Gay Pop Legend Gee Michael to Be Immortalized Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Contents:

• MICHAEL GAY
• MICHAEL GAY
• WHEN GEE MICHAEL ME OUT AS GAY ON LIVE TV AND SPIRED A GENERATN
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• GAY SGER GEE MICHAEL WAS FOUND DEAD ON CHRISTMAS OF 2016 & BURIED UNMARKED GRAVE FOR YEARS
• GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
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WH HIGH SCHOOL IEND ANDREW RIDGELEY. IN 1984, THE DUO HAD THEIR FIRST WORLDWI H WH "WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO." TWO YEARS LATER, MICHAEL WENT SOLO, RELEASG A H BUT ALBUM FAH, WHICH HAS SOLD MORE THAN 25 LN PI WORLDWI. IN 1998, MICHAEL ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS GAY AFTER BEG ARRTED FOR LEWD NDUCT A PUBLIC RTROOM. MICHAEL NTUED TO PERFORM AND HIS REER HAD A REBOOT THE MID-2000S WH THE RELEASE OF HIS GREATT HS ALBUM TWENTY FIVE. HE NTUED TO TOUR AND DONATED MUCH OF HIS TIME AND WEALTH TO CHARY. MICHAEL DIED OF HEART AND LIVER DISEASE ON DECEMBER 25, 2016, HIS HOME ENGLAND AT THE AGE OF 53.EARLY LIFE AND WHAM!MICHAEL WAS BORN GES KYRIAS PANAYTOU ON JUNE 25, 1963, EAST FCHLEY, LONDON, ENGLAND. ONE OF THE LEADG ARTISTS POPULAR MIC THE 1980S AND 1990S, HE GREW UP AND AROUND LONDON, WHERE HE VELOPED HIS PASSN FOR MIC AT AN EARLY AGE. WHILE HIGH SCHOOL, MICHAEL BEIEND ANDREW RIDGELEY, WH WHOM HE SHARED A LOVE OF POP MIC AND THEY BEGAN PLAYG MIC TOGETHER. BY SOME REPORTS, MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY WERE AN UNLIKELY DUO. MICHAEL WAS PUDGY AND SHY, WHILE RIDGELEY WAS ATTRACTIVE AND OUTGOG. DROPPG OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY STARTED A SHORT-LIVED SKA BAND LLED THE EXECUTIVE. THAT BAND ONLY PLAYED A FEW GIGS BEFORE FELL APART, BUT MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY SOON FOUND SUCCS. IN 1982, THEY LAND A RERDG NTRACT WH INNERVISN RERDS AND BEME KNOWN AS WHAM! THEIR FIRST ALBUM, FANTASTIC!, WAS RELEASED THE UNED KGDOM 1982, AND CLIMBED AS HIGH AS THE NO. 4 SPOT ON THE CHARTS THERE ( WAS RELEASED THE UNED STAT THE FOLLOWG YEAR). WH THEIR YOUTHFUL GOOD LOOKS, WHAM! SOON VELOPED A VOTED FOLLOWG AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS.SONGS: "WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO" AND "CARELS WHISPER" WH THEIR TCHY, MOTOWN-FLUENCED SOUND, WHAM! LIVED UP TO THE TLE OF THEIR SEND ALBUM, MAKE IT BIG (1984). THEY SRED THEIR FIRST NUMBER ONE H THE UNED STAT WH "WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO." THE UP-TEMPO H "EVERYTHG SHE WANTS" AND THE BALLAD "CARELS WHISPER" ALSO REACHED THE TOP OF THE U.S. CHARTS. IN 1984, MICHAEL ALSO PERFORMED WH THE CHARY BAND AID ON THE HOLIDAY SGLE "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?" TO BENEF ETHPIAN FAME RELIEF. MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY ALSO DONATED THE PROCEEDS OF THEIR H HOLIDAY SGLE ”LAST CHRISTMAS"/"EVERYTHG SHE WANTS" TO BAND AID’S CHARABLE EFFORTS. A YEAR LATER ON APRIL 7, 1985, WHAM! MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST WTERN POP GROUP TO PERFORM CHA. ON JULY 13, 1985, WHAM! PERFORMED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR ETHPIAN FAME AGA, AT LIVE AID, AND WAS THERE THAT MICHAEL AND {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ELTON JOHN SANG JOHN'S CLASSIC "DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME," AT WEMBLEY STADIUM LONDON.AS THE LEAD VOLIST AND MA SONGWRER, MICHAEL EMERGED AS THE STAR OF THE GROUP. IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE HE BROKE OUT ON HIS OWN. HE LEFT AFTER THE GROUP'S 1986 RERDG, MIC OM THE EDGE OF