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Queers and Allies for April 8


1967

Lesley Gore performed “California Nights” on “American Bandstand.”


1995

Madonna had the #1 song for a seventh and final week with “Take A Bow”.

2003
The concert special “Cher: The Farewell Tour” aired on NBC-TV.


Lisa Marie Presley’s debut album “To Whom It May Concern” was released.

2015

People magazine reported that Barry Manilow secretly married his manager, Garry Kief, sometime during 2014. The publication’s sources said that Barry and Garry invited “20 to 30 guests” to Manilow’s Palm Springs house under the guise of a luncheon, which turned out to be a wedding ceremony.


2016

Bruce Springsteen canceled a concert in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest the state’s passing of the controversial Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act. Also known as the “bathroom bill”, the Act said that transgender people must use rest rooms associated with the sex noted on their birth certificate.

queer (and allies) for april 7

1967
Sonny & Cher‘s movie “Good Times” debuted in Chicago, IL.

1979
#1 “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor,

1984
#2 “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell

#4 “Here Comes The Rain Again” by the Eurythmics

1985

Wham! became the first western pop group to perform live in China, when they played at the workers gymnasium in Beijing. Several solo performers had played China before.

Prince ended his 32-city tour in Miami, FL, and said that he was withdrawing from live performances for “an indeterminate number of years.” He later returned to live performing.

1990
Elton John sang “Candle in the Wind” for Ryan White, a boy with AIDS who died a day later.

1998

George Michael was arrested at The Will Rogers Memorial Park for committing a sex act in a public toilet. He was arrested by undercover Beverly Hills police officer Marcelo Rodriguez. Michael later said; “I was followed into the restroom and this cop – well, I didn’t know he was a cop at the time obviously started playing this game. I think it’s called – I’ll show you mine, you show me yours, and then when you show me yours, I’m gonna nick you!” The singer was later fined $810 (£500) after being convicted of a “lewd act.”

1999

Shania Twain became the first female to sell 10 million copies of back-to-back albums (The Woman in Me and Come On Over). (Note: some websites state that this occurred on April 11. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) certified Come On Over at 10 million on April 7.)

2002
Celine Dion had a huge #1 album with A New Day Has Come .

2008

Olivia Newton-John began a 21-day, 141-mile walk along the entire length of the Great Wall of China to raise funds for breast cancer research.

2010

Singer Whitney Houston was released from a Paris hospital after suffering a respiratory infection. She called media reports that she was using drugs again “ridiculous.”

2016
The final episode of the final season of “American Idol” was aired. the show would have had many lgbtq2 contestants with Adam Lampert being the most famous.

Queer for April 5

1961

Barbra Streisand made her network television debut when she appeared on NBC’s “Tonight with Jack Paar,” with guest host Orson Bean. Bean had recently performed with her in a nightclub and invited her to be on the late-night program for some national exposure when he filled in for Paar. She sang “A Sleeping Bee” and “When The Sun Comes Out.” Phyllis Diller andGore Vidal were also on the show.

1975
Olivia Newton-John’s “Have You Never Been Mellow, a number one hit had dropped to number 9

1977
David Bowie was one of the guests on The Dinah Shore Show.

1984
Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” was named Top Female Video and was nominated for Video of the Year at the 2nd annual MTV Music Awards.

1985
UB40, the Style Council, Spandau Ballet, Alison Moyet, Bronski Beat, the Pogues and Frankie Goes to Hollywood were featured on the U.K. music show The Tube.

1988
Tracy Chapman released her great self-titled debut album on Elektra Records.

2001

David Bowie started his BowieRadio on-line radio station.

2005

Lisa Marie Presley’s album “Now What” was released.

2008
Lady GaGa had the #1 U.K. album with her debut The Fame.

2017
Barry Manilow comes out as gay.

queer for april 2


1970

Janis Joplin was at No.1 on the US album charts with the posthumously released Pearl. The album features the No.1 hit ‘Me and Bobby McGee’, written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster on which she played acoustic guitar.
1987

k.d. lang made her Los Angeles debut at the Roxy nightclub.


1988

Whitney Houston reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”.


