Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men – Billboard

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

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.

gay clubs but, wh a strg of hs, expand to natnal tours and TV. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis,” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era. Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi .

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

Rodgers later told the Mail on Sunday that they wrote the track “bee of her gay followg,” but fibbed a ltle to a sktish Ross.

“A DJ told her [the song] was gog to her reer – people would thk she was gay,” Rodgers said. It’s a quiet piano ballad about growg up gay.

60 SONGS THAT WILL CLEAR OUT THE BATHROOM AT ANY GAY BAR

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. Much of Erasure’s disgraphy embodi not precisely celebratory gay pri but gay romantic realy – a ankns about the emotnal, if not overtly sexual, liv of gay men toward the end of the 20th century.

So when out Brish duo Andy Bell and Vce Clarke’s plative yet buoyant sgle beme a worldwi h gay-uniendly 1988, felt quietly revolutnary to anyone the know. The gay teens and tweens, most of them closeted, fely did.

“Beg gay and open about is my substance.” –JR. Ontman had long been a whe-hot sex symbol, role mol and trendsetter for gay men and other LGBTQ dividuals across the world.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

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. It’s difficult to pick one song that f them – wh songs like “Dick of Death,” “Groovy Unrwear” or their classic ver of Prce’s “Jack You Off” – but we went wh one that seems to fy the ia of a gay “anthem” no matter how you thk of .

“One thg that we have is that we’ve always sung about beg gay.

We’re not jt gay and micians,” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.