HEAVEN. WHILE WAS NOT AS BIG OF A H AS THEIR EARLIER EFFORTS, THE ALBUM STILL HAD SEVERAL POPULAR SGL, CLUDG "WHERE DID YOUR HEART GO?" AND "I'M YOUR MAN."'FAH'AS A SOLO ARTIST, MICHAEL EARNED HIS FIRST GRAMMY AWARD FOR A DUET WH SOUL IN ARETHA FRANKL. THEIR SGLE, "I KNEW YOU WERE WAG," WON BT R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WH VOL 1987. THAT SAME YEAR, HE MA AN IMPRSIVE BUT WH FAH (1987). TRYG TO SHED HIS TEEN HEARTTHROB IMAGE, HE WENT FOR AN EDGIER LOOK, OFTEN SPORTG A LEATHER JACKET AND A FEW DAYS' WORTH OF STUBBLE. MILLY, HE TOOK A FUNKIER DIRECTN AS WELL WH THE ALBUM. DRIVEN PART BY THE NUMBER ONE TLE TRACK, THE RERDG REACHED THE TOP OF THE ALBUM CHARTS. OTHER HS CLUD "FATHER FIGURE," "MONKEY," AND "ONE MORE TRY." MICHAEL ALSO URTED NTROVERSY WH ANOTHER TRACK ON THE ALBUM—"I WANT YOUR SEX." SOME RAD STATNS THE UNED STAT REFED TO PLAY BEE OF S EXPLIC NTENT WHILE OTHERS WOULD ONLY PLAY LATE AT NIGHT FOR THE SAME REASON. DPE THE CENSORSHIP, FAH WENT ON TO SELL MORE THAN 25 LN PI WORLDWI AND WON THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1988. CONTUG HIS MIL EVOLUTN, MICHAEL RPORATED SOULFUL AND JAZZ ELEMENTS TO HIS SONGS ON LISTEN WHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 (1990). THE ALBUM FEATURED A FEW HS, CLUDG "PRAYG FOR TIME." FURTHER DISTANCG HIMSELF OM HIS POP IMAGE, HE CHOSE NOT TO STAR THE VIO FOR "FREEDOM 90." INSTEAD, THE VIO FEATURED SUCH MOLS AS NAOMI CAMPBELL, CHRISTY TURLGTON AND CDY CRAWFORD.SOLO CAREERWHILE LISTEN WHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 RECEIVED SOME POSIVE REVIEWS, THE ALBUM ONLY SOLD ABOUT 1 LN PI. MICHAEL BEME VOLVED A LEGAL BATTLE WH HIS RERDG PANY SONY. FEELG THAT THEY HAD FAILED TO PROPERLY PROMOTE THE RERD, HE WANTED TO END HIS RERDG NTRACT. THE NFLICT DRAGGED ON FOR SEVERAL YEARS, DURG WHICH TIME MICHAEL RERD ONLY A FEW SGL. IN 1991, MICHAEL REPRISED "DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME," HIS DUET WH ELTON JOHN, FOR CHARY. IT BEME A NO. 1 H, WH THE PROCEEDS GOG TO LONDON LIGHTHOE, AN AIDS HOSPICE, AND THE RABOW TST CHILDREN'S CHARY. LATER THAT YEAR, MICHAEL H THE CHARTS WH "TOO FUNKY," A TRACK FEATURED ON RED HOT AND DANCE, AN AIDS CHARY ALBUM. FALLY EE OM HIS NTRACT WH SONY, MICHAEL RELEASED THE ALBUM OLR 1996. TWO TRACKS, "J TO A CHILD" AND "FASTLOVE," BROKE TO THE TOP 10 THE UNED STAT AS DID THE ALBUM. STILL, THE SAL FOR THE RERDG PALED PARISON TO HIS EARLIER EFFORTS WH SOME ATTRIBUTG THIS CLE TO MICHAEL'S TIME AWAY OM THE POP MIC SCENE. MICHAEL DID W SEVERAL ACLAS FOR HIS WORK, HOWEVER, TAKG HOME THE AWARD FOR BT BRISH MALE AT THE BRIT AWARDS AND THE MTV EUROPE AWARDS THAT YEAR.PERSONAL LIFE AND CONTROVERSYIN 1998, MICHAEL MA HEADL, THOUGH THIS TIME NOT FOR HIS MIC. HE WAS ARRTED FOR LEWD NDUCT A MEN'S ROOM AT A PUBLIC PARK LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. AFTER THE CINT, MICHAEL MA A TELEVISN APPEARANCE WHICH HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE WAS HOMOSEXUAL. THERE HAD BEEN SOME SPECULATN ABOUT HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OVER THE YEARS, BUT THIS WAS HIS FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT ON THE MATTER. HIS NEXT MIL EFFORT WAS A LLECTN OF VERS, SONGS OM THE LAST CENTURY (1999). WHILE RECEIVED SOME POSIVE REVIEWS, ALBUM SAL LAGGED AND WAS HIS LOWT CHARTG ALBUM THE UNED KGDOM. MICHAEL RERD SEVERAL SGL OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, CLUDG A 2000 DUET WH WHNEY HOTON ON THE SONG "IF I TOLD YOU THAT." MICHAEL RELEASED HIS FOURTH SOLO ALBUM, PATIENCE, 2004. INSTEAD OF THE POP CHARTS, HE FOUND SUCCS ON THE DANCE CHARTS. "FLAWLS" AND "AMAZG" BOTH SRED WELL WH DANCE MIC