Lady Gaga praised disco legend Carl Bean's 1977 gay anthem "I Was Born This Way" in a new clip from an upcoming documentary.

"When that song stopped charting, they didn't stop playing that song in clubs," Gaga says in new film I Was Born This Way.

Watch the trailer for the Carl Bean documentary 'I Was Born This Way,' about the singer-turned-minister who inspired Lady ...

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 ...

While celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her second studio album, "Born This Way," Lady Gaga shared more about who inspired the empowering collection of music and its hit title track.

By Neil Genzlinger Carl Bean, who in 1977 recorded “I Was Born This Way,” a disco song of L.G.B.T.Q. pride that became a much-remixed club favorite — and who then became a minister and AIDS ...

Archbishop Carl Bean, an AIDS activist and pioneer in the LGBTQ religious movement, has died. The openly gay pastor was also a Motown singer. His version of "I Was Born This Way" inspired Lady Gaga.

“Dear Mother and Dad, I know you don’t love me,“ it began. Carl Bean had just confided to his foster parents that he had known he was gay since childhood when he had a crush on a boy “with ...

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 ...

Carl Bean, a gay icon who escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Baltimore to become a Motown singer, founder of an LGBT church network and eventually an archbishop, has died. He was 77.

Donate now. Carl Bean, the Motown artist who inspired Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” and founded a church to provide a spiritual home for the Black LGBTQ community, died in L.A. on Tuesday.