Lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender LGBT music is grouping of musical genres that focus on the experiences of gender and sexual minorities [1] [2] as a product of the broad gay liberation movement. LGBT music spans the entire spectrum of popular music. The origin of the genre arose during the s when post-disco dance and house music , Hi-NRG , and freestyle music became more prevalent in the United States and LGBT artists gained prominence for exploring popular music trends. In the s, New Orleans began testing different prostitution policies which led to brothels and gay musicians like Tony Jackson or Bessie Smith. As it flourished, blues performers like Lucille Bogan and Ma Rainey began singing about their sexual adventures with other women.
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Carys Moseley comments on the wider implications this could have on society. What happened next is very revealing. According to English-language news site Lovin Malta , in an X Factor pre-audition interview, Matthew Grech said that he used to live as a gay man until he became a Christian and followed Jesus Christ. This made some LGBT activists and allies who were viewing the show very angry. According to the Maltese press, LGBT activists and their allies managed to get the video clip of the interview taken off Facebook and YouTube within minutes. It appears that they expected music judges to judge the beliefs and attitudes of contestants as well.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's famous no-nonsense words published by Daily Beast reporter Andrew Sullivan in July have been widely interpreted as the signpost of a new era of mainstream media acceptance. A few days later, in a similar non-event, singer and songwriter Frank Ocean revealed his first love was a man through a post on his Tumblr blog. Many religious communities, however, are still far from extending anything like this sort of tolerance. If they were, Jennifer Knapp's life would be very different today. Knapp was a star Christian pop singer from to , selling a million records between and and performing in churches across the country.
One in which renowned Christian authors and musicians are moving beyond public support of revisionist sexual ethics and themselves professing an openly gay lifestyle. Something novel to mainstream contemporary Christian culture. Several Christian celebrities and their recent declarations as members of the LGBTQ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community sent shockwaves adding to the theological dissentions surrounding traditional Christian teaching. Below are brief biographies of five Christian celebrities who have come out as practicing gay lifestyles. Sadly, her marriage was not redeemed.