATN FOR MANY GAY AIN AMERIN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}27. ANTONY HEGARTY (ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ENGLISH-BORN SGER/SONGWRER, POSER AND VISUAL ARTIST, ANTONY HEGARTY IS BT KNOWN FOR HIS ANDROGYNO VOICE AS THE LEAD SGER OF THE BAND ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS. IN 1996 HEGARTY UTILIZED LLEGE GRANT MONEY TO SOLIC MICIANS TO RERD SOME OF HIS SONGS; TH BEGAN ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS. BY 2005 THE GROUP WAS PERFORMG REGULARLY AROUND NEW YORK CY AND SOLICED THE LIK OF BOY GEE, RUF WAWRIGHT AND LOU REED TO LLABORATE ON THEIR ALBUM I AM A BIRD NOW. THE ALBUM RECEIVED NSIRABLE PRAISE AND GARNERED ANTONY UK’S MOST PRTIG AWARD - THE MERCURY PRIZE. WH LYRICS LIKE “ONE DAY I’LL GROW UP AND BE A BETIFUL WOMAN,” ANTONY HAS NEVER MASKED HIS SEXUAL INTY, AND NSIRS BOY GEE AND MARC ALMOND TWO OF HIS GREATT IDOLS. ANTONY’S FOLLOW-UP ALBUM THE CRYG LIGHT PEAKED NO. 1 ON THE EUROPEAN BILLBOARD CHARTS. IN 2008, ANTONY LEANT HIS VOLS TO A SI PROJECT ENTLED HERCUL AND LOVE AFFAIR. THEIR TRACK “BLD” RANKED NO. 2 ON ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY’S “10 BT SGL OF 2008.” ANTONY’S FAME IS STILL GROWG AND AS A RELATIVELY NEW ARTIST, HE HAS QUE A FAN BOY GEE. GEE ONCE STATED HE ENVISNS ANTONY “OUTSTRIPPG NORAH JON AND SELLG LNS OF RERDS IF ANYONE HAD THE BALLS TO GIVE HIM A HUGE RERD NTRACT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}26. CLAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMERIN SGER/SONGWRER, ACTOR, PRODUCER AND THOR CLAY AIKEN ROSE TO FAME ON THE SEND SEASON OF AMERIN IDOL 2003 AS NNER-UP TO RUBEN STUDDARD. RCA RERDS OFFERED HIM A RERDG NTRACT AND HIS MULTI-PLATUM BUT ALBUM MEASURE OF A MAN WAS RELEASED OCTOBER 2003. SCE THEN AIKEN HAS RELEASED FOUR MORE ALBUMS ON THE RCA LABEL AND LNCHED NE TOURS, THORED A NEW YORK TIM BT-SELLG BOOK LEARNG TO SG: HEARG THE MIC YOUR LIFE, CREATED THE NATNAL INCLN PROJECT FOR CHILDREN WH DISABILI, BEME A UNICEF AMBASSADOR 2004, AND WAS APPOTED FOR A TWO-YEAR TERM TO THE PRINTIAL COMMTEE FOR PEOPLE WH INTELLECTUAL DISABILI. AIKEN MA HIS BROADWAY BUT PLAYG SIR ROB ON MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT. ON AUGT 8TH 2008 AIKEN ANNOUNCED THE BIRTH OF HIS SON PARKER FOSTER AIKEN, TO MOTHER JAM FOSTER, SISTER OF AIKEN’S RERD PRODUCER DAVID FOSTER. IN A SEPTEMBER 2008 ISSUE OF PEOPLE MAGAZE, AFTER YEARS OF SPECULATN, AIKEN REVEALED HE IS GAY. SCE THEN AIKEN HAS PARTICIPATED THE BROADWAY CAR/EQUY FIGHTS AIDS MPAIGN, SPOKEN AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DNER NORTH CAROLA, AND PARTICIPATED CYNDI LPER’S “GIVE A DAMN CAMPAIGN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}25. KELE OKEREKE (BLOC PARTY){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRISH MICIAN KELE OKEREKE IS BT KNOWN AS THE LEAD SGER AND GUARIST FOR THE ALT ROCK BAND BLOC PARTY. IN 2005 BLOC PARTY RELEASED THEIR FIRST STUD ALBUM SILENT ALARM WH THE SGL “PNEER” “BANQUET” AND “HELIPTER.” PRODUCED BY PL EPWORTH (FLORENCE + THE MACHE, CEE-LO GREEN, KATE NASH), SILENT ALARM REACHED NO. 3 THE UK CHARTS AND ROCKETED THE BAND TO FAME. THEIR FOLLOW-UP ALBUM A WEEKEND THE CY WENT ON TO REACH THE NO. 2 SPOT THE OFFICIAL UK CHART, AND THE FIRST SGLE “THE PRAYER” REACHED NO. 4 ON THE UK SGL CHART, THE GROUP’S HIGHT PLACG TO DATE. IN 2010 OKEREKE RELEASED HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM BOXER PRODUCED BY XXXCHANGE WH THE LEAD TRACK TLED “TENRONI.” WHILE GEARG UP FOR HIS SOLO BUT, OKEREKE FALLY ME OUT A MARCH 2010 TERVIEW WH BUTT MAGAZE, A SUBJECT HE A HAD LONG AVOID, STATG: "MY PARENTS ARE SUPER-CATHOLIC AND THEY E OM A CULTURE NIGERIA WHERE THERE WEREN’T ANY VISIBLE GAY PEOPLE WHO WERE OUT AND WERE HAPPY. I LEFT HOME WHEN I WAS 20. MY PARENTS THREW ME OUT [FOR BEG GAY]. WHICH I KNEW THEY WOULD. WE DIDN'T SPEAK FOR LIKE A WEEK. ... MY PARENTS ARE GETTG OLR AND I DIDN’T LIKE THE IA THAT THEY ULD POSSIBLY DIE WHOUT KNOWG SOMETHG THAT IS A BIG PART OF MY LIFE. IT’S NOT EASY. ... WE'VE BEEN TALKG ABOUT ."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}24. DARREN HAY (SAVAGE GARN){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UK-BASED ATRALIAN SGER-SONGWRER, DARREN HAY WAS THE LEAD SGER AND MEDIA ONT MAN FOR POP DUO SAVAGE GARN, WHOSE 1997 ALBUM SAVAGE GARN WAS NO. 3 THE UNED STAT AND PRODUCED THE HS “TLY, MADLY, DEEPLY” AND “I WANT YOU.” SAVAGE GARN STAYED TOGETHER FOR ONLY TWO ALBUMS AND RELEASED THE US NO. 1 H “I KNEW I LOVED YOU” BEFORE HAY WENT OUT ON HIS OWN, CHANGG HIS SOUND OM SOFT POP-ROCK TO A MORE ELECTRONIC DARKER SOUND. HE HAS THREE SOLO ALBUMS UNR HIS BELT AND ANOTHER N BE EXPECTED 2011, PRODUCED BY LADY GAGA’S MIXER ROBERT ORTON. INCLUDG HIS WORK WH SAVAGE GARN, HAY HAS SOLD OVER 25 LN ALBUMS WORLDWI. ALTHOUGH HAY WAS MARRIED FOR SIX YEARS TO HIS CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART, MAKP ARTIST COLBY TAYLOR, THEY DIVORCED 2000 AND HE BEGAN G OUT TO HIS IENDS AND HIS LABEL THE EARLY 2000’S. IN 2006, HE MARRIED HIS BOYIEND OF TWO YEARS, RICHARD CULLEN, A CIVIL CEREMONY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}23. MARC ALMOND (SOFT CELL){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARC ALMOND ROSE TO FAME THE EARLY 1980S AS ONE HALF OF THE ENGLISH NEW WAVE DUO SOFT CELL. THEIR SLOWED-DOWN, SYNTHIZED VERSN OF GLORIA JON’ “TATED LOVE” WAS A NO. 1 H 17 UNTRI AND SPENT A RERD-BREAKG 43 WEEKS ON THE US HOT 100 CHARTS. THE TRACK ONCE AGA FOUND SELF ON THE CHARTS, WHEN 2006, RIHANNA SAMPLED ON HER NO. 1 H “SOS.” IN 1984 SOFT CELL SPL AMIBLY TO FOC ON SOLO EFFORTS AND ALMOND WENT ON TO RELEASE NUMERO SOLO ALBUMS. IN 1999, ALMOND RELEASED HIS TOBGRAPHY, TATED LIFE, WHICH HE OFFICIALLY ME OUT. SOFT CELL RNED 2002 AND PERFORMED A STRG OF NCERTS. 2010 MARKS ALMOND’S 30TH YEAR MIC AND HE IS GEARG UP FOR A NEW ALBUM AND GLOBAL TOUR. ALONG WH HIS TIME SOFT CELL, ALMOND HAS SOLD OVER 30 LN RERDS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}22. