For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre 'love letters' to the LGBTQ muny.
Contents:
- SARA BAREILL: ‘IF I WERE GAY, I’D SHOUT OM THE MOUNTATOPS’
- SARA BAREILL: THE GAY TERVIEW
- Q&A: SARA BAREILL TALKS GAY ‘BROTHERS AND SISTERS,’ WHETHER CLOSETED CELEBS ARE ‘BRAVE’ & WHY SHE THKS TAYLOR SWIFT STANDS FOR ‘SISTERHOOD’
SARA BAREILL: ‘IF I WERE GAY, I’D SHOUT OM THE MOUNTATOPS’
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“One of the first muni where I felt like I was accepted and allowed to be my fully exprsed self were my mom’s iends om theater who happened to be gay, ” remembers Bareill. There’s enough gay people to play the rol.
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SARA BAREILL: THE GAY TERVIEW
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Q&A: SARA BAREILL TALKS GAY ‘BROTHERS AND SISTERS,’ WHETHER CLOSETED CELEBS ARE ‘BRAVE’ & WHY SHE THKS TAYLOR SWIFT STANDS FOR ‘SISTERHOOD’
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More recently R&B sger Frank Ocean, rappers Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and pop super star Lady Gaga all me out wh their own tak on what means to be gay. Ocean's mic tends to be on the personal si, explorg his own relatnship wh another man (he has risted llg himself gay or bisexual). Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" is an embrace-your-inty anthem, like Bareill's, albe more explic s msage: "No matter gay, straight or bi/ Lbian, transgenred life/ I'm on the right track, baby.