Gays make these kinds of artists popular (our power ) because they use our culture in their music.
Biggest Examples: Vouging. And Queen Khia said it best, Beyoncé is basically a drag Queen.
Madonna painted a positive image to being homosexual or a lesbian or bisexual, et cetera. Gaga painted a negative image to being LGBT. Gaga depicts and projects an image of torment and death when she visually and vocally represents the LGBT. Madonna pushed the gay conversation forward with positivity. Gaga set the gay conversation back with negativity.