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Gay composers

  • Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the 22nd of November 1913. His father Robert Victor Britten worked as a…
  • Elton JohnOn the 25th of March 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight entered the world in Pinner, Middlesex. His father served in the Royal Air Force and his mother worked as…
  • Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyOn the 7th of May 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in the small town of Votkinsk within the Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire.
  • Aaron CoplandAaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 14th of November 1900. He grew up above his family's store at 628 Washington Avenue.
  • Billy PrestonWilliam Everett Preston entered the world on the 2nd of September 1946, in Houston. He moved to Los Angeles as a child with his mother Robbie Lee Williams.