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JOE JACKSON ASKS JERRY LEIBER AND MIKE STOLLER, "SO GUYS, IS JAILHOE ROCK A GAY LOVE SONG?" AND THEY THEY TALK ABOUT ELVIS AND HOUND DOG.
This article will emphasise rock and roll songs wh a gay, bisexual, lbian, transgenr, androgyno, or crossdrsg theme. Some of the songs were nsired que progrsive durg the time they were released, when homosexualy was nsired a mental illns and crossdrsg was illegal. The song’s lyrics, which referenced homosexualy, were changed, to f to the nformist 50s mastream culture.
The reference to gay romance is found the lyric: “Number 47 said to Number 3, ‘You’re the cutt jailbird I ever did see.
There’s no implitn that straight people n turn gay or anythg (even then, ’s ol to experiment and sexualy is fluid). Mad About The Boy – Dah Washgton – Origally wrten by Noël Coward 1932 for mil revue Words and Mic, the song has a hidn gay meang. The msage behd this versn is that cema un all, and you n maybe even extend that to beg acceptg of other people, that gay or straight, we’re really not that different after all.