![]() Smith, married twice to straight men, crowed, “I got 12 women on this show, and I can have one every night if I want it” and you felt her wink as she sang ‘Foolish Man Blues’ (1927) and ‘It’s Dirty But Good’ (1930). In Rainey’s ‘Prove It On Me Blues’ (1928) she declared, “Went out last night with a crowd of my friends/ They must’ve been women, ‘cause I don’t like no men/ It’s true I wear a collar and a tie…” ![]() In the 1920s, blues bisexuals Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey and jazz queers Billie Holiday and Lucille Bogan were more than just hinting about it in their songs. ‘Īre Friends Electric?’ was about a futuristic gay hooker robot, which he disguised with obscure lyrics “because the BBC would never have played it, they’d never have let me on Top of the Pops. Gary Numan aka Tubeway Army’s Asperger’s Syndrome meant battles with depression and using technology to define isolation.
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