1992
Country music singer Wynonna Judd began her first solo tour in Midland, Texas. Her mother Naomi left their Grammy-winning duo several months earlier when she was forced into retirement because of liver disease. She recovered after treatment.


2002
Lee Anderson Minnelli sued her stepdaughter Liza Minnelli for elder abuse and breach of contract. The claim was filed based on the will of Vincente Minnelli.


2011
Elton John appeared on TV’s Saturday Night Live where he and Leon Russell performed a couple of songs together. He also joked about being gay, performing at the royal wedding and being a new father.

2021

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/04/lil-nas-x-calls-crying-nerds-internet-got-satan-shoes-canceled/Lil Nas X calls out the “crying nerds on the internet” who got his Satan shoes canceled / LGBTQ Nation“They have so much power they can get shoes cancelled. Freedom of expression gone out the window…www.lgbtqnation.com

queer for march 27

1973
Liza Minnelli wins an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Cabaret, beating out Diana Ross, who starred in Lady Sings The Blues.

March 27, 1990

k.d. lang’s “Absolute Torch And Twang” album was certified Gold.

1995

Elton John and Tim Rice win the Oscar for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture for “Can You Feel The Love” from The Lion King.
March 27, 2006

Former Village People policeman Victor Willis was arrested in San Francisco, California, after he disappeared from an ongoing drug and gun trial. Police had charged Willis with being in possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia in July 2005. He would later be sentenced to three years’ probation after he agreed to enter a treatment program.

2012

David Bowie’s landmark album Ziggy Stardust was celebrated with a blue plaque in central London. Former Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp, unveiled a plaque at the spot where the cover of the 1972 release was shot. The location in Heddon Street, just off Regent Street, is now a pedestrianised area brimming with bars and restaurants.

Queer culture march 25

March 25, 1918

Composer Claude Debussy died of rectal cancer at age 55. (Clair de Lune, La Mer, Iberia, Jeux, Children’s Corner Suite)

https://www.wfmt.com/2015/06/25/15-queer-composers-know/15 Queer Composers You Should Know | WFMTCan you imagine a world without the music of Handel, Tchaikovsky, or Britten? These great composers of the past are just a few of many important musical figures who did not identify as heterosexual. Check out this list of 15 composers, some of whom are still living, and let us know who your favorite queer composers are in the comments …www.wfmt.com

queer culture march 21

March 21, 1925

After easily passing through the Tennessee House and Senate, the Butler Act was signed into law by Governor Austin Peay, making it a crime for a teacher in a state-supported public school to teach any theory that contradicts the Bible’s account of man’s creation. Six weeks later in Dayton, Tennessee, John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution at Rhea County High School.

March 21, 1965

In Alabama, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began a successful march from Selma to Montgomery, the third of three such attempts that month.

March 21, 1976
After a David Bowie concert at the Community War Memorial arena in Rochester, New York, Iggy Pop and David Bowie were involved in a drug bust at their hotel room where the police found 182 grams (a little over 6.4 ounces) of marijuana. The pair spent the rest of the night in the Monroe County Jail and were released at about 7 a.m. on $2,000 bond each; charges later were dropped.

1981
Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb combined for the week’s #10 song–“What Kind Of Fool”.

1985

Boy George said in “Women’s World” magazine that he would never marry, settle down, or become a father.

1989

Madonna released her fourth studio album, “Like A Prayer.”

1993

Anne Murray was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

2004

George Michael scored his fifth UK #1 album with “Patience”. After a slow start in the US, the LP would eventually climb to #12.

2011

A lost David Bowie album called “Toy”, which went unreleased since 2001, mysteriously appeared on several file-sharing websites. The collection of mostly re-recorded tracks from Bowie’s early years had been locked in a dispute with Virgin Records.

queer culture for march 18

1979

Sister Sledge released the single “We Are Family”.

1986

Whitney Houston released the single “Greatest Love Of All”.

1995

Madonna ruled for a fourth week with “Take A Bow”. Soul for Real held down #2 with “Candy Rain” with the former #1 smash “Creep” by TLC third. “Baby” from Brandy followed that trio with another TLC smash–“Red Light Special” leaping from 18 to 5.

In New York, Madonna celebrated the premiere of her “Bedtime Story” video with a pajama party. The gathering was for 1,500 guests that were in pajamas and had teddy bears.