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS THE “QUEEN OF DIS,” SYLVTER WAS AN AMERIN DIS SGER WHO ROSE TO TERNATNAL FAME THE LATE 1970’S WH HS SUCH AS “YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL),” “DANCE (DIS HEAT),” AND “DO YOU WANNA FUNK.” KNOWN FOR HIS FALSETTO VOICE AND HIS EXOTIC STUM, SYLVTER GOT HIS START AS A DRAG PERFORMER THE SAN FRANCIS NIGHTLIFE SCENE. HIS SOPHOMORE ALBUM PRODUCED THE HS “DANCE (DIS HEAT)” AND “YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL),” BOTH OF WHICH LED THE AMERIN DANCE CHARTS FOR 6 WEEKS. IN 1979, HARVEY MILK VED SYLVTER TO PERFORM “YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL)” AT SAN FRANCIS’S CASTRO STREET FAIR AND 2004, HIS SAME H WAS DUCTED TO THE DANCE MIC HALL OF FAME. AS A RULT OF SYLVTER’S EVER-GROWG FAME, HIS LABEL BEGAN TO PRSURE HIM TO “BUTCH UP” HIS IMAGE - FIANCE SYLVTER BEGAN SHOWG UP TO LABEL MEETGS FULL-DRAG. TRAGILLY, DECEMBER 1988, AT THE AGE OF 41, SYLVTER DIED OM PLITNS DUE TO AIDS. HE STATED THE YEAR PRR TO HIS ATH: “I DON’T BELIEVE AIDS IS THE WRATH OF GOD. PEOPLE HAVE A TENNCY TO BLAME EVERYTHG ON GOD.” IN 2005, SYLVTER WAS DUCTED TO THE DANCE MIC HALL OF FAME FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AS AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}21. HOLLY JOHNSON (FRANKIE GO TO HOLLYWOOD){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FRANKIE GO TO HOLLYWOOD WERE A BRISH DANCE-POP BAND POPULAR THE MID 1980’S MOST NOTABLE FOR THEIR BUT SGLE “RELAX (TAKE IT EASY)” WHICH SPENT FIVE NSECUTIVE WEEKS AT THE TOP OF THE UK SGL CHART AND BEME THE 7TH BT SELLG UK SGLE OF ALL TIME. THEIR FOLLOW-UP HS “TWO TRIB” AND “THE POWER OF LOVE” ALSO CLIMBED THE UK CHARTS TO NO. 1, MAKG FGTH THE SEND ACT UK HISTORY TO HAVE THEIR FIRST THREE SGL REACH NO. 1. HOLLY JOHNSON LED ON VOLS AND WAS AT ONE TIME MORED TO BE DATG BACK UP VOLIST PL RUTHERFORD. AFTER SPLTG OM FGTH, JOHNSON WENT ON TO PURSUE A SOLO REER AND RELEASED HIS PLATUM SELLG NUMBER ONE ALBUM BLAST THAT SPAWNED FOUR H SGL. IN 1991 JOHNSON LEARNED HE WAS HIV-POSIVE AND 1994 RELEASED HIS CRILLY ACCLAIMED TOBGRAPHY, A BONE MY FLUTE. HE IS CURRENTLY WORKG ON NEW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}20. ROB HALFORD (JUDAS PREIST){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHO SAYS A GAY MAN N’T WEAR LEATHER AND SCREAM HEAVY METAL VOLS? OBVLY SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER HEARD OF ROB HALFORD. WHETHER AS THE LEAD SGER OF GRAMMY-AWARD WNG ROCK BAND JUDAS PRIT, OR HIS OWN BAND, HALFORD, HIS FOUR-OCTAVE RANGE AND THE STRENGTH OF HIS VOICE GAVE RISE TO HIS MONIKER “METAL GOD.” CONSIRED ONE OF THE MOST NSISTENTLY POWERFUL SGERS ROCK, HALFORD HAS GIVEN SUCH HS AS “HEADG OUT TO THE HIGHWAY” AND “YOU’VE GOT ANOTHER THG COMG.” AS HE STTS ACROSS THE STAGE, BALD HEAD GLEAMG AND TATTOOS STARK AGAST HIS SK, HE OWNS EVERY MUTE AND EVERY FAN THAT WATCH. ALTHOUGH HE’S BEEN A PART OF THE MIC SCENE SCE THE 70’S, HE DIDN’T E OUT UNTIL 1998 AN MTV TERVIEW, WHICH HE SAID, “I THK THAT MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT I’VE BEEN A GAY MAN ALL OF MY LIFE, AND ’S ONLY BEEN RECENT TIM ’S AN ISSUE I FEEL FORTABLE TO ADDRS… AND THIS IS THE MOMENT TO DISCS .”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}19. MARK FEEHILY (WTLIFE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS A MEMBER OF IRISH POP GROUP WTLIFE, MARK FEEHILY IS DISTGUISHED FOR HIS RICH, SOULFUL VOICE, WHICH N BE HEARD ON EVERY SONG. HE SHAR THE ROLE OF LEAD VOLIST ALONGSI SHANE FILAN. WTLIFE IS THE ONLY GROUP BRISH OR IRISH HISTORY TO HAVE THEIR FIRST SEVEN SGL GO STRAIGHT TO NO. 1, AND THEY HAVE SOLD OVER 44 LN RERDS WORLDWI. ORIGALLY SIGNED BY SIMON COWELL 1998, WTLIFE ARE THE 2ND BIGGT SELLG ARTIST THE UK (BEHD ROBBIE WILLIAMS) AND “BIGGT SELLG BAND OF THE ” (BEATG COLDPLAY) WH 11 LN ALBUM SAL OM 2000-2010. IN 2005 FEEHILY ME OUT TO THE BRISH TABLOID THE SUN, ANNOUNCG HE HAD BEEN A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH KEV MCDAID, A MEMBER OF THE BRISH BOY BAND V. IN THE TERVIEW, FEEHILY SAID, “MY LIFE HAS GOT UMPTEEN TIM BETTER… I FEEL SO MUCH HAPPIER AND AT EASE. IT’S THE BT THG I’VE EVER DONE.” FEEHILY AND MCDAID HAVE BEEN DATG SCE 2005 AND ON JANUARY 28, 2010 THE TWO GOT ENGAGED. FEEHILY TOLD THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD: “THROUGH THE YEARS OF GETTG TO THE POT WHERE I WANTED TO E OUT, I HAD TO GO THROUGH EVERY KD OF EMOTN, BUT I N HONTLY SAY THAT THE DAY BEFORE I ME OUT, I DIDN’T RE WHAT THE REACTN WAS GOG TO BE. THAT WAS THE HARST POT TO GET TO.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}18. STEPHEN GATELY (BOYZONE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1993 IRISH NATIVE STEPHEN GATELY JOED THE BOY BAND BOYZONE AS ONE OF TWO LEAD VOLISTS. BOYZONE WENT ON TO PRODUCE FOUR STUD ALBUMS, ALL OF WHICH H NO. 1 THE UNED KGDOM. WH BOYZONE, GATELY HAD A RERD-BREAKG 16 NSECUTIVE SGL ENTER THE UK’S TOP FIVE SGL CHART. IN A 1999 TERVIEW WH THE SUN MAGAZEGATELY BEME THE FIRST BOYBAND MEMBER EVER TO PUBLICLY E OUT. IN 2000, AFTER THE BAND’S IAL BREAKUP, GATELY RELEASED A SOLO ALBUM, WHICH PRODUCED THREE UK H SGL CLUDG “NEW BEGNG.” IN 2003, WHILE VATNG LAS VEGAS, GATELY WED LONGTIME BOYIEND ANDREW COWL. WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THE UK THE TWO LEGALIZED THEIR RELATNSHIP WH A CIVIL PARTNERSHIP HELD LONDON. IN 2008 BOYZONE REGROUPED. IN THEIR FAL MIC VIO GATELY PLAYED THE ROLE OF A GAY UPLE, ANOTHER FIRST FOR A BOYBAND. TRAGILLY ON OCTOBER 10, 2009 MAJOR, SPA, AT AN APARTMENT HE OWNED WH HIS PARTNER COWL, GATELY WAS DISVERED AD DUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED HEART {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}17. RUF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CANADIAN-AMERIN SGER/SONGWRER RUF WAWRIGHT WAS BORN TO AN EXTREMELY TALENTED FAY. HIS PARENTS ARE FOLK SGER KATE MCGARRIGLE AND ACTOR LOUDON WAWRIGHT III AND HIS SISTER IS THE FOLK-ROCK SGER/SONGWRER MARTHA WAWRIGHT. AT AN EARLY AGE RUF VELOPED A LOVE FOR OPERA AND A PROCLIVY FOR SONGWRG. HE LEARNED TO PLAY BOTH THE PIANO AND GUAR AND VELOPED HIS OWN MIL STYLE LLED “POPERA” OR “BAROQUE POP.” IN 1998 WAWRIGHT RELEASED HIS FIRST STUD ALBUM, RUF WAWRIGHT, WHICH RECEIVED CRIL ACCLAIM. ROLLG STONE MAGAZE REGNIZED AS ONE OF THE BT ALBUMS OF THE YEAR AND NAMED THE SGER THE “BT NEW ARTIST” OF 1998. HIS FOLLOW UP 2001 RELEASE POS EARNED WAWRIGHT HIS SEND GLAAD