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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
9. Oh, no problem at all. Perfect answer, no mistake,
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 01:41 PM
Dec 2013

Beautiful song, beautiful video, I love it, thanks for sharing them here.

Because we are a historically and presently stigmatized minority who are seeking the greatest degree of recognition possible as equal human beings, we have a tendency to celebrate and note our openly LGBT artists. It is a relatively new phenomenon that LGBT artists are widely accepted, so we might make a distinction and note it when artists are LGBT.

In the past, an LGBT artist coming out could be the kiss of death for their career, and this is changing, but is still an issue. It's actually a very personal issue for me.

It's why we may sometimes make an effort to note that an artist is LGBT.

Even though it should not make any difference if the artist is LGBT, str8, green, maroon, male, female, or unspecified.

And you get that.

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