The Scissor Sisters are an NYC-based electroclash band who are known for their outrageous fashion and spectacle meets party live shows. They’ve been on hiatus since 2017 while the members pursue other artistic activities.
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Boy George is the androgynous gay icon who mostly known as being the lead singer of Culture Club but he also acts, produces and is a writer. He’s currently in the Broadway production of “Moulin Rouge”
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Ariana DeBose is a queer Puerto Rican musician, dancer and Emmy, BAFTA, SAG and Oscar award winner. You can see her in the film “Argyle” which this song (“Electric Energy”) is from
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Sylvester (September 6, 1947 - December 16, 1988) AKA “The Queen of Disco” was primarily known as a popular and openly Gay and gender- fluid Disco artist in the late 1970s and 1980s. “Rock the Box” was on one of his final albums. Like far too many, He passed away to complication due to AIDS in 1988. Their estate dictates that all royalties from their work be donated to AIDS/HIV charities. He was posthumously inducted into he Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Brittany Howard is the lesbian lead singer-songwriter for Alabama Shakes. They’re on hiatus so she’s set out on a solo career. She’s married to her Bermuda Triangle Band band mate Jesse Lafser. Her second solo album “What Now” is one of my favorite albums of 2024 so far (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIgMB81O7tfNkwrMKTErtni5brcOQ_eNI&si=o5LoPXgO03SM7diX)
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Janelle Monáe is a non-binary pansexual musician, actress (“Hidden Figures”, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, etc.) and fashion icon. Her first new album in over 5 years, “The Age of Pleasure” was one my favorite albums of 2023 (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd6pWDl8nMg_YoVljX4pWm_22Oo8AeWXF&si=7WtzJ6rMLfoCg89U)
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Billie Eilish is a multi-Grammy and Oscar award winning singer-songwriter who recently came out as bisexual. Her album “Hit Me Hard and Soft” was released last month (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m1WZWUtrntyrrtCUSATYfs84K3ZnZl9P0&si=dPU2qWDLcvGZrmjY)
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Every 90s mom’s favorite lesbian singer-songwriter: K.D. Lang with her massive hit “Constant Craving” (https://youtu.be/9s1VUkWGL3Q?si=_vHW2RTgoDQAsCQv)
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Pet Shop Boys are an extremely popular and influential English electronic duo that have been making music together since the 1980s. According to the the 1999 Guinness Book of World Records they are the most successful duo in UK music history. “Dancing Star” is from their recent album “Nonetheless” which is also one of my 2024 favorites (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kD04YQr3mLVKWKGhQ35DV4S7CTD8bzoSI&si=VHXxd0LohOZAbdRI)
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