Carl Bean, LA’s Pneer Gay Black Preacher Who Inspired Lady Gaga, Dead at 77 | LAist

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• CARL BEAN, SGER OF GAY PRI ANTHEM I WAS BORN THIS WAY, DI AGED 77
• CARL BEAN, GAY SGER WHO TURNED TO PREACHG, DI AT 77
• CARL BEAN, GAY ACTIVIST WHO INSPIRED 'BORN THIS WAY,' DEAD AT 77
• MEET THE 72-YEAR-OLD PREACHER BEHD ONE OF THE GREATT GAY CLUB ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME
• CARL BEAN, GAY BLACK PREACHER WHO SPIRED LADY GAGA'S 'BORN THIS WAY,' DI AT 77
• GOSPEL VOLIST CARL BEAN, FAMO FOR GAY PRI ANTHEM 'I WAS BORN THIS WAY', DI, AGED 77
• CARL BEAN, SGER OF PNEERG GAY PRI ANTHEM “I WAS BORN THIS WAY,” DI AT 77
• PNEERG GAY MISTER CARL BEAN DI AT 77
• ARCHBISHOP CARL BEAN, LA GAY ACTIVIST WHO SPIRED LADY GAGA SONG 'BORN THIS WAY,' DI AT 77
• LADY GAGA CELEBRAT 10 YEARS OF 'BORN THIS WAY' AND THE GAY BLACK PREACHER WHO SPIRED
• CARL BEAN, LA’S PNEER GAY BLACK PREACHER WHO INSPIRED LADY GAGA, DEAD AT 77

CARL BEAN, SGER OF GAY PRI ANTHEM I WAS BORN THIS WAY, DI AGED 77

Carl Bean, the US gospel artist and mister who sang the gay pri anthem I Was Born This Way, has died aged 77. He alleged that his uncle sexually abed him as a child, and that he was rejected by his fay for beg gay: “I felt like, now I’ma be kicked out bee I’m a queer.

Bean’s versn beme the five rendn (cludg numero dance remix), and s msage of gay pri (“I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay / I was born this way”) ma an anthem for LGBTQ+ also spired Born This Way, a worldwi h for Lady Gaga 2011. Pri that beme a much-remixed club favore — and who then beme a mister and AIDS activist, foundg a church Los Angel that sought to serve the spirual needs of gay people and others who were margalized — died on Tuday Los Angel. It did not give a Bean, who was openly gay om a young age, was a sger before he was a preacher and received the tle archbishop, rerdg gospel songs for ABC Rerds the mid-1970s as the ontman for the group Carl Bean and Universal Love.

CARL BEAN, GAY SGER WHO TURNED TO PREACHG, DI AT 77

The chos went: “Oh y I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay, y I’m gay.

”The Bean versn, wh a more pronounced dis flair and a streamled chos (“I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay; I was born this way”), beme a favore gay clubs all over the untry and abroad. “I suppose this song and s msage is a sort of mistry to gay people, ” he said the 1978 terview.

CARL BEAN, GAY ACTIVIST WHO INSPIRED 'BORN THIS WAY,' DEAD AT 77

“I am g my voice to tell gay people that they n still feel good about beg gay even if there are people like Ana Bryant around” — a reference to one of the most proment opponents of gay rights the Uny Fellowship Church MovementHe always praised Motown for backg the rerd, but, he said a 2009 terview wh the webse Out Alliance, he and the pany parted ways “when they wanted me to do songs like ‘Ooh girl I love you so’ — right after they promoted me as openly gay. He was ordaed 1982 by Archbishop William Morris O’Neal of the Universal Tabernacl of Christ Church and began workg Los Angel, wh a particular tert reachg out to gay Black people and other groups who had felt unwele mastream Christiany.

“AIDS took the cloak off for the world that homosexualy exists, pecially for mori, ” he told The Los Angel Tim 1989. “People who wanted to thk there was no such thg as a gay Black man or a gay Lato had a awakeng.

MEET THE 72-YEAR-OLD PREACHER BEHD ONE OF THE GREATT GAY CLUB ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME

“Mom was 15, Dad was 16, and they never married, ” he wrote his tobgraphy, “I Was Born This Way: A Gay Preacher’s Journey Through Gospel Mic, Dis Stardom, and a Mistry Christ” (2010), wrten wh David & SchterIn the book, he portrayed his upbrgg as a munal affair. ”But he also knew om an early age that he was gay, and eventually the muny turned on him.

Bean, an out gay man, gave up his sgg reer after beg asked to croon love songs about Motown, Bean worked to create LGBTQ+ clive church the U. "\u201cBorn This Way, my song and album, were spired by Carl Bean, a gay black relig activist who preached, sung and wrote about beg \u201cBorn This Way.

CARL BEAN, GAY BLACK PREACHER WHO SPIRED LADY GAGA'S 'BORN THIS WAY,' DI AT 77

”"Our hearts go out to all as we mourn the loss of this trailblazg lear and legend the worlds of activism, advocy, AIDS, muny outreach, fah, liberatn theology and so much more, " wrote the, an openly gay Motown and dis sger, released the song "I Was Born This Way" 1977. Wh lyrics like "Y, I'm gay/ It a't a flt, 's a fact/ I was born this way" and "I'm happy/ I'm reee/ and I'm gay/ I was born this way, " was quickly embraced as a gay liberatn anthem. ""Born This Way, my song and album, were spired by Carl Bean, a gay black relig activist who preached, sung and wrote about beg 'Born This Way, '" wrote Gaga May, alongsi photos of herself celebratg "Born This Way Day" Wt Hollywood, California; the lol holiday celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Gaga's send stud album.