1998
Elton John told a British TV interviewer that tributes to Princess Diana, killed in a car crash the previous August, should stop. He said it was “time to give it a rest.” John’s recording of “Candle in the Wind ’97,” which he performed at the princess’s funeral, became the best-selling single in history and raised millions for the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

2002
George Michael‘s single “Freeek!” was released in Britain.

2013
David Bowie’s first album in a decade become the fastest-selling of the year, hitting the No.1 spot in the UK in its first week of release. The Next Day was the 66-year-old’s first No.1 since 1993’s ‘Black Tie White Noise’ and sold 94,000 copies in the first week.

Queer Culture March 12

March 12, 1958
Jazz singer Billie Holiday, who had pled guilty to a narcotics-possession charge in 1956, is given a year’s probation by a Philadelphia court.

Openly bisexual, Holiday had several affairs with men and women

1985

first memorial to the Nazi’s gay victims unveiled: a pink granite stone monument at the former Neuengamme concentration camp, inscribed “Dedicated to the Homosexual Victims of National Socialism.”

1986, (in response to the above, not occurring on this day:)

I was the only student in my Canadian history class at Princess Margaret Secondary School, Surrey BC, who was allowed to know about gays and lesbians in the camps. I was not allowed to tell the others because we were not supposed to know that LGBTQ2 existed in 1986.

History students from many lower mainland of BC high schools were bussed to the University of BC for a holocaust conference.

1988

Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna’ Give You Up” unseated “Father Figure” by George Michael for #1

from wikipedia

Released in the United Kingdom in December 1987, “Father Figure” reached number eleven on the UK Singles Chart – the first time Michael had failed to reach the top ten in his home country. The song remained a live favourite at Michael’s concerts for many years and is also one of his most frequently aired songs on the radio in the United Kingdom.

In the United States, “Father Figure” became George Michael‘s sixth number one single (including three number one singles garnered as half of Wham!). “Father Figure” debuted at number 49 on 16 January 1988, while “Faith” was still prominent (at number nine) in the top ten of the chart. In the subsequent weeks, “Father Figure” was a surefire hit, reaching number one by its seventh week, 27 February 1988, staying at the top for two weeks. Altogether, the single spent six

Chart (1988–2016)Peak
position

weeks in the top ten, nine weeks in the top twenty, and 14 weeks in the top forty.

queer culture march 7

March 7, 1927

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law banning negroes from voting was unconstitutional.

March 7, 1965

In Selma, Alabama, about 600 non-violent civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state and local police using billy clubs, cattle prods and tear gas. The day came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

March 7, 1975

David Bowie’s ninth studio album,Young Americans, saw it’s UK release. The album featured the hit song “Fame,” that would become Bowie’s first number one single in America.

March 7, 1976

In London, Elton John became the first rock star since the Beatles to be immortalized with a lookalike figure at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.

Super pop star Elton John (right) with his wax portrait in Madame Tussaud’s studio. The figure joined a new version of Heroes – a space where figures appear out of the dark in a sequence of light, sound and projection.

1987

The Beastie Boys became the first rap act to have a number one album when their debut effort, Licensed to Ill, topped the charts.

1998

Madonna had her eighth #1 song in the U.K. with “Frozen”.

2003

Broadway musicians went on strike during a contract dispute, closing all but one musical, “Cabaret.” Four days later, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg facilitated a settlement.

2021

https://americansongwriter.com/aaron-lee-tasjan-and-fancy-hagood-discuss-queer-representation-in-music/Aaron Lee Tasjan and Fancy Hagood Discuss Queer Representation in Music « American Songwriter“Queer existence is here,” says Fancy Hagood (a.k.a. Who is Fancy) of Brothers Osborne’s T.J. Osborne’s recent coming out and the boundaries that areamericansongwriter.com

https://www.wpr.org/how-pop-musicians-transcend-strict-gender-rolesHow Pop Musicians Transcend Strict Gender Roles | Wisconsin Public RadioSasha Geffen talks about their book, “Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary,” in which they explore how popular music’s quality of subliminal expression allows rigid gender constructs to disappear.www.wpr.org

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