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Originally Posted by Vanilla
Def Leppard and Duran Duran are the first bands that came to mind when I think of 'gay bands'
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no gay members of those
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Surely it makes no difference what sexual orientation a musician is? I know that was not the intent of the OP, to pigeonhole and single out LBGT people in the music world, but I feel this is what has inadvertently happened. Everyone is now posting videos of gay/lesbian musicians and the underlying, if not intentional, sentiment is: they're not so bad. Even though they're gay they can make decent music?
I just think segregating people into these sort of groups is intrinsically bad. Why not just ignore a person's sexual orientation/preference and concentrate on the music they make? Who cares if musician X is gay, lesbian, trans or alien, as long as they make decent music?
Is what I think...
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I think you're wrong. I read the whole thing and didn't notice one instance of what you mentioned in the part I bolded. Pretty much the only poster who made fun of/belittled homosexuality is Vanilla
gay vocalist
gay vocalist
formerly gay/currently asexual vocalist