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!
Contents:
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- GAY ARTISTS FOR THE MILLY ADVENTURO
- AM I GAY?
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- VICKY BEECHG, CHRISTIAN ROCK STAR 'I'M GAY. GOD LOV ME JT THE WAY I AM'
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
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The fact that there are many mic artists who are openly gay is a big step for LGBTQ+ rights, which mak the artists important and fluential. And that’s why gay rockstars were so important – and Freddie Mercury was probably the most fluential. In one of the terviews, the sger said he was spired by Elton John throughout his life, and he is also a famo gay sger.
Eher way, g out as gay was a life-changg (and liberatg) cisn for Ricky Mart, and he is now nsired one of the most fluential LGBT artists the world. However, 2012, he scribed himself as gay, and he has been more open about his private life ever sce.
All thgs nsired, Mika’s songs are an tegral part of morn pop mic, and he remas one of the most fluential gay pop stars. Well, he is certaly makg a difference, pecially the metal genre, which mak him one of the most fluential gay sgers mic dtry. Wh the succs of his album Trspassg, Lambert was also the first openly gay sger to have an album reach number one on the Billboard 200 charts.
GAY ARTISTS FOR THE MILLY ADVENTURO
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That beg said, Gee Michael’s ntributn to LGBT right was immense, and he will always be remembered as one of the most proment gay sgers of all time.
Regardg his personal life, he was married to his high-school sweetheart San Deixler the 60s, but he me out as gay 2007. In a way, he is an inic gay rock star – not bee of his inty, but bee he spired generatns of LGBT people. In one of the terviews, Stipe scribed himself as a ‘queer artist’, although he prevly didn’t want to label himself gay or straight.
The song spent 19 weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 – meanwhile, Lil Nas X me out as gay, which ma him the first artist to do so while beg on the top of the chart. A Canadian sger and songwrer Ruf Wawright has been open about his homosexualy sce he was a teenager.
AM I GAY?
Tennant publicly me out as gay 1994, when he nfirmed the terview for the Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu. Billy Porter me out as gay when he was 16, and he is an outspoken advote for LGBT and racial rights. In fact, Grand is one of the few openly gay untry artists, which mak his openns even more important and fluential.
Grand has performed on numero Pri events, and his mic often revolv around his experienc as a gay person. But he me out as gay neverthels, which ma him one of the most fluential gay pop sgers of his era.
That’s why for , don’t matter whether or not our young micians (and others, of urse) are gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng, tersex or rock stars to pop divas, and everyone between, many of the world’s bt-loved sgers and posers are members of the LGBTQIA+ muny – and we celebrate each and every one of you need of spiratn for your next playlist? Although Brten lived a time and place where homosexualy was illegal, the Suffolk-born poser was an openly gay man. His many love letters to tenor, Sir Peter Pears, were later ed an exhibn to mark the 50th anniversary of The 1967 Sexual Offenc Act, the law that started the revolutnary procs of crimalisg homosexualy England and Wal.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Acrdg to Arthur Lrents, who worked closely wh the mician on Wt Si Story, Leonard was “a gay man who got married. Followg the song’s release, The Grammy Award-wner, who me out as gay durg Pri Month, told CBS that public figur g out will “always help” others who may be stgglg but believ there is “still much to be done”. A pneer of the psdo-operatic vol style, Rob also plays the guar, bass, harmoni, keyboard and dms, and has performed wh other famo bands throughout his reer, cludg Black Sabbath, Metalli and ‘Breakg the Law’ sger announced that he was gay durg an MTV terview, makg him the first metal in to e out publicly.
VICKY BEECHG, CHRISTIAN ROCK STAR 'I'M GAY. GOD LOV ME JT THE WAY I AM'
His orchtral works clu secular orator, A Child of Our Time (1935-41), Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (1953), and dramatic opera, The Midsummer Marriage, which buted at Covent Garn 1955 and was led by nductor John Michael me out as gay his mid-30s and thanks to his fluence the classil world, the poser beme hugely fluential shapg public perceptn of homosexualy.
Many stars (Elton John, Clay Aiken, Adam Lambert) have e out of the closet as gay, while others, like David Bowie, have later clarified or retracted siar statements. But a later, March 2010, the Lat sger and former Menudo star posted a msage on his webse: "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, " he wrote.
The theatril glam-rock sger seemed like a shoo- to w Amerin Idol's eighth season 2009, which would have ma him the show's first gay wner. "I don't thk should be a surprise for anyone to hear I'm gay, " he said a Rollg Stone ver story. " But Townshend – who was married to a woman at the time – clarified his remarks a 1994 terview wh Playboy, sayg, "I talked about my 'gay life, ' which – I meant – was actually about the iends that I've had who are gay … The terviewer kd of dotted the t's and crossed the i's and assumed that I was g out, which I wasn't at all.