FANS. AFTER THIS RERD, MICHAEL MA MENTS ABOUT GIVG UP THE MIC BS, BUT HIS MORED RETIREMENT WOULD PROVE TO BE SHORT LIVED. A DIFFERENT STORY, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MICHAEL'S LIFE AND REER, WAS RELEASED 2005. IN FEBARY 2006, MICHAEL HAD ANOTHER ENUNTER WH THE LAW AND WAS ARRTED ON SPICN OF ILLEGAL DGS LONDON. ACRDG TO A REPORT ROLLG STONE MAGAZE, THE SGER SAID A STATEMENT THAT "'S MY OWN STUPID FLT, AS UAL." A FEW MONTHS LATER, MICHAEL ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS GOG ON TOUR FOR THE FIRST TIME 15 YEARS. HE ALSO RELEASED A LLECTN OF HIS SONGS, ENTLED TWENTY FIVE, THE UNED KGDOM. THE WORK, WHICH CLUD SOME NEW MATERIAL, WAS A CELEBRATN OF MICHAEL'S 25 YEARS MIC.COMEBACKRURRECTG HIS REER THE UNED STAT 2008, MICHAEL MA SEVERAL APPEARANC, RELEASED TWENTY FIVE STATI AND GUT-STARRED ON THE TELEVISN SERI ELI STONE AS A MIL GUARDIAN ANGEL OF SORTS. THE SHOW ALSO FEATURED SOME OF HIS CLASSIC HS. HE WENT ON TO PERFORM ON THE SERI FALE OF THE POPULAR MIL PETN SHOW AMERIN IDOL BEFORE EMBARKG ON A NATNAL TOUR THE SUMMER OF 2008. IN APRIL 2011, MICHAEL RELEASED A VER OF STEVIE WONR'S 1972 SONG, "YOU AND I," AS A GIFT TO PRCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON PRR TO THE UPLE'S WEDDG. IN AUGT OF THAT YEAR, THE SGER-SONGWRER BEGAN PERFORMG AS PART OF HIS SYMPHONI TOUR, WHICH END EARLY AFTER MICHAEL FELL ILL WH PNMONIA A FEW MONTHS TO THE SERI. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, MICHAEL PERFORMED "FREEDOM! 90" AND "WHE LIGHT" AT THE CLOSG CEREMONY OF THE 2012 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAM, HELD LONDON. IN MAY 2013, A 49-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL WAS AIRLIFTED TO A MEDIL FACILY LONDON, ENGLAND, AFTER BEG VOLVED AN ACCINT ON THE M1 MOTORWAY NEAR ST. ALBANS. MICHAEL HAD REPORTEDLY BEEN FOUND AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCINT BY PARAMEDICS AND HAD NOT BEEN SERLY JURED. IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE, MICHAEL WAS A 13-YEAR RELATNSHIP WH KENNY GOSS THAT END 2009. MICHAEL BEGAN A RELATNSHIP WH CELEBRY HAIR STYLIST FADI FAWAZ THAT YEAR UNTIL THE POP IN'S UNTIMELY ATH 2016. AT THE TIME OF HIS ATH, MICHAEL WAS WORKG ON FREEDOM, A SEND DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIS LIFE, WHICH WAS RELEASED 2017.DEATHMICHAEL DIED ON DECEMBER 25, 2016, AT THE AGE OF 53. AN TOPSY LATER REVEALED THAT THE POP STAR HAD DIED OM NATURAL RELATED TO HEART AND LIVER DISEASE. MICHAEL'S PARTNER FAWAZ FOUND HIM AD AT HIS HOME OXFORDSHIRE ON CHRISTMAS MORNG."IT IS WH GREAT SADNS THAT WE N NFIRM OUR BELOVED SON, BROTHER AND IEND GEE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT HOME OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERD," READ A STATEMENT BY HIS PUBLICIST. FOLLOWG HIS ATH, MANY CHARI AND DIVIDUALS POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT MICHAEL'S GENERO PHILANTHROPIC ACTS AND HOW HE OFTEN DONATED HIS TIME AND MUCH OF HIS WEALTH ANONYMOLY. THE POP STAR AVOID MAKG HEADL FOR HIS MANY ACTS OF KDNS, WHICH CLUD VOLUNTEERG AT A HOMELS SHELTER, PAYG FOR A WOMAN'S FERTILY TREATMENTS AND TIPPG A WARS THOANDS OF DOLLARS TO HELP HER PAY FOR HER NURSG SCHOOL BTS. HE ALSO ANONYMOLY GAVE LNS OF DOLLARS TO CHARI, CLUDG CHILDLE, A UNSELG SERVICE FOR CHILDREN THE U.K. "NO ONE OUTSI THE CHARY KNEW HOW MUCH HE GAVE TO THE NATN'S MOST VULNERABLE CHILDREN," SAID DAME ESTHER RANTZEN, THE CHARY’S FOUNR, SAID AN TERVIEW WH THE BRISH NEWS OUTLET {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• MICHAEL BOLTON GAY: SGER ANNOUNC NEW ROMANCE AMID SEXUALY ASSUMPTNS!
• GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME

