LGBT music artists are changing how popular culture embraces sexuality and conventional notions of identity and love, and they’re just getting started! With the counter culture brashness of bands like Scissor Sisters, and the sensuality of melodic love and heartbreak heard from artists like Sam Smith, it is clear that today’s music fans are looking for authentic stories that represent the diversity of their identities. More than any time in the past, today music artists are pushing the envelope in terms of the types of emotional and sexual experiences they are choosing to share with their fans. This push is opening the door to a wave of social, personal and sexual exploration that is finally connecting with, and celebrating, the experiences of the LGBT community;and more importantly it is creating an environment for inclusion.