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Contents:
- 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
- 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
- 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- THE 50 GAYT SONGS OF ALL TIME: HOORAY!
- ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
* gay songs of all time *
Image: Time Out/D-Free/ShutterstockMove your hips wh the sential gay songs, om unfettable LGBTQ+ anthems to poignant ballads explorg queer lifeThirty days of summer is a pretty paltry amount of time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ muny. And while we’d never balk at an exce to celebrate everythg that Pri stands for, we also believe that any time is the perfect time to crank up the gay songs and let the rabow flag fly.
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‘I Will Survive’ by Gloria GaynorIt starts off slowly, shroud fear; then the beat kicks , the song builds nfince, and by the end, now backed by a strg sectn, ’s a full-bore dis anthem of self-assurance. On s betiful face, Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’ is about a woman gettg over the guy who done her wrong; but 1978, as gay liberatn was gatherg steam heated nightclubs around the world, also played like a claratn of hard-won pri (‘I ed to cry / But now I hold my head up high’) and pennce om the hetero norm (‘I’m not that chaed-up ltle person still love wh you’).
55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
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Rerd at the height of Ameri's AIDS crisis and spired by New York’s unrground gay ball scene (famoly documented the 1991 film Paris Is Burng), Madonna’s ep-hoe–flected 1990 smash mands you to leave the heavy stuff asi—if only for a few mut—and fd salvatn on the dance floor. Nearly a quarter of a century later, this classic track om one of the most beloved gay ins of all time sounds no ls imperative.
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Chic’s Nile Rodgers was spired to wre this funky 1980 gem for Diana Ross after seeg multiple drag queens drsed as the inic sger at a gay dis New York. Today, Ross still opens her shows wh ‘I'm Comg Out’, and the song remas a qutsential anthem of liberatn—gay or otherwise.
‘Over the Rabow’ by Judy GarlandFor generatns who grew up as ‘iends of Dorothy’, yearng to pe to a realm of Technilor urban fantasy, the tac gay natnal anthem was Garland’s wistful ballad om 1939’s The Wizard of Oz (wh a geo melody by Harold Arlen and touchg lyrics by social activist E.Y. But even now that so many closet doors have opened, ‘Over the Rabow’—and don’t you dare ll ‘Somewhere Over the Rabow’ lt someone threaten to revoke your gay rd—still spir pri and reverence.
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‘A Ltle Rpect’ by Erasure‘What relign or reason uld drive a man to forsake his lover?’ sgs Andy Bell on this stirrg synth-pop classic — a h for Brish duo Erasure 1988, and a perfect, piquant rponse to the Brish ernment’s outrageoly homophobic Sectn 28 legislatn.
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Word is that at the time, Bell would troduce the song onstage sayg, ‘When I was a ltle girl, I asked my mummy, ‘Can I be gay when I grow up?’ She replied, ‘Y, if you show a ltle rpect.’’Image: Capol Rerds11. ‘Y.M.C.A.’ by Village PeopleFor any guy who’s ever wanted to be (or sleep wh) a wboy, p or leather-clad biker, the Village People reign supreme as gay-anthem chart toppers. Along the way, the openly gay sisters stck a major blow for LGBTQ+ reprentatn mastream pop, which has steadily been improvg ever sce.
‘Go Wt’ by Pet Shop BoysWhen the Village People got all Horace Greeley 1979, was most likely a wk and a nod to the growg gay utopia of San Francis. ‘It’s Rag Men’ by the Weather GirlsGay ins Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Cher and Barbra Streisand all turned down Pl Jabara and Pl Shaffer’s mpy posn before the Weather Girls snapped up 1982. ‘Let’s Have a Kiki’ by Scissor SistersIn the summer of 2012, ‘Let's Have a Kiki’ was so ubiquo gay bars that nearly crossed over to annoyg.
Mogue herself has said that the vio is an homage to her gay dience; featur a human pyramid of pansexual smoochg ( the style of naked-stallatn artist Spencer Tunick). The drag queen-slash-mogul buted this sassy h 1992, wng over not only gay fans, but an dience as wi as that of Nirvana’s Kurt Coba, who ced the song as one of his favor a year later. ‘Born This Way’ by Lady GagaNo one has ever mpaigned for a gay fan base que so openly as Lady Gaga, and her 2011 h ‘Born This Way’ was her most obv gift to our mographic.
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‘Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)’ by C+C Mic FactoryA gag a 1997 episo of The Simpsons found a seemgly ‘manly’ steel l turng to a flamboyant gay club when this 1990 track me over the loudspeaker — an ditn of jt how thoroughly gay this song is. ‘Gonna Make You Sweat’ is the send song on our list featurg the powerhoe vols of Weather Girls sger Martha Wash, who never que achieved mastream fame (she was replaced this track’s vio by C+C Mic Factory member Zelma Davis), but has been beloved by the gay muny for s. ‘Your Lovg Arms’ by Billie Ray MartMost gay dance anthems are packed wh drama of both the lyril and vol variety.
‘Tated Love’ by Soft CellOkay, the gay experience is not all about empowerment and acceptance and rabows and unirns. And gay lead sger Marc Almond gave a subtle but unniable edge of queer sir knowledge.Image: Cooperative Mic31.