MICHAEL GAY

Michael Gay is a Mneapolis-based untry folk storyteller. Gog om a full band to a more stripped-down sound, Michael Gay started performg unr his own name 2020, right around the time he started rerdg his new album Nashville.

When not makg his own mic and not livg through a panmic, Michael Gay works as a tour manager and produc the Pony Rug live mic vio seri, which has featured Mneapolis-based songwrers like Chris Koza, Vicky Emerson, and The Lowt Pair’s Palmer T. The 2023 Gay Softball World Seri Chary Concert ft.

MICHAEL GAY

Michael Gay. Gee Michael appeared on televisn 1998 revealg he was gay for the first time and spirg the world wh the words: "I don’t feel any shame whatsoever.

""I thk people like to thk they n spot a gay person as opposed to a straight person bee mak them feel somethg … a ltle more fed themselv. Watch: Gee Michael's last ncert - his fal words were heartbreakgly poignant"I spent the first half of my reer beg acced of beg gay when I hadn’t had anythg like a gay relatnship. I want people to know that I have not been exposed as a gay man any way that I feel … I don’t feel any shame for...

And neher do I thk I should, " he Gee Michael's heartbreakg poetry at 11-years-old prov the star's early talentJim go on to ask Gee about his life-changg reveal, sayg: "Was a difficult cisn for you to e out publicly about beg gay?

WHEN GEE MICHAEL ME OUT AS GAY ON LIVE TV AND SPIRED A GENERATN

He adds: "I fe my sexualy terms of the people that I love and my life right now is very happy livg a gay relatnship. "And I’m perfectly prepared to believe that as long as I am tthful to myself and tthful to the people who are out there wh my mic then I have nothg to fear, " he Moret has sce said of the famo terview: "Gee Michael believed the Brish tabloids were gog to out him as gay and he wanted to beat them to the punch and he me out to me, his own words, his own way, "After g out as gay, Gee Michael beme a public activist for HIV and AIDS, shg a light on the plight of sufferers worldwi and donatg lns to charable throughout his life.

Here, we take a look at 35 famo gay sgers who have graced wh their mic: 1. While he kept much of his personal life private, Mercury has been an in for the gay muny for s, though he sadly died om HIV/AIDS 1991.

