75 Songs That Are The Gay Natnal Anthem

Contents:

• 30 SONGS FROM THE EARLY 2000S THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND WOKE STRAIGHTS WILL REMEMBER
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"

30 SONGS FROM THE EARLY 2000S THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND WOKE STRAIGHTS WILL REMEMBER

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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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Gay bullyg led at least six teenagers to take their own liv, so Kha wrote the song out of ncern for people who have to pretend to be someone other than who they are.

” Ined, female pop stars have always held a special place the hearts of mds of the LGBTQ muny and this burst of self-empowerg gay anthems no doubt had some impact on the more wispread acceptance of the g , cludg the passg of gay marriage 2015. ” And of urse, the powerful chos ends wh, “I have been to the movi/I’ve seen how ends/And the joke’s on them, ” a pellg and fiant msage to all the haters and homophob out there.

THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"

The vio received a Special Regnn Award om the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) at their 14th Media Awards. Created om the “gay nightlife scene of New York, ” the Scissor Sisters, which nsists of three LGBTQ members cludg founrs Jake Shears and Babydaddy (aka Stt Hoffman), “Let’s Have a Kiki” isn’t their only song that tackl LGBTQ them…but may be their most fabulo one. In se you’re unfaiar, a kiki is a term gay culture for a gatherg of iends, ually volvg some tea, sha and gossip.

The song beme even more gay when was vered by Sarah Jsi Parker, Lea Michele and Chris Colfer on Glee when they did a Thanksgivg mash-up of “Let’s Have a Kiki” and “Turkey Lurkey Time. Whether you grew up gay the ’80s, ’90s, 2000s or 2010s, this song is relatable and applible, so ’s great to have a song that celebrat the muny g together a safe space…at a kiki. At the begng of that year, gay marriage was only legal 6 stat (New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachetts, New Hampshire, Vermont) and the District of Columbia.

Throughout the song, Macklemore raps about how his uncle is gay, how he thought he may have been gay as a kid and how he’d fear beg hated by others the hip-hop muny if he were gay. “Misogyny and homophobia are the two acceptable means of opprsn hip-hop culture.