{"id":807205,"date":"2020-05-07T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=994889"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:00:20","slug":"grammy-museum-digital-drag-fest-announce-celebration-of-lgbtq-songwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/grammy-museum-digital-drag-fest-announce-celebration-of-lgbtq-songwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Museum, Digital Drag Fest Announce Celebration of LGBTQ+ Songwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Grammy Museum<\/a> has partnered with Producer Entertainment Group\u2019s Digital Drag Fest to host Writing With Pride, a day of panels in performances in celebration of LGBTQ<\/a>+ songwriters and performers. RuPaul\u2019s<\/em> Drag Race<\/em> and Drag Race All Stars<\/em> winners Alaska, Jinxk Monsoon, and Trixie Mattel<\/a> will participate alongside pop secret weapons Justin Tranter and Leland.<\/p>\n

Taking place on May 16th, the event will air on StageIt as a part of the successful Digital Drag Fest<\/a>, which launched in March and will tentatively end on May 31st after being extended for a fourth time. Mattel, Tranter, and Leland will host a kick-off panel and performance in the afternoon before artists like Sharon Needles, Manila Luzon, and pop star Bright Light Bright Light<\/a> take the virtual stage to perform and tell the stories behind their songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, LGBTQ+ visibility within the songwriting world is crucial. To know that someone is talking to<\/em> your experience from<\/em> your experience is something that doesn\u2019t really cross your mind as a blessing until you realize you\u2019re not in the majority,\u201d says Rod Thomas, who DJs and performs under the alias Bright Light Bright Light. He released his new single \u201cThis Was My House<\/a>\u201d last month from his forthcoming album, Fun City<\/em>. \u201cGrowing up, having artists like Elton John, Erasure and KD Lang as multi-million selling artists, and later discovering Sylvester and the many other renowned LGBTQ+ artists, helped me feel like I had a chance as a songwriter, not needing to transpose emotions into a \u2018straight\u2019 narrative. Whoever you are, whatever you aspire to, whatever background you\u2019re from, you need to see someone like you to really believe that you\u2019re not alone, and that you have a place in your industry and ultimately the creative world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Wrabel, known professionally as Wrabel, will also join in on the day of festivities. He has most recently written with Kesha, Backstreet Boys, and Louis Tomlinson alongside his own career as a performer. \u201cIt\u2019s so important to spotlight songwriters in the LGBTQ+ community, not only for the general exposure, but because we all have our own individual journeys that we are on,\u201d he tells RS<\/em>. \u201cI have always used songs as a way of expression. Often for things I\u2019m too afraid to say out loud. I think through music and lyric we can better understand each other\u2019s hearts and heads and dreams and struggles. And events like this are such a beautiful way of sharing.\u201d<\/p>\n

More artists will be announced in the week leading up to the event.<\/p>\n

The Grammy Museum and PEG Presents: Writing with Pride<\/strong><\/p>\n

11 A.M. PT \u2013 Kickoff Panel & Performances: Trixie Mattel, Justin Tranter, Leland
12:30 P.M. PT \u2013 Alaska Thunderfuck
<\/span>2 P.M. PT \u2013 Bright Light Bright Light
<\/span>3 P.M. PT \u2013 Nina West
<\/span>4 P.M. PT \u2013 Ginger Minj
<\/span>5 P.M. PT \u2013 Wrabel
<\/span>6 P.M. PT \u2013 Manila Luzon
<\/span>7 P.M. PT \u2013 Jinkx Monsoon
<\/span>8 P.M. PT \u2013 Sharon Needles
<\/span>9 P.M. PT \u2013 BeBe Zahara Benet<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Grammy Museum has partnered with Producer Entertainment Group\u2019s Digital Drag Fest to host Writing With Pride, a day of panels in performances in celebration of LGBTQ+ songwriters and performers. RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race and Drag Race All Stars winners Alaska, Jinxk Monsoon, and Trixie Mattel will participate alongside pop secret weapons Justin Tranter and Leland. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 19:14:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}