Lady Gaga‘s Born This Way is one of her most famous albums. During an interview, she revealed the song “Born This Way” was not initially going to be its lead single. She also referred to the album as ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Archbishop Carl Bean, a prominent Los Angeles gay activist and singer who inspired the Lady Gaga song "Born This Way," has died. Bean, founder of the Unity Fellowship of Christ ...

For most of her fans, Lady Gaga’s Grammy-nominated song “Born This Way” felt like a love letter to her queer followers. An acknowledgement that she saw and heard them and shared their feelings of ...

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” wouldn’t be the same without Whitney Houston. Gaga stressed that Madonna was not her only influence even though she was a huge fan. “Born This Way” was the first of many ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” climbs to a new peak on the U.K.’s ...

Carl Bean, the preacher, performer, and activist recognized for opening the first Black church for LGBTQ+ people and known for first singing the gay liberation song “I Was Born This Way,” has died.

The singer's red-hot-at-radio single is also a strong seller worldwide. By Charlie Amter Lady Gaga didn’t just make an impression at the Grammy Awards and on various media outlets last weekend: She ...

This May, when Lady Gaga celebrated the 10-year anniversary of her hit album “Born this Way,” she gave an acknowledgment shoutout to Bishop Carl Bean. “Born This Way, my song and album, were inspired ...

Carl Bean, who in 1977 recorded “I Was Born This Way,” a disco song of LGBTQ pride that became a much-remixed club favorite — and who then became a minister and AIDS activist, founding a church in Los ...

Carl Bean possessed the voice of an angel and the soul of a saint. The man whose story is told in the documentary I Was Born This Way was born in Baltimore, MD in 1944 and raised primarily by his ...