I’m talking about the major artists in the typical season at the local concert hall. Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, etc.
Over the past 5 years, the works of black and female orchestral composers has gotten more attention. Unfortunately that is driven by leftists who see racism and champion the vapid, and more than likely go home and listen to Ed Sheeran.
That said, some good has come of it: Amy Beth Kirsten and the late Florence Price have some compelling works. Hopefully some of their works continue being performed in the future.
It was always on the hush-hush like most things homosexual then, but everyone in the days of disco knew that Tchaikovsky and Poulenc in the past, and Copland, Bernstein, Gould, Britten, and Barber then, were light in the loafers. Today the LGBTQ crowd has taken over pop music, but back in the day if you were looking for gayness you went to Juilliard, not Height-Ashbury.