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Contents:
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
- 60 SONGS THAT WILL CLEAR OUT THE BATHROOM AT ANY GAY BAR
- 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
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It proclaims, “No matter gay, straight or bi / Lbian, transgenred life / I’m on the right track, baby / I was born to survive.” The song (and album) later spired Gaga's non-prof anizatn, the Born This Way Foundatn.18"Vogue" by Madonna18"Vogue" by MadonnaCred: AmazonInspired by the Harlem ballroom scene durg the late 1980s, Madonna's "Vogue" is an inic classic that brought the vogue-g tradn to mastream pop. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below19"Girls Like Girls" by Hayley Kiyoko19"Girls Like Girls" by Hayley KiyokoCred: Amazon"Girls Like Girls" put Hayley Kiyoko on the map as an up-and-g sger 2015 — and tapulted her on the way to earng herself the moniker "Lbian J." The song self is a charmg lbian anthem, say nothg of s adorable mic vio, wh lyrics like, "Girls like girls / Like boys do / Nothg new."20"I'm Comg Out" by Diana Ross20"I'm Comg Out" by Diana RossCred: AmazonApparently, Chic's Nile Rodgers was spired to wre this funky 1980 dance h for Diana Ross after seeg multiple drag queens drsed as the sger at a New York gay club. While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today.
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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
Get ready to celebrate wh our list of gay anthems to stir the heart and move the hips. Happy Pri, everyone! * gay cooking song *
It’s a quiet piano ballad about growg up gay. The lyrics e om the out-and-proud Brish punk rocker Tom Robson, who had a h of his own wh “Glad to be Gay.” The payoff is the tenr moment at the end when Elton sgs, “I would give my life/For a sgle night bi you.” Maybe he sred himself wh how emotnal he uld be – was years before he tried anythg this revealg aga.
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60 SONGS THAT WILL CLEAR OUT THE BATHROOM AT ANY GAY BAR
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The Bay Area gay punk pneers found a ht of mastream fame when they toured wh Green Day on their Dookie n 1994, but was their sexy lyrics and who-giv-a-fuck attu that enared them to a generatn of queer kids – before that term was even fashnable.
30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
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