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Released durg a peak of the gay-rights movement, one the midst of the AIDS crisis, the Pet Shop Boys helped to break sexual taboos pop wh songs like “Wt End Girls.
Lookg back to the objects of one's affectn as a teenager, Tegan and Sara Qu, intil tws who both openly intify as gay, were reportedly spired by Taylor Swift to cross over to pop mic wh this album. The Lebane-born English gay sger Mika released his fourth album 2015, tled “No Place Heaven.
“Blon” was one of two 2016 releas om sger and rapper Frank Ocean, who is gay, wh the other release beg the vio album “Endls. The sophomore album om bisexual pop star Halsey featured a gut appearance om Fifth Harmony's Lren Jregui for the song “Strangers, ” which was Halsey's attempt to brg a love song between two women on rad wav.
LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached. * gay musical album *
Years & Years lead sger Olly Alexanr is a gay activist, and the album “Palo Santo” brought explicly queer them to the band's work.
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In his first full album “soil, ” the openly gay Wise m about topics like labor and love wh a distct R&B-like sound.
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Jake Shears, et al, are fantastic pop songwrers, but ccially, they’re not jt that — there’s real emotnal ronance to this album, pecially “Mary” (Shears’ logy to his ad bt iend) and closg track “Return to Oz, ” a strikg portra of how New York’s gay muny has been affected by crystal meth — The Marriage of Te MdsAn album tle that also provis a neat and rather touchg summatn of the relatnship between s creators, who are a uple and have been makg fascatg, cerebral electronic mic together for more than a . Hüsker Dü — Zen ArIt seems strange to clu Hüsker Dü here bee their mic was so genr-ntral — the band steadfastly ma no acknowledgement at all of the fact that Bob Mould was gay and Grant Hart was bisexual, perhaps bee the two were too by hatg one another to worry about anythg else. ” It was the soundtrack to many a ’90s teen’s self-qutng, somethg not exactly disuraged by Brett Anrson and his “I’m a bisexual man who’s never had a homosexual experience” Divisn — That’s So GayFor all s mythology of unnstraed self-exprsn, the ultra-macho world of punk hasn’t always been super gay-iendly, which perhaps explas the emergence of queerre as s own genre.