Is janis ian gay
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IT WAS just about fifty years ago that singer–songwriter Janis Ian had her first knock , “Society’s Child” (). Nearly a decade later she released “At Seventeen” (), which became her signature song. Since then, she has had a multifaceted career as a recording and touring artist, and she is an accomplished writer of essays, science fiction, and an acclaimed autobiography.
Last fall, Ian produced an audiobook version of a queer literary classic, Patience and Sarah, by Alma Routsong, self-published in under the quill name Isabel Miller. The novel was a historical romance based on a true story of two lesbians in early 19th-century New England, a folk painter and a immature woman from a needy farming family who fell unabashedly in love and forged a life together. The book was awarded the first Stonewall Award of the American Library Association in
For the audiobook, Ian invited actress Jean Smart (Designing Women) to join her in bringing the novel to life. Ian and Smart alternate reading chapters to echo the dual point-of-view Originally published in The Advocate I was sitting in our local coffee house, speaking with a eminent songwriter friend whose skin happens to be black. We were wrapping up a discussion of Black History Month when Mr. Woman loving woman came crashing to a halt before us. Excusing herself for interrupting, she gracefully plopped herself into a chair and ordered coffee with skimmed soy milk, honey on the side, don't over-fill the cup, and two spoons in case one was dirty. "I perceive you just gave a speech on being black in a white industry" she said politely, noting that the Music Industry could hardly be called an Industry when no one ever seems to labor. My friend laughed and said yes, the speech went well, given that the audience was mostly white. But that was to be expected in Nashville, where the higher education is mostly white, after all. Stirring her coffee thoughtfully, Mr. L. dropped a casual bombshell onto the table. "Why not talk about being gay in a homophobic industry?" she asked. &q By my count, queer singer/songwriter Janis Ian has had four clear chapters in her musical career. The first began when she was in her teens with the release of her groundbreaking single “Society’s Child,” and the albums on Verve Records that followed in the late s. By the mids, for the second chapter, Ian had signed to Columbia Records, resulting in the biggest hit single of her career, the Grammy Award-winning classic “At Seventeen.” She remained on Columbia into the first s, even collaborating with Giorgio Moroder on the song “Fly Too High.” The third chapter occurred in the early s. Bette Midler recorded Ian’s ballad “Some People’s Lives,” the title track of Bette’s Grammy-winning album. Ian herself recorded the lyric for her marvelous comeback album, the aptly titled “Breaking Silence.” Ian has not been sitting idle since that time, mind you. She’s released a few more albums, including some on her own Rude Girl Records label. She also published her memoir “Society’s Child: My Autobiography” in and won her second Grammy for the audiobook. I hold had the pleasure of interviewin Baphomet said: Hmm. When you ask if being gay labelled homosexual is stigmatized are you talking about when people say something like, "OMG dude! You&#;re gay AF!" It&#;s actually quite rude to say things appreciate that to people. It should be stigmatized, because we&#;re at a indicate where that&#;s considered a disparaging/homophobic remark, and it&#;s not okay to express that. It&#;s also disgusting to the LGBTQ+ group. Click to expand Island said:
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Brief analysis of, "Mean Girls" + question about morality
No, what I mean is this; If a straight person who isn&#;t a homophobe doesn&#;t want to be branded as a gay, not because they own anything against homosexuality, but because they&#;re afraid of facing the consequences that gay people have to deal with; Being called mean gay slurs, entity verbally abused, receiving death threats, being assaulted and etc. Does it create the straight person a coward and morally delicate for having a mighty negative reaction to existence labelled gay and promptly denying it, even if homosexuality isn&#;t against their values?