Category Archive for "Trailblazer"

Big Mama

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton

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Grace Jones

Gospel According to Grace Jones

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Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy Somerville – “Smalltown Boy”

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Freddy Mercury

Freddie Mercury, “His Holy Greatness King Frederick of Mercury and the Entire Universe of Everything Awesome”

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Sylvester

Sylvester, “Queen of Disco”

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Larry Levan

Larry Levan, Back to Paradise

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Frankie Knuckles

Frankie Knuckles: Pour That Baby Powder Like Libation

Frankie Knuckles has left us. Our Starchild of Disco, who has spun galaxies of beats and sweat-trances of love and sex for all to live. Knuckles, “The Godfather of House Music,” has shuffled off this mortal coil and has merged with…

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Happy Birthday, Bayard Rustin!

Happy birthday to Bayard Rustin. Here was a man who ferociously tended a diverse ecosystem of struggle–as an anti-war warrior, civil rights activist, labor rights crusader, human rights monitor, and gifted strategist. As Martin Luther King, Jr.’s chief adviser, Rustin…

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Lorraine Hansberry: One + Love Celebrates Queer Women’s History Month

“I was born black and female,” said the trailblazing playwright Lorraine Hansberry. Her Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. She won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in…

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