Halford me out as gay an MTV terview 1998, llg a “wonrful day for me. ” Halford’s epic vols have shaped and spired untls heavy metal acts to follow, makg him one of the most fluential gay sgers of all time. Next: The bt gay songs for the LGBTQ muny 4.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

His send album, Trpassg, ma him the first openly gay sger to have an album reach number one on the Billboard 200 charts. Bass me out 2006 as gay a People magaze ver story and ntu to play mic and act on televisn and movi.

The “Kg of Lat Pop, ” Ricky Mart me out as gay 2010.

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

In a 2012 open letter, Ocean opened up about his homosexualy. She has been open about her homosexualy sce 2002. Next: Ultimate list of the bt gay rappers of all time 28.

He has been open about beg gay sce he me out publicly a YouTube vio 2013.

Wawright has been open about his homosexualy sce his teenage years. Tennant publicly me out as gay a 1994 terview wh Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu.

GAY SGER GEE MICHAEL WAS FOUND DEAD ON CHRISTMAS OF 2016 & BURIED UNMARKED GRAVE FOR YEARS

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 we’re ditg today’s article to the bt gay sgers and micians of all time. Demi Lovato Bt Gay Sgers & Micians Of All Time – Fal Thoughts.

Not long ago, beg openly gay often wasn’t well-received by the public and mic dtry. And that’s why gay rockstars were so important – and Freddie Mercury was probably the most fluential.

GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME

Although Mercury did keep his personal life private, he has been celebrated gay muny for s.

Ricky Mart is the ‘Kg of Lat Pop’, but he is also one of the most famo gay pop sgers. He me out as gay 2010, when he was already a big star.

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.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

He clared he is bisexual the 70s, but he officially me out as gay to Rollg Stone magaze 1992. 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. Halford me out as gay an terview 1988. Well, he is certaly makg a difference, pecially the metal genre, which mak him one of the most fluential gay sgers mic dtry.

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

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. 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.

And Sam Smh is one of the most fluential gay sgers of this century. She me out publicly as lbian 1993, and she has been a gay rights activist sce then. He me out as gay 2006, a ver story for People magaze.

