Below is a new article of Christina being mentioned at the New York Times on Gay Rights.

For Gays, New Songs of Survival

Another singer to whom Ke$ha, Ms. Perry and others are indebted is Christina Aguilera, although her current album, “Bionic,” has been heavily criticized as climbing on the electro-pop bandwagon and harping specifically on the sound and look of Lady Gaga. But Ms. Aguilera’s hit “Beautiful,” one of the few mainstream songs to function as a gay anthem in the early part of this decade, serves as a kind of template.

A somber ballad about fighting insecurity, “Beautiful” won a Grammy Award for best female pop vocal performance in 2004. Its appeal to the gay community was solidified with a video that featured both a man who was seen changing into women’s clothes and two boys defiantly locking lips eight years before Ms. Perry’s “Firework.” There was also a pounding club remix that was crafted by the superstar D. J. Peter Rauhofer, whose work helped to define the circuit party sound.