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The 20 Greatest LGBTQ+ Artists in Music History
We expect you're having a excellent Pride Month! Last week, we introduced you to 10 rising LGBTQ+ artists we believe will get the world by storm. This week, we're reflecting upon LGBTQ+ artists already in the public eye. Legendary musicians who hold inspired, advocated, and conquered.
Whether they've been open about their sexuality and gender expression for years or kept their label disguised throughout history, we trust the 20 artists below have created impenetrable sonic works while also altering the world's view of the LGBTQ+ community for the better.
We've had to limit this list to only 20 people (we know there are so many other great Gay musicians out there!) but we have chosen the artists we've chosen because we believe their legacies have stood – or will stand – the test of time. We not only salute these musicians during Pride Month, but every day. Without further ado, here are our honorees.
1. Lady Gaga
Gaga came out publicly as bisexual back in 2010 after a 20/20 interview with Barbara Walters. Even if she had decided to keep her sexuality a secret, we grasp she would still possess the humongous LGBTQ+ obeying she has
Art has always been a powerful form of advocacy. Today we’re celebrating 7 artists who have stood up and spoken out for LGBTQ+ rights.
Zanele Muholi, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Catherine Opie, Gilbert & George, Annie Leibovitz, and Robert Mapplethorpe have each used their medium of choice to speak out against social injustice, fracture down barriers, subvert gender norms, or draw attention to, normalize and honor queer identities and relationships. To celebrate Pride month, here we take a look at some of their most iconic works of art.
Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and co-founder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW)–a black lesbian organization based in Gauteng–and Inkanyisa–a platform for queer and visual activism.
A self-described ‘visual activist,’ Muholi uses her camera to fight against inequality and make post-Apartheid South Africa’s LGBTQ+ population visible. Living in a country where honor killings and “corrective rapes” are a real threat to lesbian women, Muholi documents the lives of those who are in steady danger. “We live in fear,” Muholi has said. “And what are we doing about it? You have to document. You are
Featuring works from 1539–1992 relating to Lesbian identities and Homoerotic appearances within art. Under the umbrella term of 'art and identity', sexuality resides within its own category. Gay Art explores how artists expressed themselves in a second when established assumptions about gender and sexuality were existence questioned and transformed. Taking a roughly chronological view of the most significant shifts and themes when it comes to the plodding incline of acceptance of homosexuality. It is important to understand historical context when viewing these works, and the changing laws and views on homosexuality around the world
Artists featured in this Curation:Derek Jarman (1942–1994), John David Yeadon (b.1948), Colin Hall (b.1952), David Hockney (b.1937), Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929), Ethel Walker (1861–1951), William Strang (1859–1921), Duncan Grant (1885–1978), Simeon Solomon (1840–1905),
Art and Pride: LGBTQ+ Artists Who Have Made an Impact
Feature
28 Jun 2019
by Sandy Di Yu
In celebration of the enormous strides that LGBTQ+ civil movements own made, and to recognise the challenges that the community have been historically faced with and still face today, we’ve gathered a few of our favourite artists who hold furthered these important movements and conversations.
June and July see the celebrations of Pride around the globe, and in London, this culminates in the iconic Pride Parade on the 7th of July. Amidst the rainbow paraphernalia, exuberant performances, and unabashedly targeted merchandise appropriated by marketing departments across the nation, there lies a prosperous history of the struggles and triumphs that painted the lives of the LGBTQ+ community.
While we at ArtRabbit are hopping with pride for the victories that these movements possess garnered, we know that it hasn’t always been rainbow confetti and positivity. In celebration of the long way that civil rights have come for members of the Queer community, and in commemoration of the hardships that they have faced (and many still face today), we’ve gathered our favourite art
10 LGBTQ+ Artists Who Redefined Contemporary Art
The art market has changed substantially over the past years. From competing with digital art and NFTs to the belated race to build stronger online presences, art market players were forced to reckon with their lack of participation in the progress of the 21st century, especially with the onset of the pandemic. But the changes that artists, collectors, and institutions are faced with took root way before this decade and concern not only art that is being currently created, but also individuals and works that came into being over the past 100 years. The undervaluation of minority groups is one of the strongest factors that has been driving prices – and LGBTQ+ artists certainly belong to that segment. Here are some of the most important figures who have shaped the LGBTQ+ art space over the past decades and today.
We took a look at 10 major LGBTQ+ artists who have helped specify the landscape of contemporary art, whose serve engages with themes of identity politics, sexuality, gender and race.
David Hockney
David Hockney is one of the most famous and established Queer artists still functional today. A m