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Diana Ross: I’ m Coming Out
1988
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Roberta Flack: Ballad of the Sad Young Men
1969
During the 1960’ s many Social Activist Movements were occurring( civil rights, Chicano Movement, etc) This is what gave stone wall it’ s momentum. This soft melody beat, I included not only because it’ s a lyrical masterpiece that came out around the same time. But because this song, reflects the attitude and bitter feelings that queer folk could’ ve experienced prestonewall riot. Getting drunk to numb the pain. Also included NWA’ s Fuck the police, because of the attitudes of many queers towards the police during the time
Queen: Break Free
1973
In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders And in 1977 the first actively gay man Harvey Milk was put in a political office in san fran
Diana Ross: I’ m Coming Out
National Coming out Day: National coming out day was was founded on October 11 th 1988, by Queer Activist Robert Eichberg and Jean O ' Leary.
1988
TLC: Waterfalls
1995
1995 is when death from aids hit an all time high. The number of deaths hit 41,699 people had died before it had a massive decrease, probably with the efforts of safer sex and drug practices and uses
Ricky Martin came out, to the surprise of much of his latin America fan basis. Born this way, is a sum up of what many used as the reasoning for being queer was that they were born this way
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Lady Gaga: Born this Way
Frank Ocean Came out as Bi to the world when, the field of hip hop was extremely rooted in homophobia
Frank Ocean: Thinking About You
Gay Marriage was legalized within the U. S. In Utah discrimination laws were passed to prevent discrimination based on queer identities
Utah passed laws to criminalize hate crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity
Mackle Moore: Same Love