Lady Gaga praised disco legend Carl Bean's 1977 gay anthem "I Was Born This Way" in a new clip from an upcoming documentary.

Lady Gaga honors Carl Bean and his 1977 queer anthem 'I Was Born This Way' in a new doc clip with Questlove reflecting on the song's LGBTQ legacy.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Questlove and Jamie Lee Curtis and Emmy winner Billy Porter are joining forces to executive produce ...

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. “Archbishop Bean ...

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.

While celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her second studio album, "Born This Way," Lady Gaga shared more about who inspired the empowering collection of music and its hit title track.

“Dear Mother and Dad, I know you don’t love me,“ it began. Carl Bean had just confided to his foster parents that he had known he was gay since childhood when he had a crush on a boy “with ...

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.

This May, when Lady Gaga celebrated the 10-year anniversary of her hit album “Born this Way,” she gave an acknowledgment shoutout to Bishop Carl Bean. “Born This Way, my song and album ...