Lady Gaga honors queer music icon Carl Bean and his 1977 national anthem "This is how I was born" I was born this way.
In the movie, Gaga, Questlove and Billy Porter are the people who reflect on the powerful impact of the song on the LGBTQ community. "This song is actually the music of a dedication tree," Questlove said.
The clip starts with the success of the chart Billboard Hot 100, and how it became the "direct national anthem of the gay community" accepted by DJs worldwide.
Gaga reflects Bean's legacy with her own bean-influenced LGBTQ anthem "Born This Way" titled her sophomore album. "It's more than just a hit song," she said. "The action didn't stop." ”
In the editing, Questlove added that the song was “beyond the hot” and inspired hope and “revolution.” "This is a national anthem," he said. "The national anthem will never die."
"The national anthem unified people. They helped us celebrate," Gaga added. "People come together and say, 'This is what we believe. This is what we care about. We are louder. We are stronger. We can do it together.'"
Bean will eventually leave the music industry and create a minority AIDS program to help underserved populations at the height of the AIDS epidemic, and eventually, the first LGBTQ+ ministry is called the Unity Scholarship Church.
I was born this way Questlove, Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Porter have been executive producers for six years. Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard directed the film, which will premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 5.
"This sequence in the movie shows the lasting legacy of Bean's songs, and this movie shows his lasting influence in many other surprising ways." Rolling stones. “There are a lot of celebrity creature presenters these days, and I don’t disparage it – Sam and I have made them – but I think the real pleasure of documentaries is that when you’re surprised by something you never realize, you never realize it’s a big part of our world… Hopefully this is what this movie does.”
"Not only his rendition of the song, but what he has done for decades to activism in the LGBTQ+ community is both groundbreaking and heartfelt," Pollard added.
Gaga has long believed that Bean died in 2021 at the age of 77, but was interviewed for the film before he passed away. The natural way. Prior to Pride Month of 2021, she wrote on Twitter:The natural wayMy songs and albums were inspired by the gay black religious activist Carl Bean, who preached, sang and wrote about “This is Born.” …Thank you for decades of ruthless love, heroism and reason for singing. Therefore, we can all feel joy because we deserve happiness. ”