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Kylie Mogue’s latt sgle appears to be on the fast track to gay-classic stat. We asked D.J.s booked for Pri events to weigh on the track’s voted cult followg.

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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round. * anthems gay *

While her one-two punch of her femme-bashg “Ur So Gay” and her exhibnist fx-lbian “I Kissed A Girl” haven’t aged well, Perry has bee more progrsive and would be hard to fd a Pri para not playg this boomg (pun tend) anthem. The drag-centric mil took home six Tonys, cludg bt mil; bt sre (wh mic and lyrics by gay in Cyndi Lper); and outstandg actor a mil, for out-and-proud Billy Porter’s eback performance as Lola, a drag queen. In what appeared to be a rponse to the Brish ernment’s damng Sectn 28 act (which crimalized the promotn of homosexualy, rultg the closg of lbian, gay and bisexual support groups across Brish schools and lleg), the song qutns “What relign or reason uld drive a man to forsake his lover?

BT GAY ANTHEMS 2023: LGBTQ PRI SONGS PLAYLIST

From Lady Gaga and Christa Aguilera, to Elton John and Gloria Gaynor, we rank the 50 most spiratnal LGBTQ+ songs to uplift the queer muny * anthems gay *

Not only is Frozen’s Elsa the first Disney prcs whout a love tert, which has ved terpretatns of her beg gay or ace/aro, Elsa’s experience of isolatn and rejectn and her inty stggl are all too relatable to the movie’s queer dienc. Among her imprsive talogue of dance-pop gems, “All The Lovers” marked the first time the sger seemed to directly addrs her gay fanbase, along wh the acpanyg vio that featur a mass of upl of all strip makg out around her. “I’m Comg Out” didn’t jt allu to the former Supreme’s dis makeover, was a sign of support to her gay fanbase (whether Diana Ross was overtly aware of or not) crafted by funk archects Nile Rodgers and Chic -founr Bernard Edwards.

The inic ‘70s rock band led by gay superstar Freddie Mercury may be forever remembered for Bohemian Rhapsody, but this sexy, propulsive tune — that gleefully swaps male and female pronouns — perfectly ptur the spir of Pri.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web You Should Play It: Pull this out when you need to remd the room that one of the bt rock bands to exist was onted by a wildly talented volist who happened to be a gay Mgrav — “High Horse”This ntent is imported om Third party. "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.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

Get ready for Pri wh our bt gay anthems and top LGBTQ songs for Pri playlist. This is sure to get you on your feet and feelg proud. * anthems gay *

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 .

55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)

Get ready to celebrate wh our list of gay anthems to stir the heart and move the hips. Happy Pri, everyone! * anthems gay *

” Sgg “No fay is safe when I sashay, ” he slks to a nference room and gyrat his hips for a room full of sus – a sly riposte to the legns of homophob who weaponize their fears agast LGBTQ people, om wh board rooms, Congrs, or out on the streets.

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Do you want to listen to some LGBTQ pri songs? We've got you vered! Check out the 55 bt gay songs of all time. * anthems gay *

While high-energy classics like Whney’s “I Wanna Dance Wh Someone” and CeCe Peniston’s “Fally” see heavy rotatn among gay clubs, Grace Jon’ laid back staple out-queers them all, wh eyebrow-raisg lyrics: “Pull up to my bumper baby / In your long black limoe / Pull up to my bumper baby / And drive between. While “I Will Survive” seems like the obv choice for a Gaynor classic, “I Am What I Am” has gayer origs: the song, penned by out poser Jerry Herman, was wrten as the fale performance to close out the uber-gay Broadway mil La Cage x Foll.

Debutg at the top of charts across the world, the song is straightforward s tentn to empower the LGBTQ muny: “No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lbian, transgenred life / I’m on the right track, baby / I was born to survive, ” the superstar mands. And like her smash rerd, Bean’s 1977 track (which was prevly rerd by fellow Motown rerdg artist Valento) was forthright s gay lyricism: “I’m happy / I’m reful / I’m gay, ” the cheery-voiced sger proclaims over a dis beat.

THE ARE THE 20 MOST IMPORTANT GAY ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME

Punk rock. Dis. Folk. Jt as the muny is all-clive, the songs that shaped span across several genr. While new gay artists and empowerg anthems pop up daily, ’s important to honor the tried-and-te classics. * anthems gay *

The cln of many ABBA tracks the drag masterpiece ‘Priscilla Queen of the Dert’ helped make ABBA a favore of the gay muny, wh ‘Dancg Queen’ beg the obv choice for cln on this list bee many a dancg queen have twirled the night away to this song and will ntue for generatns to e. “Erasure’s out gay ont-man Andy Bell sgs about breakg the chas that bd , enuragg the listener to feel ee to be who they are — to walk ‘hand hand hand, ’ ‘makg plans together, ’ ‘our sisters and our brothers.

“Milly and lyrilly an homage to Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive, ’ this song is sung om the perspective of Cher to a cheatg lover, but one uld easily terpret the lyrics to be about a reprsive society that she is no longer willg to tolerate.