MEDIA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDG MIC ALBUM AND A JUNO AWARD FOR BT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM. IN JUNE 2007, WAWRIGHT PARTICIPATED THE LOGO SPONSORED, MULTI-ARTIST TE COLORS TOUR, ALONGSI CYNDI LPER, THE INDIGO GIRLS, ERASURE AND OTHERS. IN 2007, WAWRIGHT PERFORMED AT CARNEGIE HALL THE ENTIRE JUDY GARLAND NCERT GARLAND FAMOLY PERFORMED THERE 1961. THE ALBUM FOR THE NCERT, APTLY TLED RUF DO JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL, WAS NOMATED FOR A 2009 GRAMMY AWARD FOR BT TRADNAL POP VOL ALBUM. WAWRIGHT IS ONE OF THE FIRST ARTISTS TO BEG HIS REER OPENLY GAY. HE ME OUT TO HIS FAY AS A TEENAGER, WHO HE SAYS DID NOT TAKE SO WELL TO THE NEWS IALLY, “MOTHER AND FATHER ULD NOT HANDLE ME BEG GAY. WE NEVER TALKED ABOUT REALLY.” IN JANUARY 2010 WAWRIGHT’S MOTHER SADLY LOST HER BATTLE TO NCER. IN APRIL 2010, WAWRIGHT PUBLICLY VOICED HIS OPN FAVOR OF LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT DUE TO HIS SIRE TO MARRY HIS PARTNER OF FIVE YEARS, GERMAN ARTS ADMISTRATOR JöRN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}16. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RUPL ANDRE CHARL, BT KNOWN BY HIS DRAG NAME RUPL, IS AN AMERIN ACTOR, MOL AND SGER/SONGWRER WHO ROSE TO FAME THE 1990S APPEARG ON NUMERO TELEVISN PROGRAMS, FILMS AND ALBUMS. AS A PNEER FOR DRAG PERFORMANCE ARTISTS, RUPL OPENED MDS AND GENERATED DISCSNS ON THE TABOO SUBJECT OF CROSSDRSG AND TRANSEXUALY. RUPL GOT HIS START THE EARLY 90’S WORKG THE ATLANTA AND NEW YORK CLUB SCEN. IN 1993 RUPL RERD THE DANCE/HOE H “SUPERMOL (YOU BETTER WORK)” WHICH AMIDST THE AGE OF NIRVANA AND SMASHG PUMPKS WAS AN UNEXPECTED SUCCS ON MTV. THE SONG PEAKED AT NO. 2 ON BILLBOARD’S U.S. DANCE CHARTS AND HIS FOLLOW UP SGL “BACK TO MY ROOTS” AND “DON’T GO BREAKG MY HEART,” A DUET WH ELTON JOHN, WENT ON TO LE THE DANCE AND SGL CHARTS. IN 1996 RUPL HOSTED HIS OWN SHOW ON VH1 LLED THE RUPL SHOW WHERE HE TERVIEWED CELEBRI AND MIL ACTS. HE HAS SCE RELEASED 7 STUD ALBUMS, MOST RECENTLY THE 2008 ALBUM CHAMPN THAT FEATUR THE ANTHEMS “COVER GIRL” AND “JEALO OF MY BOOGIE” FEATURED ON HIS LOGO REALY PETN SHOW RUPL’S DRAG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}15. WILL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE THE REERS OF KELLY CLARKSON, CARRIE UNRWOOD, OR ADAM LAMBERT TOOK OFF, THERE WAS WILL YOUNG. IN FEBARY 2002, YOUNG ROSE TO FAME AS THE WNER OF THE BRISH TELEVISN TALENT NTT POP IDOL, MAKG HIM THE FIRST WNER EVER OF THE NOW WORLDWI IDOL ANCHISE. YOUNG’S FIRST POST-IDOL SGLE WAS A VER OF WTLIFE’S “EVERGREEN,” WHICH WENT ON TO BEE ONE OF THE FASTT SELLG SGL UK HISTORY AND ONE OF THE BIGGT SELLG SGL OF THE 2000S, WH OVER 1.8 LN PI SOLD. IN MARCH 2002, RIGHT AT THE BEGNG OF YOUNG’S REER, HE PUBLICLY ME OUT TO NEWS OF THE WORLD STATG, “I FEEL ’S TIME TO TELL MY FANS I’M GAY… FOR ME ’S NORMAL AND NOTHG TO BE ASHAMED ABOUT. I’M GAY AND I’M FORTABLE WH THAT. I REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FS IS ABOUT.” YOUNG BEME ONE OF THE FIRST POP ARTISTS TO BEG HIS REER OUT OF THE CLOSET, AND HIS OPENNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY PROVED NOT TO E ANY RIPPL WHATSOEVER. IN 2003, YOUNG WON HIS FIRST BRIT AWARD AS BT BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST FOR THE RELEASE OF HIS BUT ALBUM FROM NOW ON. YOUNG’S SEND ALBUM FRIDAY’S CHILD PRODUCED THE H “YOUR GAME” WHICH EARNED HIM HIS SEND BRIT AWARD 2005. YOUNG HAS SCE TABLISHED HIMSELF AS FAR MORE THAN ANOTHER REALY TELEVISN SHOW WNER, SELLG OVER EIGHT LN RERDS OM HIS FOUR MULTI-PLATUM STUD ALBUMS, WH FOUR NUMBER ONE SGL, AND TWICE VOTED AS THE U.K.’S FAVORE ARTIST OF ALL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}14. THE MEN OF SCISSOR SISTERS (JAKE SHEARS, BABYDADDY & DEL MARQUIS){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2000, JAKE SHEARS MET STT “BABYDADDY” HOFFMAN WHILE SHEARS WAS VISG A MUTUAL IEND KENTUCKY. THE TWO H OFF AND SOON MOVED TO NEW YORK CY WHERE THE OPENLY GAY DUO BEME THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE AMERIN GLAM-ROCK BAND SCISSOR SISTERS. AT THE TIME, THE BAND PERFORMED AT UNRGROUND CLUBS BROOKLYN AND THE LOWER EAST SI, WH A BATN OF BABYDADDY’S MIL POSN AND SHEARS’ VOLS. SHEARS MET DEREK “DEL MARQUIS” GEN WHILE THE TWO WORKED AT THE IC GUYS CLUB, WHERE SHEARS WAS STRIPPG. DEL MARQUIS JOED THE GROUP AS LEAD GUARIST. THE BAND FIRST GARNERED ATTENTN WH THE RELEASE OF THEIR VER OF PK FLOYD’S “COMFORTABLY NUMB”, WHICH REACHED NO. 10 ON THE UK SGL CHARTS. THEIR BUT ALBUM SCISSOR SISTERS BEME THE BT SELLG ALBUM OF 2004 THE UK. ON THEIR SEND STUD ALBUM TAH DAH, ONE OF THE BAND’S DREAMS WAS FULFILLED - SIR ELTON JOHN LLABORATED AS PIANIST AND -WRER FOR THEIR H “I DON’T FEEL LIKE DANC’,” WHICH REACHED NO. 1 ON THE UK, ATRALIAN AND EUROPEAN CHARTS, AND BEME THE BAND’S BIGGT H TO DATE. IN JUNE 2010, SCISSOR SISTERS RELEASED THEIR THIRD AND LATT ALBUM NIGHT WORK WHICH TOOK A SHIFT TOWARDS A MORE CLUB-ORIENTED SOUND. IN 2004, SHEARS, BABYDADDY, AND DEL MARQUIS WERE HONORED ON OUT MAGAZE’S ANNUAL LIST OF THE 100 MOST INTRIGUG GAY PEOPLE OF THE YEAR. SHEARS AND BABYDADDY -WROTE AND PRODUCED KYLIE MOGUE’S POPULAR H “I BELIEVE IN YOU.” WHILE SHEARS HAS GARNERED THE MOST AMOUNT OF ATTENTN THE BAND WH A STRG OF GAY MAGAZE VERS CLUDG OUT, THE ADVOTE, ATTU, BUTT, AND TêTU, IS BABYDADDY WHO HAS ADVERTENTLY BEE A SEX SYMBOL WH BEAR ADMIRERS. