For everyone who has ever rocked out to Lady Gaga‘s 2011 smash hit "Born This Way," the singer would like to make sure you're just as amped about one of the song's main inspirations - Carl Bean's 1977 ...

Pride weekend has come and gone, and San Francisco is shaking off its collective hangover. For three days, a series of ...

Gospel artist and minister Carl Bean, who sang the gay pride anthem “I Was Born This Way,” has died at age 77 after a long battle with an illness undisclosed to the public.

Carl Bean, a gay icon who escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Baltimore to become a Motown singer, founder of an LGBT church network and eventually an archbishop, has died. He was 77.

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WASHINGTON — Archbishop Carl Bean, an LGBTQ advocate and the pioneering recording artist for the song "I Was Born This Way," has died. He was 77. The Unity Fellowship Church Movement (UFCM ...

Archbishop Carl Bean, an AIDS activist and pioneer in the LGBTQ religious movement, has died. The openly gay pastor was also a Motown singer. His version of "I Was Born This Way" inspired Lady Gaga.

Bean thanked Gaga for reviving the song, stating how “I Was Born This Way” is relevant decades later for the LGBTQ+ community. “When Gaga did [hers], I felt the same way, knowing that it’s ...

Carl Bean, the Motown artist who inspired Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” and founded a church to provide a spiritual home for the Black LGBTQ community, died in L.A. on Tuesday. He was 77.

Archbishop Carl Bean, who founded Unity Fellowship of Christ Church in Los Angeles and worked for many years as an AIDS activist, has died.

A 1977 promotional photo of Carl Bean for the 12” disco single ‘I Was Born This Way.’ (Courtesy of I Was Born This Way Production, LLC) The lyrics to “I Was Born This Way” were written by Bunny Jones, ...

In the clip, Gaga and fellow fan Questlove reflect on the impact of Bean’s 1977 hit single, in which he sang, “I’m happy, I’m carefree/ I’m gay, I was born this way.” More from Billboard ...