"Turkey's gay-lesbians on their way to be recognized
Monday, April 9, 2007
Generations in Turkey grew up with the fabulous voice and around 200 compositions of the classical Turkish music performer Zeki Müren, who dared to sing with a man's body in women's clothes and make-up in 1950's Turkey. Turks called their first Golden Record awarded artist the �sun of art', never openly referring to him as �gay' but rather as �extraordinary.' Müren was not the only one with different sexual tendencies and was followed by Bülent Ersoy, whose approved talent in the same art competed from time to time with her transsexual identity."
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