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Contents:
- THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"
In the song "Johnny Run Away", the narrator (Ton and I) advis Johnny to “n away” to avoid beg persecuted as a gay person. * run away gay song *
Said dialogue was extremely-heartfelt and foced on the moment that said iend, Kurt, let his fay know that he was fact gay. And after beg aware of his son’s homosexual tennci, he tells Johnny “no, no” repeatedly.
Or stated differently, he explas to Johnny that gay is not the way. The suatn is that between the time his father advised him (as scribed earlier) and his fallg for Pete, Johnny had supprsed his homosexual urg. And this seems to be the moment when the tular character tly realiz that he is fact gay.
As the tle stat, Johnny is beg pelled to “n away” wh a gay lover (who might be Pete).
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* run away gay song *
She hop that by dog so, he n avoid beg “picked on” by the lik of his dad, who is the only flat-out anti-gay character prented the song.
Released 1984, “Smalltown Boy” remas an immaculate dancefloor gem, which tells the story of a young gay man leavg provcial homophobia behd search of a new life the big ’s ftg, then, that the band formed after they’d ma their own pilgrimag to London. The short film project followed members of the London Gay Teenage Group, cludg Somerville, as they nducted street terviews wh members of the public about their views on homosexualy. ”Jt months later, on 12 September 1983, the tr ma their live but at Heaven London as part of “September the Pk”, London’s first lbian and gay arts ftival.
It was a time when gay artists were jt startg to bee more visible the cultural mastream, a trend that was galvanised that October by the release of Frankie Go To Hollywood’s “Relax”, along wh s bched mic vio set an S&M club. “There were a lot of artists [ the Eighti] who were gay but not open about , like Boy Gee, Gee Michael, Freddie Mercury, Elton John – the people we now thk have always been out, but they were not out 1984, and they were all at the height of their fame, ” Rose told Yahoo Mic 2019. “Frankie Go to Hollywood were really the first on who me out and said, ‘Well, yeah, we’re gay.
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Later, outsi a snack bar, he is ambhed and subjected to a vic homophobic attack by the diver and his iends. The tle referred to the fact that, by 1984, the age of nsent for “homosexual acts” remaed at 21 the UK, while untri around Europe lowered to 16. “We listed si the sleeve the ag for homosexual and heterosexual terurse every untry around the world and when you saw wrten down the discrimatn was astonishg, ” Somerville told The Guardian 2006.
“We prted the number of the gay swchboards across Bra on the rerd sleeve and they were swamped as a rult. ” Even as gay people beme more culturally visible durg the Eighti, they ntued to be discrimated agast by the ernment. Four years after the release of “Smalltown Boy”, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative party passed the notor Sectn 28 laws, which banned the “promotn” of homosexualy schools and public librari.
It’s a timels pop h that also reprents a landmark advancg gay visibily Brish culture. “We were jt three openly gay men wrg songs about our liv, ” he said.