HAPPY PRIDE! How “Y.M.C.A.” Beme a Gay Anthem! | Now See Hear!

Contents:

• HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!
• IS Y.M.C.A. REALLY A GAY SONG? THE MEANG OF THE LYRICS
• BT GAY ANTHEMS 2023: LGBTQ PRI SONGS PLAYLIST
• THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"
• THE ARE THE 20 MOST IMPORTANT GAY ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME

HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!

” Though, today, you’ll hear the track at everythg om a school dance to a 50th anniversary party, has also been adopted by the gay muny as one of s unofficial anthems. The songs targeted a niche rerd buyg dience: gay disthequ and their patrons. The tl were self-explanatory: “Fire Island” (the East Coast’s gay summer retreat); “San Francis (You’ve Got Me)” (the Wt ast’s premier gay statn); “Village People” (a look at the habants of New York Cy’s largely gay Greenwich Village); and “In Hollywood (Everybody is a Star), ” the promise of artistic acplishment the word’s entertament pal.

Village People nsisted of six members, each of whom personified a popular gay archetype. Only Willis and Rose participated on the “Village People” LP–wh Rose roly creded as “Felipe ‘Indian From the Anvil’“ (the Anvil was a gay NYC sex club). The gay msagg their songs, the gay fantasy stripper-stum, the gay dancg and fx macho posturg seemed to go over the heads of the dience–or they jt didn’t re.

IS Y.M.C.A. REALLY A GAY SONG? THE MEANG OF THE LYRICS

“Key Wt” (a gay rort statn), “Jt a Gigolo, ” “I Am What I Am” (a gay claratn), and “Sodom and Gomorrah” reached their re dience–but the sgle “Macho Man” reached further.

BT GAY ANTHEMS 2023: LGBTQ PRI SONGS PLAYLIST

An energetic chant song whose lyrics extoled the male form, exercise and gym culture, “Macho Man” was heard by straight dienc as ls gay and more sports/athletics/ol-du fun mic. Neteen seventy-ne’s double entendre-tled “Cs’” (referencg gay cisg) h stor jt seven months after “Macho Man. ” was not a “gay” song, but “a song for everyone.

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

Addnally, lyrics like “lger on the siwalk where the neon signs are pretty” and “someone who is jt like you and needs a gentle hand to gui them along” were tac vatns for a gay listeng dience. ” was more than a h rerd, was a cultural tone: a world anthem built on, for, and about gay life and sensibili that was, neverthels, fully embraced by mastream dienc. The latt episo of Billboard Explas div to what mak a gay pri anthem, and discs the hs that have ntributed to the LGBTQ+ muny over the years.

Members of the LGBTQ+ muny have a vast soundtrack of songs at their disposal to play every year when Pri Month around, but what exactly mak a songs a gay pri anthem? Much like the LGBTQ+ muny self, gay pri anthems are credibly diverse and span a variety of genr and are performed by a range of micians who spire the urage to be your most thentic self.

One of the earlit hs emblematic of gay pri was Judy Garland‘s “Somewhere Over the Rabow. Of urse, morn-day divas like Mariah Carey, Madonna, Brney Spears and Christa Aguilera are gay ins, but isn’t jt pop sgers who soundtrack Pri Month — even Disney movi like Ennto and Frozen provi spiratn, as unnventnal of a choice as may seem. 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.

THE ARE THE 20 MOST IMPORTANT GAY ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME

From the song’s openg synths and Jimmy Somerville’s unmistakable falsetto, “Smalltown Boy” marked a historic moment pop mic, pecially g om an openly gay group durg the peak of the AIDS crisis. Co-wrten by Tom Robson (who gave “Glad To Be Gay”), ’s one of the rare LGBTQ songs that chews the dancefloor for a more tenr moment.