gay musicians

Out lesbian author and comedian Carol Leifer and gay favorite musician Cindy Lauper will be among the all-star celebrity cast for the third season of The Celebrity Apprentice premiering March 14. The ladies include Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Selita Ebanks, Maria Kanellis, and Summer Sanders.

Long ago Susan Surftone bucked the notion that surf music is for the boys. A lesbian with a flair for instrumental surf music, Portland, Oregon-based Surftone formed Susan and the Surftones during the third wave of the feminist movement back in 1993. She’s since come out with more than a dozen releases nationally and internationally, her latest of which is Shore, released in October of 2011.

Patricia Barber is an out and proud — and internationally renowned — pianist, singer, and composer.

On September 14, lesbian singer-songwriter Natalia Zukerman took the stage at SPACE in Evanston, Ill., with a veritable who's-who of fellow out songstresses: The Rescues' AG, Garrison Star, Susan Werner, Erin McKeown, and many more.

AG queers The Beatles with her latest EP.

After the better part of a decade on Columbia's roster, the out singer-songwriter is ready for a change of pace.