‘PHILALPHIA FREEDOM’ ISN’T JT A GAY ANTHEM. IT’S A PRI ANTHEM.

Billboard Explas div to what mak a gay pri anthem, and discsed the hs that has ntribut to the LGBTQ+ muny. * anthems gay *

Not necsarily a Pri anthem upon release, the song was always popular wh the LGBTQ+ muny, but after ’s proment cln the gay teen film ‘Love, Simon, ’ this song has bee a multi-generatnal anthem for young and old. “‘Betiful, ’ wh ’s msage of self-empowerment and dividualy was on track to bee an anthem for the LGBTQ+ muny, but after the vio me out and clud posive imag of gay and transgenr people, s distctn was guaranteed.

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Member Martha Wash has gone on to sg gay anthems wh Black Box, C&C Mic Factory, and her own solo Khan's song of female empowerment, later vered by Whney Hoton for 'The Bodyguard' soundtrack, has gone on to appeal to queer women and men due to s upliftg and posive lyrics about beg able do anythg you put your md to. ""Milly and lyrilly an homage to Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive, ' this song is sung om the perspective of Cher to a cheatg lover, but one uld easily terpret the lyrics to be about a reprsive society that she is no longer willg to tolerate.

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The Liverpool five-piece allowed the Midas touch of producer Trevor Horn to transform their urgent mo to a Hi-NRG supernova, offerg jt enough of a sniff of a thrillg gay subculture to potentially rpt the kids.

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Gettg ught ttagg a Los Angel public toilet isn’t the subtlt of ways to announce to the world you’re gay, but Gee Michael seized the moment and turned the tabloid sndal to somethg approachg a lculated masterstroke.

Bar the llaboratn wh MNDR on Swerlk, which was issued to memorate victims of the Orlando gay-club massacre of 2016, Let’s Have A Kiki signalled a lengthy hiat for the band, but we hope they’ll be back aga someday….

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Brgg the Pri story almost bang up to date, the 2019 eyebrow-raiser Juice somehow transcends the standard parameters of a gay anthem while riffg on s 80s funk spiratn (most fabuloly the pop-culture smasbord of s vio). Cher had always been a gay in (those spectacular Bob Mackie outfs created for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour – and the sp-off formats that followed – saw to that), but her forays onto the dancefloor were rare sce that brief flirtatn wh dis at the end of the 70s and hs like Take Me Home. Its stat as one of the bt LGBTQ+ Pri songs is tged wh sadns – arguably a last stand agast the backlash of homophobia that would secure dis’s first mise and add so much extra sufferg to the HIV/AIDS epimic, then jt around the rner.

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. Although only reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, was a number one h on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play, large part bee so many gay men loved the song — after all, was fun, sexy, danceable and mpy.

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For those unfaiar, the New York Cy ball scene was an LGBTQ subculture where different ho — mostly Black and Lat gay, bi, lbian and trans people — walked (or peted) for trophi tegori such as Face, Body, Butch Queen Realns, Femme Queen Realns, miscellaneo drag and Vogueg.

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But I’m sure Ru uldn’t have imaged that 27 years later, not only would his song still be played gay bars, but people all over the world, both LGBTQ and our alli, would still be sayg l om this song, thanks to their cln a realy show lled RuPl’s Drag Race. Out lead sger Tom Robson penned this punk/new wave anthem for the London gay pri para and has sce been nsired Bra’s natnal gay anthem, even though was at one pot banned by the BBC Rad 1 on their Top 40 Chart Show. The origal versn of the song discs Bra’s treatment of the LGBTQ muny, cludg nouncg police raids on gay bars, but there have sce been 10 versns of the song released, wh Robson updatg the lyrics to reflect what was gog on the LGBTQ muny at the time (i.

” Not only was that a ntroversial issue at the time — only six years after the Stonewall Rts, most straight people thought beg gay was a “choice” — but also was one of the first songs wrten for the LGBTQ muny.

