Janis Ian Brgs a Lbian Classic to Life - The Gay & Lbian Review

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• IAN IS GAY
• ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN BETA(FUNCTN(){FOR(VAR G="FUNCTN"==TYPEOF FEPROPERTI?FEPROPERTY:FUNCTN(B,C,A){IF(||)THROW NEW TYPEERROR("ES3 DO NOT SUPPORT GETTERS AND SETTERS.");B!=ARRAY.PROTOTYPE&&B!=OBJECT.PROTOTYPE&&(B[C])},H="UNFED"!=TYPEOF WDOW&&WDOW===THIS?THIS:"UNFED"!=TYPEOF GLOBAL&&NULL!=GLOBAL?GLOBAL:THIS,K=["STRG","PROTOTYPE","REPEAT"],L=0;LB||1342177279>>=1)C+=C;RETURN A};Q!=P&&NULL!=Q&&G(H,N,{NFIGURABLE:!0,WRABLE:!0,VALUE:Q});VAR T=THIS;FUNCTN U(B,C){VAR ("."),D=T;A[0] D||!D.EXECSCRIPT||D.EXECSCRIPT("VAR "+A[0]);FOR(VAR E;(());)||VOID 0===C?D[E]?D=D[E]:D=D[E]={}:D[E]=C};FUNCTN V(B){VAR ;IF(0=C.OFFSETWIDTH&&0>=C.OFFSETHEIGHT)A=!1;ELSE{D=C.GETBOUNDGCLIENTRECT();VAR ;("PAGEYOFFSET" WDOW?WDOW.PAGEYOFFSET:(DOCUMENT.DOCUMENTELEMENT||F.PARENTNO||F).SCROLLTOP);("PAGEXOFFSET" WDOW?WDOW.PAGEXOFFSET:(DOCUMENT.DOCUMENTELEMENT||F.PARENTNO||F).SCROLLLEFT);F=A.TOSTRG()+","+D;B.B.HASOWNPROPERTY(F)?A=!1:(B.B[F]=!0,A=(A+=E)}B.I&&(E="&RD="+ENURICOMPONENT(JSON.STRGIFY(B())),131072>(A+=E),C=!0);C=A;IF(C){D=B.H;B=B.J;VAR F;IF(WDOW.XMLHTTPREQUT)F=NEW XMLHTTPREQUT;ELSE IF(WDOW.ACTIVEXOBJECT)TRY{F=NEW ACTIVEXOBJECT("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")}TCH(R){TRY{F=NEW ACTIVEXOBJECT("MICROSOFT.XMLHTTP")}TCH(D){}}F&&(("POST",D+(-1==XOF("?")?"?":"&")+"URL="+ENURICOMPONENT(B)),F.SETREQUTHEAR("CONTENT-TYPE","APPLITN/X-WWW-FORM-URLEND"),(A))}}}FUNCTN B(){VAR B={},C;C=DOCUMENT.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME("IMG");IF(!)RETURN{};VAR A=C[0];IF(!("NATURALWIDTH" A&&"NATURALHEIGHT" A))RETURN{};FOR(VAR D=0;A=C[D];++D){VAR E=A.GETATTRIBUTE("DATA-PAGPEED-URL-HASH");E&&(!(E B)&&0=B[E].O&&>=B[E].M)&&(B[E]={,,OW:A.NATURALWIDTH,OH:A.NATURALHEIGHT})}RETURN B}VAR C="";U("PAGPEED.CRILIMAG.GETBEANDATA",FUNCTN(){RETURN C});U("",FUNCTN(B,C,A,D,E,F){VAR R=NEW Y(B,C,A,E,F);X=R;D&&W(FUNCTN(){WDOW.SETTIMEOUT(FUNCTN(){A(R)},0)})});})();('/NGX_PAGPEED_BEAN','','EVFAZEUQGZ',TE,FALSE,'IIMSZOSGBXM');
• CAMERON MONAGHAN PLAYS AN OPENLY GAY MAN ON 'SHAMELS,' BUT IS HE IRL?
• EVERYONE IS GAYA GREAT BIG WORLDTRACK 7 ON IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? PRODUCED BYCHRIS KUFFNERA SONG RELEASED ON YOUTUBE 2013 BY A GREAT BIG WORLD, LATER RELEASED AS THE 7TH TRACK OF THEIR 2014 ALBUM IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?. “EVERYONE IS GAY" IS A GAY RIGHTS… READ MORE JUN. 30, 20131 VIEWER26.3K VIEWS23 CONTRIBUTORSEVERYONE IS GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYDON'T PRETEND THAT YOU'RE STRAIGHTYOU N