I came accross something curious procrastinating on itunes last night, 3 of the singers in the itunes top 5 albums are bisexual women. Currently the top 5 are as follows:
1. Soldier of Love- Sade
2. The E.N.D.- Black Eyed Peas (Fergie is bisexual)
3. Need You Now- Lady Antebellum
4. Animal- Ke$sha (bisexual)
5. The Fame Monster- Lady GaGa (bisexual)
Since when are so many of the nation's top pop stars women, and since when are so many gay? And how is it that gay rights are still an issue when so much of the popular media is coming from what many call the 'last oppressed minority?' Is this a gay renaissance in media? I'd like to think so. Just look at Katy Perry's 'I kissed a Girl' hitting number (she's straight) 1, or Adam Lambert (he's gay) getting close to as many votes on American Idol as Barack Obama in the national elections. For much of my life, and most importantly to me in the last few years since I've come out of the closet as an out and proud bisexual, there haven't been many popular out role models. I guess David Bowie is still alive out there somewhere, and Neil Patrick Harris is cool, I guess. But never before have I seen so many gay artists being so commercially successful at one time. Recent years have seen the meteoric rise of Lady Gaga, Milk and Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars, Ellen Degeneres as a judge on American Idol and a new resurgence of gay media domination. Not since the 80s with Bowie and Madonna has bi been so big in the music scene, and LGBT cinema has never been so critically or commercially successful, ever. In the midsts of the gay civil rights movement, the little brother of its 60s counterpart, the media is starting to display LGBT artists openly and doing what they want to do. And while I hate most of their music, I look forward to the future careers of Gaga, Fergie, Ke$ha and yes, maybe even Glambert.
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