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Not to mention the fact that their original guitarist, the late Ricky Wilson, might be one of the most influential gay guitar players in all of post punk. Rapper Queen Latifah officially came out as a lesbian at the BET awards, but she has been lauded as a queer icon for decades.

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From George Michael to Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield, travel back to the '80s with this list of iconic hits from queer artists. Style Expand. Search Search. But it was the androgynous Boy George and his band Culture Club that truly took those sounds to the pop mainstream.

The LGBTQ+ community has long been celebrated within the music industry, as some of the biggest stars of the late 20th century and beyond have identified themselves as such. To honor that history, we here at Them assembled a massive Queer s Playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music encompassing everyone from top 40 pop legends to college radio darlings of the era.

Their entry on our playlist — the dance/ reggae-pop hit “Miss Me Blind.

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The soundtrack of the s reflects the glamorous excess of the decade. Culture Expand. Community Expand. Artists took bold sonic swings, inventing genres like New Wave with its fusion of punk, rock, pop, and reggae, along with a metric ton of synth.

Thanks to the birth of MTV inthe fashion, style, and larger-than-life personas of the people who made music were more visible than ever. British groups like Pet Shop Boys, Visage, Bronski Beat, and Soft Cell were all part of the backbone of the hedonistic ’80s, pioneering the dramatic pairing of synthesizers with dance floor rhythms.

Art Read Me All Culture. But it was the androgynous Boy George and his band Culture Club that truly took those sounds to the pop mainstream. These cultural shifts made space for queer musicians to take up more space in the mainstream.

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