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THIS STAT STATG, “JAKE GETS A LOT OF ATTENTN JT BY VIRTUE OF BEG THE LEAD SGER, BUT WHEN BOYS WANT A LTLE BEEF, THEY E TO ME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}13. LANCE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS THE BASS SGER FOR ‘N SYNC, LANCE BASS WAS A PART OF THE BOY BAND CRAZE OF THE LATE 90’S AND EARLY 2000’S. FOR FIVE YEARS, BASS AND ‘N SYNC RO THE WAVE WH HS LIKE “I WANT YOU BACK,” “BYE BYE BYE” AND “NO STRGS ATTACHED” UNTIL 2002 WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED A “HIAT” WHILE FELLOW ‘N SYNC MEMBERS JT TIMBERLAKE AND JC CHASEZ WENT OUT TO WORK ON SOLO REERS. ALTHOUGH ‘N SYNC HAS NEVER RNED, BASS HAS WORKED AS AN ACTOR FILMS SUCH AS I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY AND ZOOLANR, AND HAS APPEARED ON TELEVISN SUCH AS SEASON 7 OF DANCG WH THE STARS. BASS ME OUT PUBLICLY ON THE VER OF PEOPLE MAGAZE JULY 2006 AFTER MONTHS OF SPECULATN OM CELEBRY BLOG S POSTG EMS ABOUT BASS’S ORIENTATN SCE SEPTEMBER 2005. BASS STATED TO PEOPLE “THE THG IS, I’M NOT ASHAMED – THAT’S THE ONE THG I WANT TO SAY. I DON’T THK ’S WRONG, I’M NOT VASTATED GOG THROUGH THIS. I’M MORE LIBERATED AND HAPPY THAN I’VE BEEN MY WHOLE LIFE. I’M JT HAPPY.” THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN AWARD BASS WH THE VISIBILY AWARD OCT 2006 STATG “BASS IS THE BIGGT MIC STAR SCE MELISSA ETHERIDGE TO E OUT.” BASS HAS BEEN ACTIVE THE LGBT MUNY EVER SCE, SUPPORTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AND TOLERANCE, FUNDRAISG FOR THE GAY, LBIAN AND STRAIGHT EDUTN WORK, AND PUBLISHG HIS TOBGRAPHY OUT OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}12. JIMMY SOMERVILLE (BRONSKI BEAT){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POPULAR BRISH SYNTHPOP TR, BRONSKI BEAT, ACHIEVED WISPREAD SUCCS THE MID 1980S FOR THEIR H “SMALLTOWN BOY,” WHICH TOLD THE TALE OF A BOY WHOSE FAY ST HIM AWAY FOR BEG GAY. “SMALLTOWN BOY” PEAKED AT NO. 3 THE UK SGL CHART AND THE MIC VIO FOR THE SONG SHOWED LEAD SGER JIMMY SOMERVILLE EAGERLY TRYG TO MAKE IENDS A SWIMMG POOL, THEN BEG ATTACKED BY AN ANTI-GAY GANG, BEG BROUGHT HOME TO HIS FAY BY THE POLICE AND ULTIMATELY GETTG KICKED OUT OF HIS HOME FOR BEG GAY. INCLUDG SOMERVILLE, THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BRONSKI BEAT, STEVE BRONSKI AND LARRY STEBACHAEK, WERE ALL OPENLY GAY, AND THEIR SONGS OFTEN REFLECTED THIS, NTAG POLIL MENTARY ABOUT GAY ISSU. ALTHOUGH MANY OTHER GROUPS AT THIS TIME HAD AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER, BRONSKI BEAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO ADDRS THE REAL ISSU AND STGGL OF THE GAY MUNY. SOMERVILLE LEFT BRONSKI BEAT 1985 AND WENT ON TO HAVE SUCCS AS THE LEAD SGER OF THE COMMUNARDS AND ALSO AS A SOLO ARTIST. THE GROUP DID A RNN NCERT 1987 FOR INTERNATNAL AIDS DAY. IN 1999, SOMERVILLE PERFORMED ALONGSI BOY GEE, GEE MICHAEL AND ELTON JOHN AT THE STONEWALL “EQUALY SHOW” LONDON. SOMERVILLE’S HONTY AS AN OPENLY GAY SGER AND PERFORMER NEVER HURT HIS ALBUM SAL, AND HE HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR MANY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}11. ANDY BELL (ERASURE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1985 ANDY BELL BEME THE LEAD SGER OF ENGLISH SYNTH-POP DUO ERASURE WHEN HE RPOND TO A NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT BY LYRICIST/KEYBOARDIST AND FOUNDG MEMBER OF DEPECHE MO, VCE CLARKE. CLARKE HAD RECENTLY PARTED OM DEPECHE MO AND WAS LOOKG FOR A VOLIST FOR A NEW PROJECT. INIALLY THE BAND STGGLED TO FD SUCCS, BUT WAS THEIR FOURTH SGLE “SOMETIM” THAT BROUGHT THEM MAJOR REGNN THE UK AND OM 1986 TO 2007, ERASURE ACHIEVED 34 TOP 40 HS THE UK. THEIR SGL “A LTLE RPECT,” “CHAS OF LOVE,” AND “ALWAYS” WERE MAJOR HS THE USA. TO DATE THE BAND HAS SOLD OVER 25 LN ALBUMS WORLDWI. IN DECEMBER 2004, BELL PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS HIV-POSIVE, SOMETHG HE SAID HE HAS KNOWN SCE JUNE 1998 WHEN HE ME DOWN WH A SE OF PNMONIA. HE HAS SCE TAKEN PART NUMERO CHARY RERDGS TO FUND MONEY FOR AIDS AND HIV TN AND REARCH. IN 2005 BELL RELEASED HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM ELECTRIC BLUE LLABORATG WH JAKE SHEARS OF SCISSOR SISTERS. BELL PARTICIPATED BOTH THE 2007 AND 2008 TE COLORS TOURS. IN JUNE 2010, BELL RELEASED HIS SEND SOLO ALBUM, NON-STOP. BELL HAS BEEN TOGETHER WH HIS PARTNER PL HICKEY FOR OVER 20 {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}10. ADAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GIFTED WH A MULTI-OCTAVE RANGE, CLASSIL GOOD LOOKS AND A PENCHANT FOR EYELER AND NAIL POLISH, ADAM LAMBERT BURST TO THE PUBLIC’S EYE ON SEASON EIGHT OF AMERIN IDOL. ALTHOUGH HE WORKED SEVERAL THEATER PRODUCTNS, CLUDG WICKED AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WAS A ONT MAN FOR THE BAND THE CIZEN VE AND PERFORMED AT THE UPRIGHT CABARET AND THE ZODIAC SHOW, HE DIDN’T ACTUALLY ACQUIRE A FAN-BASE UNTIL HE PETED ON THE POPULAR REALY PETN. EARLY ON DURG HIS TIME ON AMERIN IDOL, PICTUR OF HIM AND HIS EX-BOYIEND KISSG WERE RELEASED ON THE INTER. LAMBERT NEHER NFIRMED NOR NIED HIS SEXUALY, CHOOSG STEAD TO SIMPLY CLARE, “I HAVE NOTHG TO HI….I AM WHO I AM.” AFTER FISHG AS THE NNER-UP ON IDOL, ADAM STATED PUBLICLY TO ROLLG STONE MAGAZE THAT, “ SHOULD E AS NO SURPRISE THAT I AM GAY.” HE IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MASTREAM POP ARTIST TO LNCH HIS REER ON A MAJOR LABEL. HIS ALBUM, “FOR YOUR ENTERTAMENT” BUTED ON THE BILLBOARD 200 AT NO. 3, AND HS SUCH AS “WHATAYA WANT FROM ME” AND “IF I HAD YOU” HAVE BEEN THE TOP 20 THE USA AND NO. 1 UNTRI AROUND THE WORLD. AFTER AN ALMOST PLETELY SOLD-OUT HEADLG TOUR OF THE UNED STAT, HE VAD ATRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, JAPAN, MALAYSIA, THE PHILIPP AND MANY OTHER TERNATNAL CI BEFORE HEADG TO EUROPE. EXPECT A FOLLOW-UP ALBUM 2011 AND ANOTHER WORLD TOUR. LAMBERT’S STAR HAS JT STARTED TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}9. RICKY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PUERTO RIN POP SGER RICKY MART GOT HIS START AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 13 AS A MEMBER OF THE LAT BOY BAND MENUDO. AFTER THE SUCCS OF MENUDO, MART WENT SOLO RELEASG HIS SELF-TLED SPANISH-LANGUAGE BUT ALBUM RICKY MART 1991. IN 1994 MART MOVED TO LOS ANGEL AND LAND A ROLE ON THE SOAP OPERA GENERAL HOSPAL AS BARTENR AND SGER MIGUEL MOREZ. AT THIS TIME MART NTUED TO FOC ON HIS MIC AND RELEASED A THIRD AND HIGHLY SUCCSFUL ALBUM ENTLED A MED VIVIR WH THE TRACK “MARIA” CHARTG WORLDWI. AFTER SEVERAL YEARS AS A MAJOR TERNATNAL STAR MALY SPANISH-SPEAKG UNTRI, MART CID TO TAKE ON THE ONE PLACE WHERE HE STILL HAD LIMED REGNN - THE UNED STAT. AT THE 1999 GRAMMY AWARDS, MART PERFORMED A SGLE OFF HIS FIRST ENGLISH ALBUM, SELF-TLED RICKY MART, WHICH SOON HAD THE WHOLE WORLD SGG “LIV’ LA VIDA LO.” TO DATE MART HAS SOLD OVER 60 LN ALBUMS WORLDWI. AFTER YEARS OF PUBLIC CURSY ABOUT MART’S SEXUALY, HE PUBLICLY ME OUT OVER TWTER ON MARCH 29, 2010 STATG “I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT I AM