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WH HIGH SCHOOL IEND ANDREW RIDGELEY. IN 1984, THE DUO HAD THEIR FIRST WORLDWI H WH "WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO." TWO YEARS LATER, MICHAEL WENT SOLO, RELEASG A H BUT ALBUM FAH, WHICH HAS SOLD MORE THAN 25 LN PI WORLDWI. IN 1998, MICHAEL ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS GAY AFTER BEG ARRTED FOR LEWD NDUCT A PUBLIC RTROOM. MICHAEL NTUED TO PERFORM AND HIS REER HAD A REBOOT THE MID-2000S WH THE RELEASE OF HIS GREATT HS ALBUM TWENTY FIVE. HE NTUED TO TOUR AND DONATED MUCH OF HIS TIME AND WEALTH TO CHARY. MICHAEL DIED OF HEART AND LIVER DISEASE ON DECEMBER 25, 2016, HIS HOME ENGLAND AT THE AGE OF 53.EARLY LIFE AND WHAM!MICHAEL WAS BORN GES KYRIAS PANAYTOU ON JUNE 25, 1963, EAST FCHLEY, LONDON, ENGLAND. ONE OF THE LEADG ARTISTS POPULAR MIC THE 1980S AND 1990S, HE GREW UP AND AROUND LONDON, WHERE HE VELOPED HIS PASSN FOR MIC AT AN EARLY AGE. WHILE HIGH SCHOOL, MICHAEL BEIEND ANDREW RIDGELEY, WH WHOM HE SHARED A LOVE OF POP MIC AND THEY BEGAN PLAYG MIC TOGETHER. BY SOME REPORTS, MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY WERE AN UNLIKELY DUO. MICHAEL WAS PUDGY AND SHY, WHILE RIDGELEY WAS ATTRACTIVE AND OUTGOG. DROPPG OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY STARTED A SHORT-LIVED SKA BAND LLED THE EXECUTIVE. THAT BAND ONLY PLAYED A FEW GIGS BEFORE FELL APART, BUT MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY SOON FOUND SUCCS. IN 1982, THEY LAND A RERDG NTRACT WH INNERVISN RERDS AND BEME KNOWN AS WHAM! THEIR FIRST ALBUM, FANTASTIC!, WAS RELEASED THE UNED KGDOM 1982, AND CLIMBED AS HIGH AS THE NO. 4 SPOT ON THE CHARTS THERE ( WAS RELEASED THE UNED STAT THE FOLLOWG YEAR). WH THEIR YOUTHFUL GOOD LOOKS, WHAM! SOON VELOPED A VOTED FOLLOWG AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS.SONGS: "WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO" AND "CARELS WHISPER" WH THEIR TCHY, MOTOWN-FLUENCED SOUND, WHAM! LIVED UP TO THE TLE OF THEIR SEND ALBUM, MAKE IT BIG (1984). THEY SRED THEIR FIRST NUMBER ONE H THE UNED STAT WH "WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO." THE UP-TEMPO H "EVERYTHG SHE WANTS" AND THE BALLAD "CARELS WHISPER" ALSO REACHED THE TOP OF THE U.S. CHARTS. IN 1984, MICHAEL ALSO PERFORMED WH THE CHARY BAND AID ON THE HOLIDAY SGLE "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?" TO BENEF ETHPIAN FAME RELIEF. MICHAEL AND RIDGELEY ALSO DONATED THE PROCEEDS OF THEIR H HOLIDAY SGLE ”LAST CHRISTMAS"/"EVERYTHG SHE WANTS" TO BAND AID’S CHARABLE EFFORTS. A YEAR LATER ON APRIL 7, 1985, WHAM! MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST WTERN POP GROUP TO PERFORM CHA. ON JULY 13, 1985, WHAM! PERFORMED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR ETHPIAN FAME AGA, AT LIVE AID, AND WAS THERE THAT MICHAEL AND {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ELTON JOHN SANG JOHN'S CLASSIC "DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME," AT WEMBLEY STADIUM LONDON.AS THE LEAD VOLIST AND MA SONGWRER, MICHAEL EMERGED AS THE STAR OF THE GROUP. IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE HE BROKE OUT ON HIS OWN. HE LEFT AFTER THE GROUP'S 1986 RERDG, MIC OM THE EDGE OF HEAVEN. WHILE WAS NOT AS BIG OF A H AS THEIR EARLIER EFFORTS, THE ALBUM STILL HAD SEVERAL POPULAR SGL, CLUDG "WHERE DID YOUR HEART GO?" AND "I'M YOUR MAN."'FAH'AS A SOLO ARTIST, MICHAEL EARNED HIS FIRST GRAMMY AWARD FOR A DUET WH SOUL IN ARETHA FRANKL. THEIR SGLE, "I KNEW YOU WERE WAG," WON BT R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WH VOL 1987. THAT SAME YEAR, HE MA AN IMPRSIVE BUT WH FAH (1987). TRYG TO SHED HIS TEEN HEARTTHROB IMAGE, HE WENT FOR AN EDGIER LOOK, OFTEN SPORTG A LEATHER JACKET AND A FEW DAYS' WORTH OF STUBBLE. MILLY, HE TOOK A FUNKIER DIRECTN AS WELL WH THE ALBUM. DRIVEN PART BY THE NUMBER ONE TLE TRACK, THE RERDG