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40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

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! * gay female singer from the 80s *

Sexism, homophobia, racism: The folks clud this brief history have uniformly faced one or more of the obstacl along the way. Bgraphers say Sister Tharpe was known to have a relatnship wh at least one other woman while she toured, wh the road makg easier for many women to live more openly whout fear of homophobic retributn. Genr policg and segregatn worsened after the Send World War, and so the “act” of homosexualy was one that queer and genr-nonnformg women micians navigated refully om the late 40s and well to the 50s and 60s.

Combed wh the ia of Free Love and gay liberatn, the women’s movement spawned an entire women’s mic movement that aligned wh the nfsnal folk mic of the era but were separate their separatism – that is, they wrote songs explicly for and about women, and many of them were lbian nature. Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Maxe Feldman, and Phranc are jt a few notable sger-songwrers who performed for their muny si church, ffee ho, gay bars, and at all-women mic ftivals, where activism and muny were as much of a foc as the mic self. This mil momentum around new sounds and new ias me to a head the 70s wh all-girl bands like Fanny, led by openly gay June Millgton, and The Runaways, led by the inic guarist-turned-ontwoman Joan Jett.

Grace Jon and Annie Lennox would also participate this drag-que display, nontg notns of tradnal femy the mastream while homophobia kept openly lbian micians segregated to their own circu. Dis was heavily fluenced by and played gay clubs, and though Sylvter and alli like Donna Summer are more often namechecked, lbian-intified Nona Hendryx of LaBelle (“Lady Marmala”) and Alicia Bridg, whose h “I Love the Nightlife” went to No.

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

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As their name implied (a group that subverts om wh), Fifth Column took on both the straight punk scene and gay mastream and spired other queerre acts like Team Drch, Tribe 8, and The Butchi, as well as settg the stage for Rt grrrl the 90s.

The 90s were also a notable for gay women mic, wh reverberatns of Madonna’s sexual fluidy, Cyndi Lper’s dividualy, and Queen Latifah’s royal claratns of pennce creatg space for more voic om different kds of bodi.

THE 13 GAYT MIC VIOS OF THE '80S

We have listed 30 sgers you may not have known were lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer. How many have you heard of? * gay female singer from the 80s *

Lang and Melissa Etheridge won cril acclaim and climbed the Billboard charts while purposefully g out as gay. Although the artists were subject to cel jok and send-ups at tim, their beg out public simultaneoly gave lbians more visibily at a ccial time for polil activist groups like the Lbian Avengers who, feelg left behd by straight femists and gay men, sought safety and rpect as both women and queers.

Outsi of pop, the 2000s was home to a thrivg electronic scene wh queer acts like Anohni, Fever Ray, and Goldapp playg stag at large-sle ftivals, while untry mic and hip-hop have both seen a signifint rise openly gay artists.

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