A FORTUNATE HOMOSEXUAL MAN. I AM VERY BLSED TO BE WHO I AM.” IN REGARDS TO HIS RECENT G OUT, MART STATED ON LARRY KG LIVE, “IF I’D KNOWN HOW GOOD WAS GOG TO FEEL, I WOULD HAVE DONE 10 YEARS AGO.” MART IS THE FATHER BY WAY OF A SURROGATE MOTHER TO TW BOYS, MATTEO AND VALENTO. HE IS ALSO THE FOUNR OF THE NON-PROF CHARY ANIZATN RICKY MART FOUNDATN, WHICH ADVOT FOR THE WELL BEG OF CHILDREN AROUND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}8. THE MEN OF THE B-52S (RICKY WILSON, FRED SCHNEIR & KEH STRICKLAND){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FRED SCHNEIR, RICKY WILSON, AND KEH STRICKLAND, ALL OPENLY GAY, ALONG WH CDY WILSON AND KATE PIERSON, MAKE UP THE AMERIN NEW WAVE BAND THE B-52S, KNOWN FOR THEIR POSIVE AND ENTHIASTIC, SLIGHTLY WACKY, TAKE ON THE DANCE AND SURF MIC GENRE POPULAR THE LATE ‘70S. THEY CRAFTED THEIR OWN “GUYS VS GALS” LL AND RPONSE STYLE AND ALONG WH THEIR THRIFT-STORE CHIC BEME FAMO EVERYWHERE FOR HS LIKE “ROCK LOBSTER” AND “LOVE SHACK.” THE GROUP FORMED 1977 WHEN VOLIST CDY AND HER BROTHER, GUARIST, RICKY WILSON PERFORMED AN IMPROMPTU JAM SSN WH KEYBOARD AND VOLIST PIERSON, DMMER STRICKLAND AND WBELL PLAYER AND VOLIST SCHNEIR AT A CHE RTRANT. THEY CHOSE THEIR NAME OM A BEEHIVE HAIRDO THAT REMBLED THE NOSE OF AN AIRPLANE WH THE SAME NAME. THEIR FIRST SGLE “ROCK LOBSTER” WAS AN UNRGROUND SUCCS AND SOON GOT THEM SIGNED TO WARNER BROS. DURG THE LATE ‘70S AND EARLY ‘80S THEY CHURNED OUT A STRG OF HS LIKE “PLA CLAIRE" AND “PRIVATE IDAHO.” WHILE RERDG THEIR THIRD ALBUM 1985, GUARIST RICKY WILSON, WHO HAD BEEN KEEPG HIS ILLNS A SECRET OM HIS BAND MEMBERS, DIED OM AIDS/HIV-RELATED HEALTH PLITNS AT THE AGE OF 32, PROMPTG A HIAT OM THEIR MIL REER. WHEN THE BAND REGROUPED, STRICKLAND CID TO SWCH OM DMS TO GUAR TO KEEP WILSON’S TRAMARK SOUND ALIVE. IN 1989 THEY RELEASED THEIR MOST SUCCSFUL ALBUM TO DATE, COSMIC THG. THE SGLE “LOVE SHACK” BEME THEIR FIRST TOP 40 H ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100, ULTIMATELY REACHG NO. 3 NOVEMBER 1989. THEIR FOLLOW-UP SGLE “ROAM” REACHED THE SAME NUMBER MARCH 1990. THAT YEAR THEY WON THE MTV MIC AWARD FOR BT GROUP VIO AND BT ART DIRECTN. AS FOR THEIR SEXUALI, SCHNIER RELLS G OUT TO HIS MOTHER AT AN EARLY AGE, SHE RPOND “OH I KNOW, FREDDIE” AND NTUED VACUUMG. IN OCTOBER 2010, SCHNIER RELEASED A CHRISTMAS ALBUM DTATN… CHRISTMAS! WH HIS SI PROJECT THE SUPERNS. STRICKLAND ME OUT A 1992 TERVIEW OF Q MAGAZE, STATG, “IT WAS GREAT. NOTHG CHANGED, BUT I FELT WAS IMPORTANT TO JT SAY .” STRICKLAND AND HIS PARTNER MARK PRENTLY SHARE A HOME KEY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}7. NEIL TENNANT (PET SHOP BOYS){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ENGLISH MICIAN NEIL TENNANT MAK UP ONE HALF OF ELECTRONIC DANCE DUO PET SHOP BOYS. TENNANT PROVIS MA VOLS, KEYBOARDS, AND GUAR. IN A 1994 TERVIEW WH THE UK GAY LIFTYLE MAGAZE ATTU, TENNANT OFFICIALLY ME OUT. PET SHOP BOYS HAVE SOLD OVER 100 LN RERDS WORLDWI AND ARE ONE OF THE BT-SELLG MIL GROUPS THE WORLD. THE GROUP IS LISTED AS THE MOST SUCCSFUL DUO UK MIC HISTORY THE GUNS BOOK OF WORLD RERDS. THEY HAVE ACHIEVED 42 TOP 30 SGL AND 22 TOP 10 HS ON THE UK SGL CHART. THEIR HS “WT END GIRLS,” “IT’S A S,” “ALWAYS ON MY MD” AND “HEART” HAVE ALL REACHED NO.1. TENNANT WAS THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR RUF WAWRIGHT’S 2007 ALBUM RELEASE THE STARS. IN 2009 TENNANT RECEIVED THE BRIT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDG CONTRIBUTN TO BRISH MIC. STILL GOG STRONG, THE PET SHOP BOYS’ 2009 ALBUM Y REACHED NO. 4 ON THE UK ALBUM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}6. GEE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH HS SUCH AS “CARELS WHISPER” AND “WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO,” WHAM! BLASTED TO THE 1980’S WH STYLE. GEE MICHAEL AND HIS HIGH SCHOOL PAL ANDREW RIDGELEY FORMED THE DUO KNOWN AS WHAM! 1981. WHEN THEY BROKE UP 1986, MICHAEL CLAIMED HIS REASON WAS TO CREATE A MORE SOPHISTITED SOUND TO TARGET A NEW DIENCE OVER WHAM!’S PRIMARILY TEENAGE FAN-BASE. MICHAEL’S FIRST SGLE AS A SOLO ARTIST WAS THE ARETHA FRANKL DUET “I KNEW YOU WERE WAG (FOR ME)” WHICH EARNED THEM BOTH A GRAMMY W 1998 FOR BT R&B PERFORMANCE. MICHAEL NTUED TO ADD HS SUCH AS “FAH” “FREEDOM ’90,” AND “I WANT YOUR SEX” TO HIS ALREADY IMPRSIVE RUME, MAKG THE STAR AN TERNATNAL SEX SYMBOL. ALTHOUGH HE WAS Y ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, HE WAS OUTTED BY THE LOS ANGEL POLICE 1998 WHEN HE WAS ARRTED FOR ENGAGG “LEWD ACTS” A PUBLIC RTROOM. IN A 2007 TERVIEW WH INPENNT NEWS, MICHAEL ADMTED HE HID THE FACT HE WAS GAY FOR FEAR OF THE AFFECT MIGHT HAVE ON HIS MOTHER. SCE 1996, MICHAEL HAS BEEN A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH BSMAN KENNY GOSS, WHO OWNS THE GOSS GALLERY DALLAS, TX. MICHAEL NTRIBUTED ALL OF THE PROCEEDS OM HIS DUET WH ELTON JOHN, “DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME” TO 10 DIFFERENT CHARI FOR CHILDREN, AIDS AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}5. BOY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS PART OF THE BRISH NEW ROMANTICS MOVEMENT OF THE 1980’S, THE ANDROGYNO BOY GEE, ONT MAN FOR CULTURE CLUB, GAVE HS SUCH AS “DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME?,” “KARMA CHAMELEON” AND “TIME (CLOCK OF THE HEART).” ALTHOUGH HE STGGLED WH HERO ADDICTN AND A BREAKUP WH FELLOW CULTURE CLUB DMMER JON MOSS (THEIRS WAS A SECRET RELATNSHIP DUE TO MOSS’ DISFORT WH A SAME-SEX PARTNER), HE HAS HAD SOME HIGH POTS HIS REER SCE LEAVG CULTURE CLUB. HE’S TABLISHED HIMSELF AS A SUCCSFUL DJ LONDON’S CLUB SCENE, STARTED A CLOTHG LE LLED “B-,” PENNED TRACKS FOR THE BEACH BOYS, CHARLOTTE CHURCH AND KYLIE MOGUE, AND HAS HAD SEVERAL SOLO HS, CLUDG “THE CRYG GAME” AND “AMAZG GRACE.” TALK OF A CULTURE CLUB RNN 2012 IS OFFICIAL AND GEE SAYS, “IT’S GOG TO BE GREAT FUN. IF WE DON’T DO NOW, WE’LL DO WHEN WE’RE 60 AND THAT WOULD BE TRAGIC.” GEE HELPED GIVE ANDROGYNY AN TERNATNAL STAGE AND OFTEN PLAYED Y ON HIS SEXUAL NATURE, ONCE FAMOLY STATG HE PREFERRED A “NICE CUP OF TEA” TO SEX. HE HAS REMAED A NSTANT FIGURE THE PUBLIC EYE AND HAS PENNED NUMERO SONGS FOCG ON THE TRATNS OF THE EQUALI FOR GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}4. THE