REACHED THE TOP OF THE ALBUM CHARTS. OTHER HS CLUD "FATHER FIGURE," "MONKEY," AND "ONE MORE TRY." MICHAEL ALSO URTED NTROVERSY WH ANOTHER TRACK ON THE ALBUM—"I WANT YOUR SEX." SOME RAD STATNS THE UNED STAT REFED TO PLAY BEE OF S EXPLIC NTENT WHILE OTHERS WOULD ONLY PLAY LATE AT NIGHT FOR THE SAME REASON. DPE THE CENSORSHIP, FAH WENT ON TO SELL MORE THAN 25 LN PI WORLDWI AND WON THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1988. CONTUG HIS MIL EVOLUTN, MICHAEL RPORATED SOULFUL AND JAZZ ELEMENTS TO HIS SONGS ON LISTEN WHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 (1990). THE ALBUM FEATURED A FEW HS, CLUDG "PRAYG FOR TIME." FURTHER DISTANCG HIMSELF OM HIS POP IMAGE, HE CHOSE NOT TO STAR THE VIO FOR "FREEDOM 90." INSTEAD, THE VIO FEATURED SUCH MOLS AS NAOMI CAMPBELL, CHRISTY TURLGTON AND CDY CRAWFORD.SOLO CAREERWHILE LISTEN WHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 RECEIVED SOME POSIVE REVIEWS, THE ALBUM ONLY SOLD ABOUT 1 LN PI. MICHAEL BEME VOLVED A LEGAL BATTLE WH HIS RERDG PANY SONY. FEELG THAT THEY HAD FAILED TO PROPERLY PROMOTE THE RERD, HE WANTED TO END HIS RERDG NTRACT. THE NFLICT DRAGGED ON FOR SEVERAL YEARS, DURG WHICH TIME MICHAEL RERD ONLY A FEW SGL. IN 1991, MICHAEL REPRISED "DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME," HIS DUET WH ELTON JOHN, FOR CHARY. IT BEME A NO. 1 H, WH THE PROCEEDS GOG TO LONDON LIGHTHOE, AN AIDS HOSPICE, AND THE RABOW TST CHILDREN'S CHARY. LATER THAT YEAR, MICHAEL H THE CHARTS WH "TOO FUNKY," A TRACK FEATURED ON RED HOT AND DANCE, AN AIDS CHARY ALBUM. FALLY EE OM HIS NTRACT WH SONY, MICHAEL RELEASED THE ALBUM OLR 1996. TWO TRACKS, "J TO A CHILD" AND "FASTLOVE," BROKE TO THE TOP 10 THE UNED STAT AS DID THE ALBUM. STILL, THE SAL FOR THE RERDG PALED PARISON TO HIS EARLIER EFFORTS WH SOME ATTRIBUTG THIS CLE TO MICHAEL'S TIME AWAY OM THE POP MIC SCENE. MICHAEL DID W SEVERAL ACLAS FOR HIS WORK, HOWEVER, TAKG HOME THE AWARD FOR BT BRISH MALE AT THE BRIT AWARDS AND THE MTV EUROPE AWARDS THAT YEAR.PERSONAL LIFE AND CONTROVERSYIN 1998, MICHAEL MA HEADL, THOUGH THIS TIME NOT FOR HIS MIC. HE WAS ARRTED FOR LEWD NDUCT A MEN'S ROOM AT A PUBLIC PARK LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. AFTER THE CINT, MICHAEL MA A TELEVISN APPEARANCE WHICH HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE WAS HOMOSEXUAL. THERE HAD BEEN SOME SPECULATN ABOUT HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OVER THE YEARS, BUT THIS WAS HIS FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT ON THE MATTER. HIS NEXT MIL EFFORT WAS A LLECTN OF VERS, SONGS OM THE LAST CENTURY (1999). WHILE RECEIVED SOME POSIVE REVIEWS, ALBUM SAL LAGGED AND WAS HIS LOWT CHARTG ALBUM THE UNED KGDOM. MICHAEL RERD SEVERAL SGL OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, CLUDG A 2000 DUET WH WHNEY HOTON ON THE SONG "IF I TOLD YOU THAT." MICHAEL RELEASED HIS FOURTH SOLO ALBUM, PATIENCE, 2004. INSTEAD OF THE POP CHARTS, HE FOUND SUCCS ON THE DANCE CHARTS. "FLAWLS" AND "AMAZG" BOTH SRED WELL WH DANCE MIC FANS. AFTER THIS RERD, MICHAEL MA MENTS ABOUT GIVG UP THE MIC BS, BUT HIS MORED RETIREMENT WOULD PROVE TO BE SHORT LIVED. A DIFFERENT STORY, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MICHAEL'S LIFE AND REER, WAS RELEASED 2005. IN FEBARY 2006, MICHAEL HAD ANOTHER ENUNTER WH THE LAW AND WAS ARRTED ON SPICN OF ILLEGAL DGS LONDON. ACRDG TO A REPORT ROLLG STONE MAGAZE, THE SGER SAID A STATEMENT THAT "'S MY OWN STUPID FLT, AS UAL." A FEW MONTHS LATER, MICHAEL ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS GOG ON TOUR FOR THE FIRST TIME 15 YEARS. HE ALSO RELEASED A LLECTN OF HIS SONGS, ENTLED TWENTY FIVE, THE UNED KGDOM. THE WORK, WHICH CLUD SOME NEW MATERIAL, WAS A CELEBRATN OF MICHAEL'S 25 YEARS MIC.COMEBACKRURRECTG HIS REER THE UNED STAT 2008, MICHAEL MA SEVERAL APPEARANC, RELEASED TWENTY FIVE STATI AND GUT-STARRED ON THE TELEVISN SERI ELI STONE AS A MIL GUARDIAN ANGEL OF SORTS. THE SHOW ALSO FEATURED SOME OF HIS CLASSIC HS. HE WENT ON TO PERFORM ON THE SERI FALE OF THE POPULAR MIL PETN SHOW AMERIN IDOL BEFORE EMBARKG ON A NATNAL TOUR THE SUMMER OF 2008. IN APRIL 2011, MICHAEL RELEASED A VER OF STEVIE WONR'S 1972 SONG, "YOU AND I," AS A GIFT TO PRCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON PRR TO THE UPLE'S WEDDG. IN AUGT OF THAT YEAR, THE SGER-SONGWRER BEGAN PERFORMG AS PART OF HIS SYMPHONI TOUR, WHICH END EARLY AFTER MICHAEL FELL ILL WH PNMONIA A FEW MONTHS TO THE SERI. