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Contents:

• GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN
• ‘GAY CHRISTIAN’ MICIAN REVEALS ‘DARK CLOUD OVER THE CHRISTIAN MIC INDTRY’
• PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?
• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• WHEN CHRISTIAN CELEBRI GO GAY

GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN

" He is also pletely aware of how important his succs is to the public narrative, sayg, "My aim is to tell people how good 's been for me so that, hopefully, gay men or parents wh gay children n look at my story and thk, Wow, that's how should be. "Ask a gay qutn, here's a black answer, " he raps on his 2014 EP Hey.

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It meant he, a Mormon man, would have to hi his sexualy om even more grew up as a closeted gay man the tensely relig town of Provo, Utah, and spent two years after high school on a missn trip seekg nverts to Mormonism, meanwhile listeng to banned secular mic.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

A lot has changed sce the band's early days — Okereke has trad post-punk for a brilliant solo electronic reer, and he's explicly addrsg his experience as a gay man his released his send album, Trick, October, wh some mic blogs claimg was the bt mic he's ever produced. Okereke wrote an article for Vice "On Beg Gay and Black the Dance and Rock Worlds, " which he addrs the mic dtry's racism and homophobia cisively. "It's difficult for me to make this vio, not bee I'm ashamed of beg a gay male artist, or a gay artist or a gay person, but 's pretty silly to know that I'm ashamed of dog this knowg that I'm a genre and an dtry that’s ashamed of me for beg me, " Gilman said.

"'Bld' was about growg up a gay kid, my immediate fay and social group rejectg me, and askg why I was born to this suatn. L-G-B-T, L-O-V-E, oho, don't hate our love, " she sgs, which is juxtaposed wh unyieldg l about homophobia like, "They never choose who they like, so they like me ad. An terracial gay uple, I mean that's jt weird for Ameri right now, " she told the Inpennt.

We wrote about her a few months ago after she shouted “Gay rights! ” at a Swchfoot ncert, a practice she advot dog orr to publicly force ‘Christian’ artists to nont their homophobia and outdated and amoral views on homosexualy. (In rponse to that ll out, Swchfoot’s Jon Foreman rpond to the axg of a queer “Christian” artist qutng his pro-LGBTQ+ creds, tellg her that LGBTQ+ people are always wele at his ncerts and that he supports gay rights and eedoms.

GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN

The openly queer Christian artist Semler was elated to report the breakg news that the parkg attendant at a Swchfoot ncert supports gay rights. Later that eveng, their plan was: “Sometime maybe after ‘Dare You to Move’ is played, I’m gonna yell ‘gay rights’ and kd of see what their crowd do. Growg up gay the body of Christ.

While many unaffirmg gay evangelil celebri tend to talk about their sexualy as a burn, a thorn their flh, or as somethg to be overe, Semler approach their sexualy wh gratu.

My qut to fd the word ‘homosexual’ the Bible | Opn by Ed Oxford. The 22-year-old son of a gospel sger father is clearly and proudly subvertg relig inography and mic to glorify homoerotic sire — and dog so, promptg a natnal nversatn about homophobia wh the Baptist church and Black Christian culture as a ’s more, Lil Nas X is far om the the only Black queer mician explorg the lk between relign and queerns through art.

‘GAY CHRISTIAN’ MICIAN REVEALS ‘DARK CLOUD OVER THE CHRISTIAN MIC INDTRY’

Multidisciplary artist Lazas Lynch tradnal gospel harmoni his 2020 sgle, “I’m Gay, ” on which he proclaims, “I’m so ee jt beg myself. ” His words drown out the background noise of a preacher screamg, “God n't e no men tryna be women, ” and other homophobic drivel. Keiser is a proud member of the Amerin Choral Directors Associatn, and has been ducted to The Guild of Gay Relig Micians where he has received the honor of Fellow wh Honours (FGGRMhons), and has been ducted to and received the honor of Fellow om the Guild of Micians & Sgers (this honor giv him the post nomals of FGMS) the Uned Kgdom.

The shows Nashville and Empire have rporated subplots dramatizg how difficult is to be out and gay  the worlds of untry mic and hip-hop, rpectively. But if someone wanted to wre a storyle wh a gay character a genre that would make for even more heightened drama, they might want to set the world of Christian mic, where the proscriptns agast beg proudly gay have ma for a plited scenar. The nsens: Although many are personally proud of Pearson, none would ntend that an out gay person uld have a viable reer the mastream of a genre this driven by theologil nservatism.

There’s no way an openly gay artist who intifi as a Christian will get played on Christian rad. The gay CCM artists who’ve preced Pearson gog public wh their sexual orientatn — and there aren’t many — aren’t lendg Pearson any rose-lored glass about what he’s likely to face wh the genre, though they believe the personal rewards outweigh any profsnal loss.

PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?

When I me out as gay 2014, I knew my full-time Christian mic reer would most probably be over as a rult — and was. I did not know that until after I me out, when I actually was luged wh church askg me to e do shows, bee they wanted to show the muny that they’re not the same anti-gay that a lot of the public perceiv the church to be, and they want to do that rencilg work and show the world where they’re at. ” Haselte subsequently issued an apology, albe not for anythg havg to do wh gay issu, but for g Twter to lve to such a ser subject.

Billboard ntacted several proment Christian rock figur known to be supportive — publicly or, mostly, privately — of Pearson and other gay Christians who’ve e out. Anyone hopg he might bee a role mol for gay Christians was disappoted when he later announced he’d bee agnostic. “I’ve been really pleased wh the diversy of people that e to my shows, ” Knapp says, “om people who are jt there bee I’m gay and they’re gay and they like listeng to gay artists, to some people who are old-school Christian fans and don’t really unrstand everybody else around them, to people who have no ia about my history wh CCM.

It’s amazg to watch a room that’s jt not full of a homogenized group of folks, which is what I absolutely adore about movg om CCM. You don’t bee gay to make a polil statement.

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

She’s workg on gettg a theology PhD om Durham so she n speak to the biblil texts about homosexualy, and she’s a nstant prence on Brish televisn as a mentator about the and other issu. “But there was a boytt on my songs when I me out, wh people sayg that now that I’d revealed my sexual orientatn, they would never sg my songs aga their worship servic as the songs were now polluted by the s of beg gay. Whether attus will change slowly, quickly, or not at all is bated even among the gay-affirmg the dtry.

WHEN CHRISTIAN CELEBRI GO GAY

Phil Maira, a songwrer/producer who’s ma his name the Amerina world after startg out Christian mic, sympathiz wh Pearson but also, to an extent, to a CCM world that n’t sudnly embrace the gay muny wh open arms.

“Most of the people that I know who would probably not be warm to the ia of homosexualy would also be very grac about that. : the Indigo Girls, who had a signifint Christian followg at the start of their reer, before publicly acknowledgg they were gay. “I’m sure Trey will lose a number of thgs by g out, and ga a lot on a personal level, ” says Matthew V, a self-proclaimed gay evangelil and thor of the highly ntroversial God and the Gay Christian.

The church talks about the ‘gay muny’ as though ’s people out there. As of today, an openly gay profsg Christian mician has topped the “Christian” mic charts on iTun for the first time history edgg out Lren Daigle who has nsistently topped the charts for months. Ld by homosexual activists hell-bent on stroyg Christiany and replacg God wh a rabow-themed Zs, Grace Baldridge, who go by the stage name Semler, h number one.