{"id":67890,"date":"2021-02-22T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=67890"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:43:20","slug":"lgbt-history-month-loud-and-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/02\/lgbt-history-month-loud-and-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT History Month: Loud And Proud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It\u2019s February, which means it\u2019s LGBTQ+ history month. But, as well as looking backwards at the musicians and artists who have shaped history as openly gay, lesbian and queer spokespeople, it\u2019s important to shine a light on those who are around today, standing loud and proud and making music as part of an underrepresented and marginalised group of people.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With TJ. Osbourne coming out making him the first openly gay country music performer signed to a major label, music history has been made. In a statement made to TIME magazine, he<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said country music is about storytelling, and his identity is inextricable from his music.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it\u2019s not just Osbourne calling it for the guys, the gays and the theys &#8211; pop and country have seen a whole host of queer artists take to the microphone in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newcomer to the alt-pop scene, VISSIA, is a Canadian songstress who combines pop, soul, jazz and more. Her singles from her upcoming full-length album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Pleasure<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> show her to be a shrewd and wise-beyond-her-years songwriter who doesn\u2019t shy from honest confessions of emotions and outpourings of love in all its many forms.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5mWXzn82OiI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Known primarily for winning the X Factor, Joe McElderry has recently returned to the world of mainstream music after years of releasing ballads and cover versions. This was with a bang, and with \u2018Baby Had Your Fun\u2019 McElderry captured the spirit of the dancefloors we all miss so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8KrRu25R44g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/frenchfriesandmargarita\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Fries and Margarita<\/a> is the non-binary performer whose pop act is about to drop its debut track, \u2018CRIME AGAINST NATURE\u2019, an indictment of those who make it hard for people to be themselves. It\u2019s a slick track which maintains a DIY sensibility and fuses French culture and haute couture fashion in their one-of-a-kind take on pop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"67897\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/02\/lgbt-history-month-loud-and-proud\/french-fries-and-margherita\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/french-fries-and-margherita.jpg?fit=622%2C932&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"622,932\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;lisa&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1613994013&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"french fries and margherita\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/french-fries-and-margherita.jpg?fit=622%2C932&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67897\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/french-fries-and-margherita.jpg?resize=622%2C932&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/french-fries-and-margherita.jpg?w=622&amp;ssl=1 622w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/french-fries-and-margherita.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/french-fries-and-margherita.jpg?resize=400%2C600&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s February, which means it\u2019s LGBTQ+ history month. But, as well as looking backwards at the musicians and artists who have shaped history as openly gay, lesbian and queer spokespeople, it\u2019s important to shine a light on those who are around today, standing loud and proud and making music as part of an underrepresented and marginalised group of people.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":67897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,57,9,12133],"tags":[26986,964,375,6020,26985,26987,26286],"class_list":["post-67890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","category-news","tag-french-fries-and-margarita","tag-joe-mcelderry","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbt-community","tag-lgbt-history-month","tag-tj-osbourne","tag-vissia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-hF0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49182,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/04\/ozzy-osbourne-follows-long-line-of-musicians-in-lending-image-and-music-to-slot-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":67890,"position":0},"title":"Ozzy Osbourne Follows Long Line of Musicians In Lending Image And Music To Slot Game","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"17\/04\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Rock stars don't come much bigger, better known, or charismatic than Ozzy Osbourne,\" explains NetEnt director of game products Bryan Upton. 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