BE WHO YOU ARE ANY DAY OF THE WEEKYOU ARE UNLIKE THE OTHERSSO STRONG AND UNIQUEWE'RE ALL WH YOUIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREATYOU N HELP PROCREATEAND MAKE GAY LTLE BABIFOR THE WHOLE HUMAN RACEMAKE A WORLD WE N LIVE WHERE THE ONE WHO YOU LOVE'S NOT AN ISSUE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEWE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[VERSE 2]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREAT!IF YOU FALL BETWEEN THAT'S THE BT WAY TO BEYOU'VE GOT SO MANY OPTNSEVERY FISH THE SEA WANTS TO KISS YOU(MUAH! AWW!)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEAND WE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[OUTRO]AND WE'RE ALL HERE TOGETHERWE'RE ONE STEP CLOSER TO BREAKG DOWN THE WALLSEVERYONE IS GAYHOORAY! (HOORAY)11EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• EVERYONE IS GAY
• EVERYBODY’S GAYLIZZOTRACK 8 ON SPECIAL (APPLE MIC EDN) PRODUCED BYPOP WANSEL, IAN KIRKPATRICK & 1 MOREJUL. 15, 20221 VIEWER28.5K VIEWS32 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSESPAñOLPORTUGUêSEVERYBODY’S GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]1 A.M. AND THE NIGHT JT KEEPS ON LL', OOHWE ON MON TIME UNTIL TOMORROW MORN', OOH-WEE (SAY LS)BCH, SAY LS, EXPRS YOURSELFBCH, GET DRSED, UN-STRS YOURSELFIT'S LD OUTSI, SO WHAT? LET'S TAKE A WALK[PRE-CHOS]TONIGHT, I WANNA BE NOBODY ELSE (NOBODY ELSE)THIS STUME FEELS SO REAL, ALMOST SRED MYSELF[CHOS]DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY(KEEP PSY POPP', POP THOSE PERLAT)EVERYBODY'S GAY, YEAH(IT'S A HAPPY PLACE HERE, BABY, YOU'RE SAFE)WE N TAKE OUR MASK OFFWE N ALL BALL AND PARLAYI N HARDLY WA(AT 3 A.M., THE еAK E OUT THE GE)[VERSE 2]MM, YеAH, THERE'S A MONA LISA MOAN' THE ROOM, MMTELL A SEXY NURSE TO MEET ME THE LOO, OOH, YEAHSISTERS DRK' BCH BREWTHE MISTER GOT A MONSTER TOO (BIG DICK)IT'S GETT' EAKY, DO YOU WANNA LEAVE THE BALL? (HELL NAH)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY(KEEP PSY POPP', POP THOSE PERLAT)EVERYBODY'S GAY, YEAH(IT'S A HAPPY PLACE HERE, BABY, YOU'RE SAFE)WE N TAKE OUR MASK OFFWE N ALL BALL AND PARLAYI N HARDLY WA(AT 3 A.M., THE EAK E OUT THE GE)[BRIDGE]PUR, BCHFREAKY NIGHTSCRAZY TIMLET'S PLAY DRS UP, BABY(PLAY THAT SH, MY BOY)[CHOS]DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY(KEEP PSY POPP', POP THOSE PERLAT)EVERYBODY'S GAY, YEAH(IT'S A HAPPY PLACE HERE, BABY, YOU'RE SAFE)WE N TAKE OUR MASK OFFWE N ALL BALL AND PARLAYI N HARDLY WA(AT 3 A.M., THE EAK E OUT THE GE)(WOO, OKAY, SHE N SG)[OUTRO]PUR, BCH4EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• IAN IS GAY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

