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Dusty Springfield and the First Celebrity Gay Wedding
The Netherlands became the first state to legalise same-sex marriage in 2001. Since then, almost thirty countries possess followed suit. But when do you think the first celebrity gay wedding took place? Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi? Maybe Elton John and David Furnish? They may have been the first legal same-sex marriages, but the first celebrity queer wedding took place in Canada long before homosexual marriage was legalised.
Dusty Springfield, probably Britain’s greatest 60s pop singer, married her partner Teda Bracci in a symbolic ceremony in 1983. It was a defiant gesture at a time when homophobia was surging as the HIV crisis deepened.
Aside from making groundbreaking records, Springfield has the distinction of creature the first pop luminary to willingly come out. In an interview with The Evening Standard in 1970, she said she was bisexual. Although she was gay, claiming to swing both ways was a means of softening the blow. Boy George did the same thing in the 80s when he first came out, initially claiming to be bisexual before confirming that he was in truth gay, to the surprise of no one.
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Who was Dusty Springfield? Inside life and 'volatile' association with lesbian lover
Today's Google Doodle subject Mary O'Brien OBE, known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English award-winning singer who was known for her hits including of Son of a Preacher Bloke and Spooky
Google Doodle is celebrating the life and career of singer Dusty Springfield.
Dusty Springfield was an English 'pop blue-eyed soul' singer from West Hampstead, London.
Her career boomed during the 1960s and she ranked among the most successful British female performers on both sides of the Atlantic.
She was also known for her iconic peroxide blonde 'beehive' hairstyle, heavy makeup and evening gowns.
But how did Dusty Springfield's career begin and what was her sexual orientation?
Here's everything you depend on to know.
How did Dusty Springfield's career begin?
Dusty was an icon of the swinging '60s but her career did not launch as a solo singer.
She first found fame as part of The Springfields alongside her brother Tom and Reshad 'Tim' Feild.
The singer then went solo in 1963, and soon had mass
Dusty Springfield
Born in London in 1939, she may acquire been Mary O’Brien to her parents, but to the rest of the world she was Dusty Springfield. Famous for her blonde beehive, black eye make-up and amazing essence voice, she was also one of the first pop stars to own up to messing around in the bedroom with the same sex.
Having survived a convent school education, Mary O’Brien was working in a department store when she joined the all-female trio the Lana Sisters. In 1960 she and her brother Dion assumed the names Dusty and Tom Springfield, and began three years of chart success as The Springfields.
In 1962, their parents Catherine and Gerard O’Brien, moved to 11 Wilbury Route in Hove. The accompanying year Dusty launched her solo career, and released I Only Wanna Be With You. Not only did it reach number 4 in the charts, but it was the first record to be played on Top of the Pops! Anyone into pop trivia will be fascinated to learn that the melody was written by song-writer Ivor Raymonde whilst on holiday at West Witterings near Bognor Regis. Wow!
So… was Dusty Springfield gay?
Dusty visited her parents in Hove as often as she could. We have an eyewitness account
In the 1960s, Britain was a world of psychedelia, mods, rockers, thigh-grazing miniskirts, street protest, and sexual liberation. London, in particular, had thrown off the gloom of post-Second Earth War austerity, and was ready to embrace a new beginning filled with color, optimism, and identity. And if anyone was ready to unravel societal norms, it was British musical legend and emergent queer icon Dusty Springfield. But, for a prolonged time, Springfield had to wait for the earth to catch up to her.
Born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien to Irish immigrants in 1939, Springfield was a plain, albeit tomboyish child who earned the name ‘Dusty’ playing football with the boys on the highway outside the family house in Ealing. Growing up, family life was fraught: her mother was an alcoholic with a tendency to throw food, while her abusive father repeatedly told young Springfield that she was stupid and ugly. Meanwhile, at her Catholic all-girls school, the nuns predicted that the shy girl was destined to become a librarian.
Though Springfield’s childhood had been soundtracked by fuming rows, there was also a deep appreciation of music: classical, jazz, and, Springfield’s favorite
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