From #20Gayteen MVPs Hayley Kiyoko and Troye Sivan, to LGBTQ alli like Ltle Mix and Avicii, a wi range of artists have stilled a new viraly and urgency to the form by celebratg the LGBTQ muny all of s bety.
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30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
Gay love songs where men sg about men, cludg tracks om Troye Sivan, MNEK and more. * that boy gay song *
Its genis is a ttament to the gay art of dredgg up fotten pop songs: Forever (Sailg)’s chos is lifted om You and I, a chtzy 70s pop track by the fotten Swedish diva Madleen Kane. Shaad D’SouzaDiana Ross – I’m Comg OutDiana Ross’s club-spired LGBTQ+ anthem – which attaed a send life as the lead sample for Notor BIG’s 1997 mega-h Mo Money Mo Problems – was, the words of s -wrer Nile Rodgers, meant to do for the gay muny what Jam Brown’s Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud did for the Black muny.
Owen MyersFrank Ocean – Forrt GumpAfter years of refully d songs about gay love, whether be found or lost, one of the many thrills of Frank Ocean’s transcennt Channel Orange was his fearlsly mastream embrace of same-sex pronouns. Benjam LeeSteely Dan – Rikki Don’t Lose That NumberMany of the bt-known gay songs exprs liberatn and stoke pri.
But the sad tth is, the long history of gay people has far more often volved forced reprsn and engraed shame. In that spir, few songs have ptured the vert and nflicted nature many gay people experienced those years more vividly than Steely Dan’s 1974 smash Rikki Don’t Lose That Number. The off-kilter chords they repurposed for their piece reflect the gay mimon, while the song’s plex stcture mirrors the nse system of s and clu that, at the time, fed our liv.
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. * that boy gay song *
Jim FarberMan on Man – It’s So Fun (To Be Gay)Boyiend and boyiend Joey Holman and Roddy Bottum, AKA the New York-based rock duo Man on Man, regnise the power keepg thgs simple. On their pla-speakg, glorly gay 2021 self-tled but they sg about their new love via both sweet serenas (Baby You’re My Everythg) and gntg, primal fantasi (Daddy), the latter’s tal of impromptu blow jobs acpanied by a vio featurg the two men kissg nothg but tighty whi.
) But ’s on this sweet lullaby that Holman and Bottum – two olr gay men wh nary a six-pack sight, workg a hyper-mascule genre – strip everythg back to honour and celebrate queer joy s simplt form.
For queer mic fans around the world, listeng to songs like for him, durg which Sivan is unapologetilly croong about gay love, were equal parts rehg and thartic.