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11p0k8m">{lor:#515150;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.0625rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.3125rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.3125rem;le-height:1.3;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#000000;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-11p0k8m exadjwu8"><p>Thanks Taylor Swift, but ... like, n you jt not?</p></div><style data-emotn="css b23776">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;marg-bottom:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}} 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article-body standard-body-ntent css-z6i669 ewisyje7"><style data-emotn="css 1pffubx">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;}{float:left;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;marg-right:0.9375rem;marg-bottom:-0.625rem;marg-top:0;}{font-fay:Glanz,Tim,Serif;font-size:6.25rem;font-weight:normal;le-height:0.75;marg-right:0;paddg:0.6rem 0.75rem 0 0;}@-moz-document url-prefix(){{marg-top:0.625rem;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){{marg-right:0.3125rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{le-height:0.75;}} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="body-dropp css-1pffubx et3p2gv0">Last night, <style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Taylor Swift gave a gift to her queer fan base" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Taylor Swift gave a gift to her queer fan base</a> the form of a summertime gay anthem lled “You Need To Calm Down,” and on behalf of a grateful muny, I mt say: <em>thank you, Taylor!</em> </p><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Also: <em>is there any chance you kept a receipt?</em> </p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Please unrstand: I appreciate the effort. Like God Herself, I love a trier. It is a thrillg and still somewhat new experience to be part of the textual narrative pop mic, and I am lighted for the young queer kid who’s hearg the song and feelg seen, supported and nourished for the first time. It’s important! And the song has already lodged self my ontal lobe and kicked both of those new Bon Iver songs out of their seats. Between “Calm Down,” Katy Perry's “Never Really Over,” and the whole new Carly Rae Jepsen album, the 2019 pop sound palette seems to be “<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the Fletch soundtrack" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">the Fletch soundtrack</a>,” and I am all the way here for . I will hear “Calm Down” at pool parti this summer, and I will sg along. It is nice. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="3" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1643r8a">{borr:none;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:0rem;}</style><asi class="css-1643r8a e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css m4kh8l">{display:le-block;font-weight:normal;marg:0rem;borr-top:0.25rem solid #15263D;paddg-right:1.1rem;paddg-top:0.4375rem;text-transform:lowerse;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.3;}</style><h6 class="css-m4kh8l e6pr2lz3"><style data-emotn="css 156fvc1">{borr-bottom:0.4375rem solid #FF3A30;borr-right:0.4375rem solid transparent;ntent:'';display:le-block;height:0;marg-right:0.5rem;width:0;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-156fvc1 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css uoc2ww">{font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:2rem;paddg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.9375rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{le-height:1.4;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;}</style><li class="css-uoc2ww e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/entertament/mic/a28034262/taylor-swift-you-need-to-lm-down-lgbtq-lyrics/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " tle="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But attemptg to wre a gay anthem 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awarens. 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The homophobia that is at the root of our culture ti young queers up knots that take s to untie. If “you will spend eterny Hell for your sexual orientatn,” or “God hat fags,” or even “don’t behave that way, son, you’re embarrassg me,” are exampl of sha, jt like a well-timed zger about a pair of pumps that don’t match a drs, sha has actually ma a lot of people a lot ls <em>alive</em>. It serv a more thoughtful analysis than a throwaway le your song about people beg mean to you on Twter, five sends before the le where you image me a gown. </p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">(Also, and now I’m jt beg npicky but I’m on a roll, “take <em>several</em> seats,” like “take wh a <em>huge</em> gra of salt,” explicly ntradicts the meang of the exprsn attempts to tensify. The are creepg to our vernacular unexamed, and mt stop here.)</p><style data-emotn="css 1u2hsbb">{posn:relative;paddg-bottom:56.25%;} .e1c5ygqq0{posn:absolute;top:0rem;left:0rem;width:100%;height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="iame" data-no-id="11" class="embed align-center css-1u2hsbb e1c5ygqq1"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om Third party. 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In , young pop sensatn ChaseDreams releas a song celebratg his brother’s homosexualy a way that is scere, supportive, and terrifygly unterproductive: “The way that he acts, the way that he talks, the way that he lghs and the way that he walks,” ChaseDreams sgs, and then jt when you (and his brother Cary, still so poorly self-actualized he’s settlg for blowg his straight roommate) are ready for him to stop, he ntu: “the way that he ns, how he mov his hands, he’s gay even when he jt ss or he stands.” Any gay person who spent their adolcence policg every word, step, giggle and gticulatn—which is every gay person—felt the burn. The very thgs you’re still stgglg to love about yourself, packaged and sold as a marketg gimmick for a straight person. Many a tth has been told jt. </p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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Brandi Carlile dropped on last year, and is suffed wh the ache of a lifetime of beg told you are a ltle b shameful at bt, and doomed at the worst. “You’re feelg nervo, aren’t you, boy? Wh your quiet voice and impecble style…I see you tuggg on your shirt, tryg to hi si of , hi how much hurts.” There is triumph the chos (“Let ‘em lgh while they n…I have been to the movi, and I see how ends: the joke’s on them”) and bee the vers lay out wh vastatg clary jt how much ls gay—and happy, and proud—sha mak a person, the triumph is earned. Can’t we jt do one good remix of “The Joke” and ll a day? </p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A gay anthem is absolutely still possible, but now that gay people are dog for themselv, whout direct reprentatn or d language, maybe the role of an ally is to take a seat (aga, <em>jt the one!</em>) and let them.</p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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But we are still at the dawn of a cultural era which queer people are able to tell their own stori. We only got Troye Sivan’s “Bloom,” our first mastream pop song about bottomg (unls you unt Toni Basil’s “Mickey”), ls than a year ago! It is an excg new time; let’s see what velops om for a moment before we shoehorn some self-servg allyship to a song about the pa of snake emojis a billnaire’s Twter mentns. </p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I am aware that I am beg both a queen <em>and</em> a drag. Also, I am wrg this on a ferry to Provcetown where I am stg across om a du a GAYS FOR TRUMP t-shirt, so I know there are bigger fish to y. 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