Carl Bean, the US gospel artist who sang the gay pri anthem 'I Was Born This Way', has died, aged 77.

GOSPEL VOLIST CARL BEAN, FAMO FOR GAY PRI ANTHEM 'I WAS BORN THIS WAY', DI, AGED 77

He alleged that his uncle sexually abed him as a child, and that he was rejected by his fay for beg gay, sayg to Vice 2016: "I felt like, now I'ma be kicked out bee I'm a queer. Bean popularised the track, wh s gay pri msage ("I'm happy, I'm reee and I'm gay / I was born this way") makg a long-standg anthem wh the LGBTQ+ Pri movement and also providg the spiratn for Lady Gaga's 2011 smash 'Born This Way'.

Archbishop Carl Bean, the gospel sger behd the gay pri dis anthem “I Was Born This Way, ” has died after a “lengthy illns, ” The Guardian reports. Its lyrics were straightforward and notably progrsive for the era: “I’m happy, I’m reee, and I’m gay, ” Bean sgs the chos.

CARL BEAN, SGER OF PNEERG GAY PRI ANTHEM “I WAS BORN THIS WAY,” DI AT 77

Motown rerdg artist turned pneerg gay mister and AIDS activist Carl Bean died Tuday at age 77, the Los Angel Sentel was ordaed as a mister 1982, the year he found the Uny Fellowship Church for openly gay and lbian Ain 1992, Bean was nsecrated as the first pridg bishop of the Uny Fellowship Church Movement, and beme the first archbishop of the movement 1999.

PNEERG GAY MISTER CARL BEAN DI AT 77

His rerdg reer clud, “I Was Born This Way, ” rerd wh the Sweet Inspiratns, the first gay liberatn dance club the height of his rerdg reer, he worked wh Dnne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, Mil Davis, and Sammy Davis wrote his tobgraphy 2010, “I Was Born This Way: A Gay Preacher’s Journey Through Gospel Mic, Dis Stardom and a Mistry Christ. “He did this durg a time when the rourc and attentn were foced on whe gay men and not muni of lor. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Archbishop Carl Bean, a proment Los Angel gay activist and sger who spired the Lady Gaga song "Born This Way, " has, founr of the Uny Fellowship of Christ Church Los Angel, was was an in the LGBT+ muny, an out-and-proud gay man and a Christian.

Ordaed as a mister 1982, Bean soon found the church as a mistry open and welg to gay church's crt reads: "God is love and love is for everyone. It's still operatn today and dited to helpg low-e people at high risk or livg wh HIV/ told his life story the 2010 book "I Was Born This Way: A Gay Preacher's Journey through Gospel Mic, Dis Stardom, and a Mistry Christ.

ARCHBISHOP CARL BEAN, LA GAY ACTIVIST WHO SPIRED LADY GAGA SONG 'BORN THIS WAY,' DI AT 77

"The song beme an early gay anthem, eventually peakg at No. “Archbishop Bean worked tirelsly for the liberatn of the unrserved and for LGBTQ people of fah and dog so, helped many around the world fd their way back to spirualy and relign, ” the statement 1944 Baltimore, Bean faced rejectn om his fay for beg gay, leavg to pursue a mic reer at age 16. He rerd the song for which he’s bt known 1977, which clus the lyrics, “I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay / I was born this way.

LADY GAGA CELEBRAT 10 YEARS OF 'BORN THIS WAY' AND THE GAY BLACK PREACHER WHO SPIRED

” Bean’s versn quickly supplanted Valento’s earlier 1975 rerdg as the inic take on the song the club than 30 years later, Lady Gaga rried forward Bean’s legacy wh a gay anthem of her own. “I had done nothg but be born gay, ” Bean told the Los Angel Tim ’s no “Born This Way” whout Carl Bean.

CARL BEAN, LA’S PNEER GAY BLACK PREACHER WHO INSPIRED LADY GAGA, DEAD AT 77

"Born This Way, my song and album, were spired by Carl Bean, a gay black relig activist who preached, sung and wrote about beg 'Born This Way, '" Gaga wrote alongsi photos of herself om Sunday's ceremony. "Bean — an openly gay Motown and dis sger who later tablished the Uny Fellowship Church Movement Los Angel, which wel and supports gay, lbian and transgenr Ain Amerins — sang the song "I Was Born This Way" song was quickly embraced as a gay liberatn anthem, wh lyrics like "Y, I'm gay/ It a't a flt, 's a fact/ I was born this way" and "I'm happy/ I'm reee/ and I'm gay/ I was born this way.

" In a vio promotg his book, Bean said that he had "always been out of the closet" and never hidn his inty as a gay man. Carl Bean, a gay in who ped a hardscrabble childhood Baltimore to bee a Motown sger, founr of an LGBT church work and eventually an archbishop, has died.

He end up a mental hospal, where — as a gay man livg at a time when homosexualy was pathologized — he was offered electroshock therapy as a treatment, which he risted.