VILLAGE PEOPLE (ALEXANR BRILEY, RANDY JON, FELIPE ROSE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1977 OPENLY GAY FRENCH MIC PRODUCER JACQU MORALI WAS VISG A NEW YORK CY GAY BAR, WHEN HE SPOTTED FELIPE ROSE WORKG AS A GO-GO DANCER DRSED FULL NATIVE AMERIN HEADDRS AND ATTIRE. MORALI WAS CURRENTLY WORKG WH THE TALENTED SGER VICTOR WILLIS, WHOM HE DUBBED “THE YOUNG MAN WH THE BIG VOICE” AND AFTER SPOTTG ROSE, A LIGHT BULB WENT OFF MORALI’S HEAD AND HE POSTED AN AD A MIC TRA MAGAZE THAT READ: “MACHO TYP WANTED: MT DANCE AND HAVE A MOTACHE.” ALONG WH WILLIS (THE POLICE OFFICER AND HETEROSEXUAL) AND ROSE (THE NATIVE AMERIN, OPENLY GAY), MORALI BROUGHT ON RANDY JON (THE WBOY, OPENLY GAY), GLEN HUGH (THE BIKER, HETEROSEXUAL), DAVID HODO (THE NSTCTN WORKER, HETEROSEXUAL), AND ALEX BRILEY (THE SOLDIER, OPENLY GAY). HOPG TO TARGET GAY MEN’S FANTASI BY PICTG POPULAR GAY FANTASY PERSONAS, MORALI CREATED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, A NAME HE CHOSE REFERENCE TO NEW YORK CY’S GREENWICH VILLAGE, WHICH AT THE TIME WAS KNOWN FOR S SUBSTANTIAL GAY POPULATN. AS A GROUP, THE VILLAGE PEOPLE’S CHURNED OUT HS LIKE “GO WT,” “IN THE NAVY,” AND “MACHO MAN,” WHICH PUT THEM ON THE CHARTS AND BROUGHT THEM MASTREAM ATTENTN, BUT WAS THEIR CLASSIC H “Y.M.C.A.” THAT MA THEM ONE OF THE MOST SUCCSFUL GROUPS OF THE DIS ERA, BEG THE FIRST GAY GROUP TO HAVE A NO. 1 H THE UK (THE SEND BEG FRANKIE GO TO HOLLYWOOD’S “RELAX”). WOMEN LOVED THEM FOR THE “MEN--UNIFORM” FANTASY THEY FULFILLED, STRAIGHT MEN APPRECIATED THE AMERINA THEM THEIR MIC, AND GAY MEN HERALD THEM FOR THEIR VISIBILY AND THE URAGE THEY GAVE OTHERS TO BE OPENLY GAY. IN REGARDS TO THEIR POSIVE IMPACT ON HELPG GAY YOUTH E OUT, ROSE ONCE TOLD THE HOUR, A MONTREAL NEWSPAPER “PEOPLE ALWAYS TELL ME, ‘YOU HELPED ME E OUT.’ I ALWAYS REPLY, ‘YOU DID THAT ON YOUR OWN.’.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}3. MICHAEL STIPE (R.E.M.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS THE LEAD SGER FOR R.E.M., MICHAEL STIPE HAS BEEN A PNEER FOR THE ALTERNATIVE ROCK GENRE AND HAS PLAYED A PART AS ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL ROCK BANDS OF THE 1980S AND ‘90S. WH CLASSIC HS LIKE “LOSG MY RELIGN,” “IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT,” “THE ONE I LOVE,” “MAN ON THE MOON” AND “EVERYBODY HURTS,” STIPE’S UNIQUE “MUMBLG” STYLE OF SGG AND HIS SURREAL SONGWRG ABILY LED TO R.E.M.’S DUCTN TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 2007. ESTABLISHED ATHENS, GEIA 1980, R.E.M.’S BUT ALBUM MURMUR (RELEASED 1983) RECEIVED CRIL ACCLAIM, EVEN BEATG MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR THE ROLLG STONE CRICS POLL. FOR THE NEXT , R.E.M. WENT ON TO RELEASE A STRG OF SUCCSFUL ALBUMS WH CHART TOPPG HS. IN 1996, THE GROUP SIGNED A REPORTED $80 LN RERDG NTRACT WH WARNER BROS. RERDS, THE LARGT OF S KD AT THAT POT HISTORY. RUMORS BEGAN SWIRLG ABOUT STIPE’S SEXUALY RPONSE TO A HAT HE WORE 1992 THAT SAID “WHE HOE STOP AIDS”. AT THE TIME STIPE WOULD ONLY MENT THAT HE WAS AN “EQUAL OPPORTUNY LECH” SAYG HE DID NOT LL HIMSELF GAY, STRAIGHT OR BISEXUAL. FALLY 2001, STIPE END YEARS OF SPECULATN BY G OUT TIME MAGAZE. HE DIVULGED THAT HE HAD BEEN A THREE-YEAR RELATNSHIP WH AN AMAZG MAN AND SCRIB HIMSELF AS A QUEER ARTIST. STIPE’S STATED HIS REASON FOR WAG SO LONG WAS THAT “ WAS SUPER PLITED FOR ME THE ‘80S. I WAS TOTALLY OPEN WH THE BAND AND MY FAY AND MY IENDS AND CERTALY THE PEOPLE I WAS SLEEPG WH. I THOUGHT WAS PRETTY OBV…I’D JT NEVER FELT STRONGLY ENOUGH ABOUT A PARTICULAR RELATNSHIP TO SAY ‘YEAH, HE’S MY BOYIEND, THAT IS WHAT IS’. NOW I REGNIZE THAT TO HAVE PUBLIC FIGUR BE VERY OPEN ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY HELPS SOME KID SOMEWHERE OUT THERE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}2. FREDDY MERCURY (QUEEN){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS THE ONT MAN AND SONGWRER FOR THE ROCK BAND QUEEN, FREDDIE MERCURY BELTED OUT H AFTER H, OM “WE ARE THE CHAMPNS” TO “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” TO “CRAZY LTLE THG CALLED LOVE.” HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST THEATRIL ROCK PERFORMERS, EXPLAG, “WE’RE THE CECIL B. DEMILLE OF ROCK AND ROLL, ALWAYS WANTG TO DO THGS BIGGER AND BETTER.” HE HAD A FOUR-OCTAVE RANGE, HE CRAFTED SONGS THAT SPOKE OF BOTH THE BRIGHT AND THE GRTY SIS OF LIFE, HE CLAIMED, “I AM AS GAY AS A DAFFODIL” AND AS DAVID BOWIE SAID, “I ALWAYS ADMIRED A MAN WHO WORE TIGHTS…HE WAS FELY A MAN WHO ULD HOLD AN DIENCE THE PALM OF HIS HAND.” FREDDIE MERCURY DIED OF AIDS RELATED PNMONIA ON NOVEMBER 24, 1991, ONE DAY AFTER PUBLICLY ANNOUNCG THAT HE HAD AIDS. ALTHOUGH HE WAS CRICIZED FOR KEEPG HIS ILLNS A SECRET, WAS PLETELY CHARACTER FOR THE TENSELY PRIVATE MAN. HE LEAV A LEGACY OF MIC THAT IS CELEBRATED AROUND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}1. ELTON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH MORE THAN 30 ALBUMS AND 250 LN RERDS SOLD, SIR ELTON JOHN IS ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED AND SUCCSFUL MIL ARTISTS THE WORLD. WH HIS FLAMBOYANT STYLE, RASPY VOICE AND AN UNERRG ABILY TO GET TO THE HEART OF EVERY SONG HE’S WRTEN, ELTON JOHN HAS BEEN REGNIZED WH GRAMMY AWARDS, A TONY AWARD AND EVEN AN AMY AWARD. INDUCTED TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 1994, HIS “CANDLE THE WD” IS THE BT SELLG SGLE OF ALL TIME. HE HAS BEEN WRG WH HIS CREATIVE PARTNER, BERNIE TP, SCE 1967. WHILE THEY HAVE LLABORATED ON OVER 30 ALBUMS, THEY ARE NEVER THE SAME ROOM WHEN WRG. ACTIVE THE FIGHT AGAST AIDS SCE THE 1980’S, HIS ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATN, STARTED 1992, HAS RAISED LNS OF DOLLARS TO FUND PROGRAMS FOR HIV/AIDS PREVENTN AS WELL AS PROVIDG SERVIC FOR PEOPLE LIVG WH HIV/AIDS. HE WAS KNIGHTED 1995 FOR HIS CHARABLE WORK BY QUEEN ELIZABETH AND WED HIS HBAND, DAVID FURNISH, 2005. ELTON SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SLOWG DOWN, EHER HIS QUT TO RAISE FUNDS AND AWARENS ABOUT HIV/AIDS OR HIS MISSN TO SHARE HIS CREDIBLE MIL TALENT WH THE WORLD. THIS YEAR SIR ELTON AND FURNISH BEME PARENTS VIA A SURROGATE AND HE RELEASED HIS 30TH STUD ALBUM THE UNN WH LEON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

