50 Bt Gay Songs: LGBTQ+ Songs To Celebrate Pri All Year

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• 60 SONGS THAT WILL CLEAR OUT THE BATHROOM AT ANY GAY BAR
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today.

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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

“A DJ told her [the song] was gog to her reer – people would thk she was gay,” Rodgers said. The lyrics e om the out-and-proud Brish punk rocker Tom Robson, who had a h of his own wh “Glad to be Gay.” The payoff is the tenr moment at the end when Elton sgs, “I would give my life/For a sgle night bi you.” Maybe he sred himself wh how emotnal he uld be – was years before he tried anythg this revealg aga.

Much of Erasure’s disgraphy embodi not precisely celebratory gay pri but gay romantic realy – a ankns about the emotnal, if not overtly sexual, liv of gay men toward the end of the 20th century. So when out Brish duo Andy Bell and Vce Clarke’s plative yet buoyant sgle beme a worldwi h gay-uniendly 1988, felt quietly revolutnary to anyone the know. Ontman had long been a whe-hot sex symbol, role mol and trendsetter for gay men and other LGBTQ dividuals across the world.

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 .

60 SONGS THAT WILL CLEAR OUT THE BATHROOM AT ANY GAY BAR

We’re not jt gay and micians,” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.

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

As both voutly straight edge and proudly homosexual, their substance-ee stance ma them stand out a time when bars, clubs and other toxitg spac prised the few safe havens for LGBTQ people. When I me to the pot where I was actively gay took a b of time to get fortable and e out but I felt ready for whatever me my way.” –SE.

Bono ld them as “the bt pop group the world” that year, and Elton John would llaborate wh the band on their 2006 smash h “I Don’t Feel Like Danc’.” Although only a actn of the band’s succs Europe translated to the Uned Stat, “Take Your Mama” remas a staple gay bars across the untry. Butler later told The New York Tim that “Bld” relled “growg up a gay kid, my immediate fay and social group rejectg me, and askg why I was born to this suatn.

BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1

The tr would later make headl after the 2014 Grammy Awards, where their landmark performance of the song would soundtrack a mass weddg between 33 gay and straight upl.

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

Seattle’s Michael Hadreas transforms om young man to queer menace the sparklg vio for “Queen.” 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. Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D.

-led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972. Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee.