How An Openly Gay D.C. Soul Sger Ma Motown History | Bandwidth

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• HOW AN OPENLY GAY D.C. SOUL SGER MA MOTOWN HISTORY
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• STI SOL SGER CHIMANO HAILED KENYA FOR G OUT AS GAY
• PERSONALIZED CARTOONS, PERSONALIZED GIFTS & SNAP CHARMS BY GAY ZURICH OF ART & SOUL WKHA, WI
• MARV GAYE
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY FUNK/SOUL/ETC ARTISTS

HOW AN OPENLY GAY D.C. SOUL SGER MA MOTOWN HISTORY

In recent years, we’ve seen micians talk openly about their gay inty and same-sex relatnships.

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

Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn. His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview.

STI SOL SGER CHIMANO HAILED KENYA FOR G OUT AS GAY

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 11 songs on his but album clud his sgle “I’m a Man,” the S&M ballad “Take Me I’m Yours” and “Blow Away” – wh Stephen Holn wrg his review for RS that Jobriath’s voice was “unnnily remiscent of Mick Jagger’s.” 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.

PERSONALIZED CARTOONS, PERSONALIZED GIFTS & SNAP CHARMS BY GAY ZURICH OF ART & SOUL WKHA, WI

The tle track even clus the lyric: “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay.” A soul pneer, Shane’s mic elucidat the lived experienc of Ain Amerins, pecially genr non-nformg dividuals, tersectnally loted on the margs of social acceptance – and on her live albums, her brassy voice twangs siarly to her Tennsee soul sister, Ta Turner. It wasn’t until after hostg var episos of the show for a uple years – which all centered on LGBT issu – that she spoke openly about her partner of over two s and the stggl of beg gay the mic dtry. “I thk the rerd dtry – by and large what’s left of – is still totally homophobic,” she said, notg that she me out her twenti and never went to “lengths” to nceal .

Brish punk rocker Tom Robson achieved chart succs wh h songs “2-4-6-8 Motorway”, “Up Agast the Wall” and “Don’t Take No for an Answer,” but he’ll always be immortalized for his sgalong prott anthem, “Glad to be Gay.” Origally wrten for a 1976 London gay pri march, the song was nearly banned by the BBC 1978 – although DJ John Peel fied the stricture. Swappg out punk moralist clichés for LGBT issu, the them unrlg the group’s mic give voice to both fury and hope for gay punks.

Regn uld have been lled a soul mic pal: Out of me Marv Gaye, Peach & Herb, The Casuals (later Skip Mahoney & The Casuals), Terry Huff and Special Delivery, The Unifics and numero other talented performers who played the regn and eventually cut rerd als. But a soul group wh an openly gay ontman? He says The Dynamic Superrs helped break a barrier for openly gay performers, and certaly for Motown Rerds, which gave the group a multiyear al the 1970s.

MARV GAYE

“It’s not like beg gay was gog to shock [everyone at the time], ’s jt Motown, ” Coombe says. Dis, which had already opened new doors for openly gay artists, may have helped ph Motown a gay-iendlier directn.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

That same year, a Motown-distributed imprt released the gay anthem “I Was Born This Way, ” sung by Valento.

They really gave the group some leeway bee the lead sger was openly gay. Tony was the only openly gay member of the group.

Note: Washgton said a 1977 terview that he had another gay bandmate who hadn’t e out.

GAY FUNK/SOUL/ETC ARTISTS

Washgton was pretty out there—he wore makp, he would drs such a way that is clear that he was gay. They got to the pot where Motown was fortable releasg album vers that really flnted the fact that the guys had a nnectn to the gay muny.