2/10/2024 0 Comments Famous gay musicians in historyAway from the blues, there was the first gay pride anthem in 1920, Das Lila Lied (aka The Lavender Song), written by Berlin-based duo Spoliansky and Schwabach, through to the stars of the so-called Pansy Craze, popular in New York from 1930. Even gay men, less documented than the women, took advantage of a brief new social permissiveness following the first world war – George Hannah wrote and sang Freakish Man Blues in 1930. They were doing the dirty in song almost 100 years ago, in 1920s Harlem, when blues singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith sang about same-sex affairs. In any case, talking about sex is hardly new for gay artists. Why not go for the bigger triumph, over a whole album? Would his fanbase be only one in 10 – the traditionally quoted ratio of queer to straight – if he did? But that “little bit” amounted to male pronouns in just two songs, something that Alexander called “a small triumph”. “That’s something I’ve sort of tried to do a little bit on this album, but to be able to talk about sex is possibly new for gay artists, so I’d like to see that in the mainstream.” If anyone has the chance, it’s Alexander. “I’d like to hear a gay artist express their sexuality in a really open way,” he said. Last summer, Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander pondered the same subject when promoting the trio’s album Communion.
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