IAN IS GAY

Ian Tyson Gay? In recent years, we’ve seen micians talk openly about their gay inty and same-sex relatnships. Fans may openly embrace a gay Elton John, Melissa Etheridge or Ricky Mart now, but over the past 50 years or more ’s been a stggle for most queer artists to live their liv openly and whout shame and persecutn.

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His theatril scream-sgg, macho stage prence, and all-around badassery (bt showsed on inic rerds like 1980’s Brish Steel and 1982’s Screamg for Vengeance) prompted many fans to ll him “Metal God:” a tradnally mascule trope Halford boldly upend Febary 1998, when he me out as gay an MTV News terview. As the earlit show of queer solidary om a proment metal mician, Halford’s admissn proved val rhapg the public perceptn of heavy metal, repostg an earspltg, heteronormative boys’ club as a safe space where headbangers of all typ uld be themselv, sheltered the flailg arms of not jt a benevolent (and openly gay) God, but the scene wr large. ” The fact that he did all while beg pletely open about his sexualy – llg himself “rock’s tt fairy” – is astoundg and, for a brief, shg moment 1974, Jobriath beme the most visible gay man popular mic.

While the “Queen of Dis” is a tle most monly btowed upon Donna Summer, also appli to Sylvter, who was a fixture of the dis scene and an in of the gay liberatn movement that spawned out of San Francis.

The tle track even clus the lyric: “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay.

CAMERON MONAGHAN PLAYS AN OPENLY GAY MAN ON 'SHAMELS,' BUT IS HE IRL?

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.

EVERYONE IS GAYA GREAT BIG WORLDTRACK 7 ON IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? PRODUCED BYCHRIS KUFFNERA SONG RELEASED ON YOUTUBE 2013 BY A GREAT BIG WORLD, LATER RELEASED AS THE 7TH TRACK OF THEIR 2014 ALBUM IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?. “EVERYONE IS GAY" IS A GAY RIGHTS… READ MORE JUN. 30, 20131 VIEWER26.3K VIEWS23 CONTRIBUTORSEVERYONE IS GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYDON'T PRETEND THAT YOU'RE STRAIGHTYOU N BE WHO YOU ARE ANY DAY OF THE WEEKYOU ARE UNLIKE THE OTHERSSO STRONG AND UNIQUEWE'RE ALL WH YOUIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREATYOU N HELP PROCREATEAND MAKE GAY LTLE BABIFOR THE WHOLE HUMAN RACEMAKE A WORLD WE N LIVE WHERE THE ONE WHO YOU LOVE'S NOT AN ISSUE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEWE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[VERSE 2]IF YOU'RE GAY THEN YOU'RE GAYIF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, WELL, THAT'S GREAT!IF YOU FALL BETWEEN THAT'S THE BT WAY TO BEYOU'VE GOT SO MANY OPTNSEVERY FISH THE SEA WANTS TO KISS YOU(MUAH! AWW!)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]'CSE WE'RE ALL SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLEAND WE'RE ALL JT LOOKG FOR LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWHAT IF THE WORLD STOPS SPNG TOMORROW?WE N'T KEEP NNG AWAY OM WHO WE ARE[OUTRO]AND WE'RE ALL HERE TOGETHERWE'RE ONE STEP CLOSER TO BREAKG DOWN THE WALLSEVERYONE IS GAYHOORAY! (HOORAY)11EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

"I'm Comg Out, " om Diana Ross's Diana album, is perhaps the apex of gay anthems. "She didn't unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, 'I'm g out of the closet, '" said Rodgers. "Rodgers said he ultimately nvced Ross to sg the track, argug would make the perfect opener for an entertaer, addn to tablishg her as one of the greatt gay ins.

EVERYONE IS GAY

Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands were the only untri where gay marriage was had no plans to wre a song about .

But as gay marriage beme sporadilly legalized - by Massachetts 2004 and by Spa the next year - the absurdy of all lled for a song. The song was wrten as a universal msage on alienatn and facg your fears, but many gay youth, cludg Melissa Etheridge, heard the le, "I learned the tth at seventeen" as Janis g to terms wh beg a lbian.

