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"Really, the issue was that I didn’t really love myself. I actually hated myself up until recently, and I still have days where I feel weird. I spent 30 years pleasing people around me while I laid there staring at the ceiling. It’s not about saying ‘*** you’ to everyone, but it’s about respecting myself, which ultimately is better for everyone."

Through Divorce & Depression, The Drums' Jonny Pierce Found Peace This is me stepping out and dropping the stilts and saying wherever I land, I land.

“‘Edge of Glory’ is gay music? But plenty of straight people love that song.’ When a bewildered straight friend said that to musicologist Chris White about the Lady Gaga hit, he was struck. “The musical gayness that is so obvious to me is invisible to him. I wonder whether there are reliable characteristics of music that can make a song obviously appeal to my particular sexual expression, while still ‘passing’ for mainstream music. What makes music sound gay to me? So, I took an audio recorder to Provincetown to record how places would signal this particular kind of gayness through particular kinds of music.”

Can Music Be “Gay”? A Musicologist Listens for Identity in Provincetown. It’s a Thursday afternoon in late summer, and I’m sitting at a bar with a straight friend of mine. Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory” fades in on the loudspea ...

Are Le****ns The Black Sheep Of Broadway? With shows like "Fun Home" and "Indecent" breaking through, it would seem le***an audiences might finally be seeing themselves on the main stage.

Seph Rodney sees a music-and-video project about the late Julius Eastman at the Sharjah Biennial.

Channeling Julius Eastman, a Gay, African American Composer Composer Julius Eastman is the focus of a project by the Otolith Group and it was included in this year's Sharjah Biennial.

Alex Ross: The culture indicated by the phrase “opera queen” became visible in pioneering openly gay communities of the late nineteenth century, and undoubtedly existed long before that. Even so, operas on gay themes have proliferated in recent years.

The Decline of Opera Queens and the Rise of Gay Opera By the seventies and eighties, the venerable opera-queen stereotype—a pre-Stonewall signifier—had receded. But in recent years operas on gay themes have proliferated.

Through stories and song, members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles on Saturday shared struggles to reconcile faith with identity in a program titled “I Rise,” an emotional meditation on the nuanced and often-tense relationship between religion and the LGBTQ community.

Gay Men's Chorus reaches out to religious groups in song and story Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles invites more than 200 singers from a variety of faiths to join in "I Rise," a concert centered on the relationship between churches and the LGBTQ community.

Marianne Breslauer’s gorgeous photos of q***r, androgynous and butch women of the 1930s   The photography of Marianne Breslauer is striking for both its intimacy and its subjects—women, usually of the sleek, chic and gender-bending variety, posed to optimum androgynous elegance. A bohemian Berliner by birth, Breslauer studied under Man Ray for a time in Paris and achieved some commerci...

The small coastal city of Mersin … is one of the last places you would expect to find Turkey’s first and only LGBTQ choir, but that choir is on the front lines of the fight for LGBTQ and other minority rights in the country of 80 million.

Meet Turkey’s First—and Only—Q***r Choir - Roads & Kingdoms Turkey's LGBT choir is banding together against an increasingly authoritarian government.