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, MICHAEL PERFORMED "FREEDOM! 90" AND "WHE LIGHT" AT THE CLOSG CEREMONY OF THE 2012 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAM, HELD LONDON. IN MAY 2013, A 49-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL WAS AIRLIFTED TO A MEDIL FACILY LONDON, ENGLAND, AFTER BEG VOLVED AN ACCINT ON THE M1 MOTORWAY NEAR ST. ALBANS. MICHAEL HAD REPORTEDLY BEEN FOUND AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCINT BY PARAMEDICS AND HAD NOT BEEN SERLY JURED. IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE, MICHAEL WAS A 13-YEAR RELATNSHIP WH KENNY GOSS THAT END 2009. MICHAEL BEGAN A RELATNSHIP WH CELEBRY HAIR STYLIST FADI FAWAZ THAT YEAR UNTIL THE POP IN'S UNTIMELY ATH 2016. AT THE TIME OF HIS ATH, MICHAEL WAS WORKG ON FREEDOM, A SEND DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIS LIFE, WHICH WAS RELEASED 2017.DEATHMICHAEL DIED ON DECEMBER 25, 2016, AT THE AGE OF 53. AN TOPSY LATER REVEALED THAT THE POP STAR HAD DIED OM NATURAL RELATED TO HEART AND LIVER DISEASE. MICHAEL'S PARTNER FAWAZ FOUND HIM AD AT HIS HOME OXFORDSHIRE ON CHRISTMAS MORNG."IT IS WH GREAT SADNS THAT WE N NFIRM OUR BELOVED SON, BROTHER AND IEND GEE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT HOME OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERD," READ A STATEMENT BY HIS PUBLICIST. FOLLOWG HIS ATH, MANY CHARI AND DIVIDUALS POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT MICHAEL'S GENERO PHILANTHROPIC ACTS AND HOW HE OFTEN DONATED HIS TIME AND MUCH OF HIS WEALTH ANONYMOLY. THE POP STAR AVOID MAKG HEADL FOR HIS MANY ACTS OF KDNS, WHICH CLUD VOLUNTEERG AT A HOMELS SHELTER, PAYG FOR A WOMAN'S FERTILY TREATMENTS AND TIPPG A WARS THOANDS OF DOLLARS TO HELP HER PAY FOR HER NURSG SCHOOL BTS. HE ALSO ANONYMOLY GAVE LNS OF DOLLARS TO CHARI, CLUDG CHILDLE, A UNSELG SERVICE FOR CHILDREN THE U.K. "NO ONE OUTSI THE CHARY KNEW HOW MUCH HE GAVE TO THE NATN'S MOST VULNERABLE CHILDREN," SAID DAME ESTHER RANTZEN, THE CHARY’S FOUNR, SAID AN TERVIEW WH THE BRISH NEWS OUTLET {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

And he has been one of the most fluential gay pop sgers ever sce. 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.

The Grammy-award-wng sger Frank Ocean has also opened up about his homosexualy.

MICHAEL BOLTON GAY: SGER ANNOUNC NEW ROMANCE AMID SEXUALY ASSUMPTNS!

And she belongs on this list of the bt gay sgers of all time bee of her bisexualy.

But bis openly supportg gay muny, Lady Gaga has also spoken openly about her bisexualy. But she will also always be remembered as one of the bt gay micians of all time.

GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME

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. He has been open about beg gay sce 2013, when he nfirmed his sexualy a YouTube vio.

A Canadian sger and songwrer Ruf Wawright has been open about his homosexualy sce he was a teenager. All all, he is a famo gay mician wh a rich, versatile reer.

Tennant publicly me out as gay 1994, when he nfirmed the terview for the Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu. Billy Porter is one of the famo gay black sgers who achieved fame performg on Broadway. Billy Porter me out as gay when he was 16, and he is an outspoken advote for LGBT and racial rights.