* gay singer country *

” While Shears has garnered the most amount of attentn the band wh a strg of gay magaze vers cludg OUT, The Advote, Attu, Butt, and Têtu, is Babydaddy who has advertently bee a sex symbol wh bear admirers. Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat)Popular Brish synthpop tr, Bronski Beat, achieved wispread succs the mid 1980s for their h “Smalltown Boy, ” which told the tale of a boy whose fay st him away for beg gay.

MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’

Dallas native, untry sger Cameron Hawthorn his new vio, "Dancg In the Livg Room," to e out as gay. * gay singer country *

3 the UK Sgl Chart and the mic vio for the song showed lead sger Jimmy Somerville eagerly tryg to make iends a swimmg pool, then beg attacked by an anti-gay gang, beg brought home to his fay by the police and ultimately gettg kicked out of his home for beg gay. The Men of The B-52s (Ricky Wilson, Fred Schneir & Keh Strickland)Fred Schneir, Ricky Wilson, and Keh Strickland, all openly gay, along wh Cdy Wilson and Kate Pierson, make up the Amerin New Wave band The B-52s, known for their posive and enthiastic, slightly wacky, take on the dance and surf mic genre popular the late ‘70s. The Village People (Alexanr Briley, Randy Jon, Felipe Rose)In 1977 openly gay French mic producer Jacqu Morali was visg a New York Cy gay bar, when he spotted Felipe Rose workg as a go-go dancer drsed full Native Amerin headdrs and attire.

GAY UNTRY MIC IN PATRICK HAGGERTY DIED MONDAY AT AGE 78

” Along wh Willis (the police officer and heterosexual) and Rose (the Native Amerin, openly gay), Morali brought on Randy Jon (the wboy, openly gay), Glen Hugh (the biker, heterosexual), David Hodo (the nstctn worker, heterosexual), and Alex Briley (the soldier, openly gay). Hopg to target gay men’s fantasi by pictg popular gay fantasy personas, Morali created The Village People, a name he chose reference to New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, which at the time was known for s substantial gay populatn.

Women loved them for the “men--uniform” fantasy they fulfilled, straight men appreciated the Amerina them their mic, and gay men herald them for their visibily and the urage they gave others to be openly gay. ” He had a four-octave range, he crafted songs that spoke of both the bright and the grty sis of life, he claimed, “I am as gay as a daffodil” and as David Bowie said, “I always admired a man who wore tights…He was fely a man who uld hold an dience the palm of his hand.

PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78

And whether he’s kept a low profile sce then bee he’s livg his life or bee ’s hard for an pennt mician to get tractn this world, he’s still the pg ballaer wh which a young gay man might fall love. Yet back the ’70s was slim pickgs for openly gay artists, and we all knew how to read an artist that ma a joke about beg “bi-astal” (he even named an album that) while throwg himself across the stage like a hyperactive chore on a Broadway belter like “I Go to R. Currently on her mea culpa tour (for, amongst other thgs, supportg Tmp) and tryg to get the foc back on her mic, this mouthy bisexual MC threw away a lot of goodwill by turng her reer to a spectacle of wrong-footedns — her e of slurs agast gay men has been wily reported.

Known for a quick w and sharp tongue, Belli followed up an unexpectedly short stt on Season 4 of RuPl’s Drag Race wh hilar mic parodi of pop hs that mocked Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay polics (“Chow Down (at Chick-fil-A)”), praised well-endowed men (“Love You Like a Big Schlong”) and skewered secret bedroom submissiv (“That Boy is a Bottom”).

