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The month of June is dedicated to LGBTQ pride...
We have a lot to be proud of... Take a look at this list of artists, musicians, authors who stand in that number.
This is a fraction of all of the names that could be added,
but you catch my drift.
Artists: Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romaine Brooks, Paul Cadmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonor Fini, Sunil Gupta, Keith Haring, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, Tamara de Lempicka, Michelangelo, Robert Rauschenberg, John Singer Sargent, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol...
Composers and musicians: Leonard Bernstein, David Bowie, John Cage, Brandi Carlile, Chopin, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Elton John, Janis Joplin, K.D.Lang, Liberace, Ricky Martin, Shane McNally, Freddie Mercury, Janelle Monae, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Frank Ocean, Sinead O'Conner, Prince,
Queen Latifah, Ma Rainey, Cole Porter, Schubert,
Pete Townshend, Luther Vandross…
Authors: Edward Albee, Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Lord Byron, Truman Capote, Noël Coward, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, E.M.Forster, Allen Ginsburg, Radclyffe Hall, Langston Hughes,
A.E. Houseman, Christopher Isherwood, Audre Lorde,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marcel Proust, Annie Proulx,
Bayard Rustin, Gertrude Stein, Gore Vidal, Walt Whitman,
Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Tennessee Williams.
and the list goes on...
Be proud, it's a diverse and accomplished part of our community and we have much to recognize and celebrate...
With pride, Angela
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