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 worked ...

Carl Bean, the preacher, performer and activist who inspired Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” has passed away at the age of 77. A statement from the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, which Bean founded ...

Carl Bean, the preacher, performer, and activist recognized for opening the first Black church for LGBTQ+ people and known for first singing the gay liberation song “I Was Born This Way,” has died.

WASHINGTON — Archbishop Carl Bean, an LGBTQ advocate and the pioneering recording artist for the song "I Was Born This Way," has died. He was 77. The Unity Fellowship Church Movement (UFCM) announced ...

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, were inspired ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Archbishop Carl Bean, a prominent Los Angeles gay activist and singer who inspired the Lady Gaga song "Born This Way," has died. Bean, founder of the Unity Fellowship of Christ ...

Carl Bean, the openly gay gospel artist and minister who sang "I Was Born This Way" has died, The Guardian reports. Bean's passing was confirmed in a statement from the Unity Fellowship Church ...

Carl Bean, who in 1977 recorded “I Was Born This Way,” a disco song of LGBTQ pride that became a much-remixed club favorite — and who then became a minister and AIDS activist, founding a church in Los ...