Bette Midler's Career Was Always A Little Queer (Fresh Air+)

The multi-hyphenate singer, actor and author Bette Midler has been a LGBTQ+ icon for much of her wildly successful career. It's only appropriate then, in the middle of Pride Month 2024, that we look back to the unlikely beginnings of that career — as a popular singer in a gay men's bathhouse in 1970s New York City. Hear Midler's 1998 interview in full: https://n.pr/3KsuiZ2. Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.