Huh?

[doronjosama]

Sony to start gay & lesbian record label.

Um, maybe I am missing the point here, but why can't gay & lesbian musicians continue to be on the same record labels as everyone else? This seems like a bad idea to me. On the one hand, it would be a clear label gay people could look for when shopping for CDs, but on the other hand, it could also be a clear label that could prevent other people from buying the CDs. "Hey, don't buy that, that's from that queer record company!" "Shoot, yer right Virgil, I don't wanna support no faggots!"

I don't see why gay or lesbian artists would need to be segregated onto their own label. It seems like it would marginalize their work. But maybe that's just me.

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[gregmce.livejournal.com]

The only people who will see it being catalogued as GLBT are the people who want to see it that way. Labels themselves mean virtually nothing these days. You don't, for instance, see Kimberley Locke's pop album listed as being under country music even though it was released under Curb Records. All it really comes down to is someone at Sony being given a lot of power to manage their own little subempire of music and they're planning on signing GLBT artists.

Seriously... labels mean virtually nothing these days other than who's behind it. Nothing more, nothing less.