Dove Cameron, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Doechii, MUNA, Joy Oladokun and Tokischa are forging exciting new paths for LGBTQ+ musicians now.
Whether they’re spitting bars, singing an aria or rocking out with a guitar, these fearless creators are proving that when it comes to both identity and art, there are no boundaries.Anthony Roth Costanzo photographed on May 17, 2022 at Seret Studios in Brooklyn.When opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo began plotting the follow-up to his Grammy Award-nominated 2018 album,, the Durham, N.C.
While Costanzo says that opera — with its history steeped in queens, divas and camp — is in some ways “even more queer than Broadway,” that connection isn’t necessarily apparent to everyone. When Bond and Costanzo set their sights on a collaborative concert with the New York Philharmonic, “there were a lot of roadblocks to get through — it was totally different from what they normally do,” Costanzo explains.
A landmark deal as Top Dawg Entertainment’s first female rapper, and her subsequent signing with Capitol Records, set her well on her way toward achieving that goal. “When I would talk to other labels, I could tell they admired my talent, but they were already [set] on a formula that they felt works and didn’t want to budge on,” Doechii explains. When her breakthrough single,dropped in 2020, major labels like Warner and Universal came knocking; still, she stayed independent.
“I feel a really big responsibility to make an influence on pop culture,” she says, referring to a time when artists like Aretha Franklin released raw, soul-baring music before “things got a bit more superficial. I want to switch that narrative. We don’t have to be afraid of real.” Happy accident or not, “Boyfriend” has redefined Cameron’s career. It’s her highest-charting single yet on the, a commercial breakthrough driven by TikTok — where, on the advice of her label, Disruptor Records, Cameron posted various demo clips and watched “Boyfriend” blow up, accumulating over 700,000 videos to date using its sound.
“There’s suddenly this big, capital Q on my chest,” she explains. “It’s massively encouraging and wonderfully moving and I’m so privileged that I am in a space where I can be who I am publicly, but there’s also suddenly a lot of expectations publicly. It is weird to navigate all of these intricacies before you even really know where your own lines between personal and public are.”
Not so long ago, Tokischa was in a very different place: head in her hands, daydreaming about acting classes while miserably answering phones for a FedEx call center. “I would be so high, place the customers on hold and totally forget why they called,” she says with a chuckle. “I had a moment of depression. The call center sucked the dreams out of me.
Sometimes, she’s lumped into folk, likened to her hero Tracy Chapman; maybe, she figures, because she’ll dedicate a portion of every live set to just playing guitar, baring her soul in the dark. Sometimes, she’s called an Americana or country artist, based on her close ties to Maren Morris and Brandi Carlile, or because she’s based in Nashville, where she’s signed to Prescription Songs as a writer.
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