Carl Bean, Gay Singer Who Turned to Preaching, Dies at 77

The New York Times – by Neil Genzlinger

Carl Bean, who in 1977 recorded “I Was Born This Way,” a disco song of L.G.B.T.Q. pride that became a much-remixed club favorite — and who then became a minister and AIDS activist, founding a church in Los Angeles that sought to serve the spiritual needs of gay people and others who were marginalized — died on Tuesday. He was 77.

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