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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.