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This is Code Switch from MPR with the podcast Extra this week. I'm Adrian Flodido.

And I'm Jean Demby.

So every now and then, Jean, a musician comes along who proves to be, you know, much more than just an entertainer or a songwriter.

And this past week, Mexican vocalist Juan Gabriel died unexpectedly of an apparent heart attack.

And he was one of those musicians whose work really transcended art.

But he also had a really complicated relationship with his fans and with society more broadly, specifically Mexican society.

He was practically a household name in Mexico as I learned this week.

His unexpected death was a cause for national mourning there.

And while many Latinos here in the US took the social media to more in Juan Gabriel, he was virtually unknown to mainstream US music fans.

I mean, I didn't really know much about him until you were schooling me about him this week and he was fascinating figure.

Yeah.

So today, we're going to take a short look at Juan Gabriel and specifically just one aspect of his career in particular, the intersection of sexual identity and popular culture.

So to do that, we're going to do two things today.

First off, I spoke with Madre Sadolevi as he is a musician, artist, writer in New York.

And he wrote a column for Fusion a couple of years ago.

And he titled it and then God said, let heterosexuals enjoy one.

God be it.

All right.

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