For my generatn of Amerin gay men, the AIDS epimic was a send Vietnam War. A long-overdue historil survey of the era has fally arrived.
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ART AIDS AMERI REVIEW – GAY ARTISTS CHANNEL ANGUISH, ANGER AND TIMACY
On a few of the album’s tracks, Act -wrote wh gay micians Sam Sparro and Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters.
His sophomore release om that year, Hi Nothg, was a lovely surprise. And whether he’s kept a low profile sce then bee he’s livg his life or bee ’s hard for an pennt mician to get tractn this world, he’s still the pg ballaer wh which a young gay man might fall love. Yet back the ’70s was slim pickgs for openly gay artists, and we all knew how to read an artist that ma a joke about beg “bi-astal” (he even named an album that) while throwg himself across the stage like a hyperactive chore on a Broadway belter like “I Go to R.
Long before I knew they were all gay (except for Cdy), I loved them for their crazy sound. The late blu sger was well-nnected and openly gay the ’60s — he had a brief relatnship wh Dave Davi of The Kks.