The history of pop mic, and of black pop mic particular, has always been gay history.
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ON THIS GAY DAY: BLU SGER MA RAEY DIED 1939
Was Ma Raey Gay? Who Was Ma Raey's Hband? * was ma rainey gay *
Keep md that as recently as the ’80s, gay, whe artists such as Gee Michael and Judas Prit volist Rob Halford worried that the pfalls of g out publicly would be too great for their rpective reers to survive.
We pored through the lyrics of Ma’s numero rerdgs search of most ground-breakg gay lyrics. Although direct referenc to homosexualy n be unted on one hand, more obscure nods n be found as she sgs l that dite her disda for the abive men her life. Check out the awome exprsns om one of Ameri’s earlit pro-gay voic mic below:.
* was ma rainey gay *
As opposed to her other nods to homosexualy, which were often sprkled spargly wh a le or two of a stanza, seems Ma wrote this particular tune explicly om the viewpot of a lbian woman.