LILY ROSE BE FIRST COUNTRY SGER TO BE NAMED OUTSTANDG BREAKTHROUGH MIC ARTIST AT 2022 GLAAD MEDIA AWARDSLILY ROSE: "WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO, AND THIS RIGHT HERE IS A HUGE W. A HUGE W FOR COUNTRY MIC." BY TIFFANY GOLDSTEAPRIL 6, 2022/12:07 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:960PX;WIDTH:1440PX;}BY TIFFANY GOLDSTEAPRIL 6, 2022 / 12:07 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"LILY ROSE BE FIRST COUNTRY SGER TO BE NAMED OUTSTANDG BREAKTHROUGH MIC ARTIST AT 2022 GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2022-04-06T16:07:28.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2022-04-06T16:07:28.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"CMT"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"CMT","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080}},"CREATOR":"TIFFANY GOLDSTE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COUNTRY MIC NEWER LILY ROSE RECENTLY SRED HER FIRST REER ACLA. SHE WAS REGNIZED FOR OUTSTANDG BREAKTHROUGH MIC ARTIST AT THE 33RD ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS ON SATURDAY, APRIL 2, LOS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PRTIG AWARD HONORS ROSE'S CRILLY ACCLAIMED BUT LLECTN,"STRONGER THAN I AM," AND HER WORK WH THE LGBTQ+ {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I'VE KNOWN I WAS PART OF THE LGBTQ MUNY FOR 15 YEARS NOW, BUT TO BE NOMATED WH A GLAAD AWARD COUNTRY MIC IS SOMETHG I'M REALLY REALLY PROUD OF," SHARED ROSE JT MOMENTS BEFORE THE SURPRISE REVEAL OM GLAAD'S ANTHONY RAMOS. "[THERE ARE] THGS THAT WE ALL HAVE OUR EY ON SOME PACY, BUT THERE ARE ON THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT, AND THAT'S WHAT'S MAKG ME EMOTNAL. HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS. I'M REALLY THANKFUL FOR PEOPLE LIKE SHANE MCANALLY AND BRANDI CARLILE AND SO MANY OTHER FOLKS, EVEN ELLEN ENTERTAMENT GENERAL, THAT WALKED SO WE ULD N. WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO, AND THIS RIGHT HERE IS A HUGE W. A HUGE W FOR COUNTRY MIC. I'M HUMBLED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROSE, WHO IS PART OF THE 2022 CLASS OF CMT'S NEXT WOMEN OF COUNTRY, TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO SHARE THE NEWS AND TO EXPLA WHY THE ACHIEVEMENT IS NOT JT A MASSIVE TONE HER BOOK, BUT ALSO A HISTORIL MOMENT WH UNTRY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;} VIEW THIS POST ON INSTAGRAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A POST SHARED BY L I L Y R O S E (@LILYROSEMIC){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;} {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE INSTAGRAM ROEL CLUS ROSE'S EMOTNAL REACTN WHEN RAMOS CROWNED HER AS GLAAD'S OUTSTANDG BREAKTHROUGH MIC ARTIST AND A SHORT VIO OF ROSE ADDRSG HER VOTED FAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"Y'ALL, I N'T BELIEVE WE WON THAT GLAAD AWARD, BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR ALL-GENRE. I AM SO HUMBLED, AND OBVLY, YOU N TELL WHEN ANTHONY OM GLAAD PRENTED ME WH THE AWARD AND THE W OVERE WH EMOTN," SHE SHARED WH GRATU. "IT'S A HUGE W FOR UNTRY MIC. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO, BUT I THK 'S MOVG THE NEEDLE, AND 'S REALLY SPECIAL. I JT WANT TO SHED LIGHT ON MY TEAM WHO HAVE UNAPOLOGETILLY LET ME BE ME AND HAVE ALWAYS SEEN MY THENTICY," ROSE STRSED BEFORE RATTLG OFF NAM OM HER SUPPORTIVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}T.J. OSBORNE, WHO RECENTLY BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARTIST SIGNED TO A MAJOR UNTRY LABEL, AND OTHER LGBTQ+ ALLI RAN TO THE MENT SECTN TO NGRATULATE THE BUDDG SONGSTRS AND TO THANK HER FOR KNOCKG DOWN WALLS WH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THAT'S AMAZG, LILY! CONGRATULATNS," SAID OSBORNE. "WOW!!! YOUR PRENCE AND MIL EXCELLENCE MEANS SO MUCH TO SO MANY PEOPLE ♥ ?", SHARED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;} VIEW THIS POST ON INSTAGRAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A POST SHARED BY L I L Y R O S E (@LILYROSEMIC){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;} {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AHEAD OF HER W, ROSE SAT DOWN WH CMT TO TALK ABOUT HER UPG WEDDG WH HER FIANCéE DAIRA EAMON AND HOW SHE'S G THE POWER OF MIC TO ADVOTE FOR THE LGBTQ + {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I LOVE THIS GENRE. IT'S THE REASON WHY I'M THIS GENRE," ROSE GHED BEFORE HER CHIGO SHOW (MARCH 25). "MY GOAL IS THAT KIDS N JT SPRT AND HAVE ALL THE EXACT OPPORTUNI AND JT GET TREATED WH KDNS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#373A3D;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FEARLS FEMALE PNEER IS CURRENTLY OUT ON THE ROAD WH CHRIS LANE ON HIS FILL THEM BOOTS TOUR. COME SUMMER, ROSE WILL BE JOG SAM HUNT FOR VAR FTIVAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Or, at least, a cult act, whose unflchg honty and betiful tenor uld soundtrack the wet dreams of many buddg young gay boys lookg for a “Half-Boyiend” or a breathtakg partner to leave you bereft (“Rob Me Bld”).

Yet between his activism, thorship (How to Have Sex an Epimic: One Approach), journalism, and actg (Philalphia, Zero Patience), he found and sang wh the gay apella group The Flirtatns (“Everythg Possible”) and released one solo album, Purple Heart (“Talkg Old Soldiers”), while he was alive. Yet more die rock and punk, this time om another all-female Philalphia tr who do a stellar versn of New Orr’s “Age of Consent” and released a solid sophomore set wh 2017’s New Kd of Normal (“B Ticket”).

CHRIS HOMAN WANTS TO BE THE NEXT GAY COUNTRY STAR

Coil, the project of Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and Jhonn Balance — both of Genis P-Orridge’s Psychic TV, and the se of Christopherson, dtrial pneers Throbbg Gristle — were always very upont about their gayns. Wh two releas behd them, this Atralian band is poised to bee the next Years & Years or Troye Sivan — an electropop die ncern that wav the gay flag proudly and produc betiful synth-based tun perfect for ntemplatn (“Chas’”) and romance (“Csh”). Their jangly die pop remas the same, the gay ntent has expand and epened, and one day the cult that lov them for their melodic surf-guar and fun groov — “Let’s Go Surfg, ” “Money, ” “Let Me” (to name a few) — might have to share them wh more people.

Prev s of mic that clud groundbreakg pneers like David Bowie, the Village People, Gee Michael, Joan Jett, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury have given way to today's young, openly gay micians like Le1f, Troye Sivan, Adam Lambert, Sam Smh, and Years and Years ontman Olly Alexanr.

I thk if we keep our heads held high and we keep together and we keep dog what we’re dog and beg thentic, I like to believe that will hopefully not only change the landspe of untry mic, but ’ll also help change the cycle of racism and homophobia. 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.

ORVILLE PECK, A MASKED GAY COUNTRY STAR, RIS INTO BROOKLYN

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. 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.

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.

COUNTRY SGER CAMERON HAWTHORN COM OUT AS GAY MIC VIO

And if you n around spendg your whole life thkg that you're dog the wrong thg, then you'll your immortal out of all the thgs a father 1959 uld have told his gay son, my father tells me to be proud of myself and not sneak. Warren/Associated PrsPatrick Haggerty, who 1973 released an album of untry songs about same-sex romance that sold only 1, 000 pi and seemed sted for eternal obscury until, four s later, s redisvery brought him renown as the first openly gay untry sger, died on Oct.

Haggerty the unual — he equently lled “absurd” — clatn to make gay untry had been spired to e out of the closet after learng about the 1969 Stonewall uprisg New York, creded wh igng the gay-rights movement.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY SINGER COUNTRY

‎Circle Myth by Jean Gay on Apple Mic .

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