The 50 Gayt Songs of the 1990s: Part 1

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE
• THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC GAY DANCE MIC

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE

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Group, Bronski Beat, released a gay anthem lled “Smalltown Boy” as the first sgle off their but album The Age of Consent. Unlike Queen, all three members of Bronski Beat were openly gay and their songs reflected this as well. It was the semi-tobgraphil story of lead sger Jimmy Somerville about the opprsn of homosexuals the early ’80s provcial Stland.

THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC GAY DANCE MIC

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Sure, RuPl had already broken before this song and movie (see our number one song) and the mid-’90s were surprisgly gay-iendly — To Wong Foo was sandwiched between the release of two other celebrated and succsful mastream LGBTQ films, The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert 1994 and The Birdge 1996. And the song is still performed today by drag queens gay bars across the untry.