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.
Contents:
- GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
- CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S
GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
We have listed 30 sgers you may not have known were lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer. How many have you heard of? * gay 1980s pop stars *
The fact that there are many mic artists who are openly gay is a big step for LGBTQ+ rights, which mak the artists important and fluential. And that’s why gay rockstars were so important – and Freddie Mercury was probably the most fluential. In one of the terviews, the sger said he was spired by Elton John throughout his life, and he is also a famo gay sger.
Eher way, g out as gay was a life-changg (and liberatg) cisn for Ricky Mart, and he is now nsired one of the most fluential LGBT artists the world. However, 2012, he scribed himself as gay, and he has been more open about his private life ever sce.
All thgs nsired, Mika’s songs are an tegral part of morn pop mic, and he remas one of the most fluential gay pop stars. Well, he is certaly makg a difference, pecially the metal genre, which mak him one of the most fluential gay sgers mic dtry. Wh the succs of his album Trspassg, Lambert was also the first openly gay sger to have an album reach number one on the Billboard 200 charts.
CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
* gay 1980s pop stars *
That beg said, Gee Michael’s ntributn to LGBT right was immense, and he will always be remembered as one of the most proment gay sgers of all time. Regardg his personal life, he was married to his high-school sweetheart San Deixler the 60s, but he me out as gay 2007.
In a way, he is an inic gay rock star – not bee of his inty, but bee he spired generatns of LGBT people. In one of the terviews, Stipe scribed himself as a ‘queer artist’, although he prevly didn’t want to label himself gay or straight. The song spent 19 weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 – meanwhile, Lil Nas X me out as gay, which ma him the first artist to do so while beg on the top of the chart.
POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S
A Canadian sger and songwrer Ruf Wawright has been open about his homosexualy sce he was a teenager. Tennant publicly me out as gay 1994, when he nfirmed the terview for the Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu. Billy Porter me out as gay when he was 16, and he is an outspoken advote for LGBT and racial rights.