EVERYBODY’S GAYLIZZOTRACK 8 ON SPECIAL (APPLE MIC EDN) PRODUCED BYPOP WANSEL, IAN KIRKPATRICK & 1 MOREJUL. 15, 20221 VIEWER28.5K VIEWS32 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSESPAñOLPORTUGUêSEVERYBODY’S GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]1 A.M. AND THE NIGHT JT KEEPS ON LL', OOHWE ON MON TIME UNTIL TOMORROW MORN', OOH-WEE (SAY LS)BCH, SAY LS, EXPRS YOURSELFBCH, GET DRSED, UN-STRS YOURSELFIT'S LD OUTSI, SO WHAT? LET'S TAKE A WALK[PRE-CHOS]TONIGHT, I WANNA BE NOBODY ELSE (NOBODY ELSE)THIS STUME FEELS SO REAL, ALMOST SRED MYSELF[CHOS]DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY(KEEP PSY POPP', POP THOSE PERLAT)EVERYBODY'S GAY, YEAH(IT'S A HAPPY PLACE HERE, BABY, YOU'RE SAFE)WE N TAKE OUR MASK OFFWE N ALL BALL AND PARLAYI N HARDLY WA(AT 3 A.M., THE еAK E OUT THE GE)[VERSE 2]MM, YеAH, THERE'S A MONA LISA MOAN' THE ROOM, MMTELL A SEXY NURSE TO MEET ME THE LOO, OOH, YEAHSISTERS DRK' BCH BREWTHE MISTER GOT A MONSTER TOO (BIG DICK)IT'S GETT' EAKY, DO YOU WANNA LEAVE THE BALL? (HELL NAH)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[CHOS]DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY(KEEP PSY POPP', POP THOSE PERLAT)EVERYBODY'S GAY, YEAH(IT'S A HAPPY PLACE HERE, BABY, YOU'RE SAFE)WE N TAKE OUR MASK OFFWE N ALL BALL AND PARLAYI N HARDLY WA(AT 3 A.M., THE EAK E OUT THE GE)[BRIDGE]PUR, BCHFREAKY NIGHTSCRAZY TIMLET'S PLAY DRS UP, BABY(PLAY THAT SH, MY BOY)[CHOS]DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY(KEEP PSY POPP', POP THOSE PERLAT)EVERYBODY'S GAY, YEAH(IT'S A HAPPY PLACE HERE, BABY, YOU'RE SAFE)WE N TAKE OUR MASK OFFWE N ALL BALL AND PARLAYI N HARDLY WA(AT 3 A.M., THE EAK E OUT THE GE)(WOO, OKAY, SHE N SG)[OUTRO]PUR, BCH4EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Knowg that rad statn program directors (overwhelmgly male) would reject the song, she sent pi of to their wiv, who helped garner prec do the fights for civil rights, women's rights and gay rights pare? You n hi if you're gay.

But mak the whole gay rights movement very different om women's rights or om civil rights as we know .

Lang at the Triangle Ball - the first gural ball to honor gays and lbians - where they very loudly and very publicly announced that they were gay and relatnships. ' I looked at them, and I realized that 3 out of every 10 teenage suicis were bee they thought they might be gay - not even were gay; might be gay. And then she said, 'Did you ever have a gay mentor, somebody you uld look up to; somebody who was a public figure?

IAN IS GAY

' She said, 'Well, don't you thk would be good for them to see a gay person a stable relatnship, and the wrer of 'At Seventeen, ' as well?

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

"It's difficult to put to words the affect of artists g out has on any gay person, " says Kristen Ellis-Henrson om the band Antigone Risg. "The importance of any public person g out is immeasurable to gay people all over the world. "Janis liv Nashville, a town that may have been unduly harsh when the Dixie Chicks cricized the Print, but has grown to accept gays and lbians as part of their fabric.

""Gay rights has taken such a huge turn the last uple of years 's really astonishg to me.

I would never have dreamed my lifetime that I would see gay marriage even bee an issue, let alone be dified plac like Spa.

I thk there's been an unrcurrent as people like myself e out, people like David Geffen e out, people who are lears dtry or sports or folks that wre songs like 'At Seventeen' that relate on a much eper level than whether you're gay or not.

"Gay marriage is beg legalized more and more stat on s exorable march toward natnal regnn, but Janis has no tert another ceremony. "The April 8, 2013 issue of Time magaze showed two women kissg unr the headle, "Gay Marriage Already Won" (an alternate ver featured two men full smooch).