From Lady Gaga and Christa Aguilera, to Elton John and Gloria Gaynor, we rank the 50 most spiratnal LGBTQ+ songs to uplift the queer muny
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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
* best gay songs 2018 *
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The Kks – Lola (1970)Ray Davi’s empathetic, and acceptg, story of a cross-drser proved so pellg, beme a top 10 smash, even an fely more homophobic time. Photograph: PAJt as Stt McKenzie’s San Francis (Be Sure to Wear Flowers Your Hair) lured hippi wt 1967, this Village People classic functned as a wele mat for gay people at the muny’s adopted homeland by the bay.
55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
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. * best gay songs 2018 *
Elton John – Elton’s Song (1979)At the mercial nadir of his reer – five years after he me out as bisexual and more than a before he e out as a gay man – Elton released the most poignant queer song of his reer. Pete Townshend – Rough Boys (1980)Townshend’s randy song, which ught him longg to “be and kiss” a rough tra punk, exposed the homoeroticism that unrli so much rock’n’roll. Nirvana – All Apologi (1993)As the top rock star of his day, took real balls for Kurt Coba to assert that “everyone is gay” this semal Nirvana song.
Get ready to celebrate wh our list of gay anthems to stir the heart and move the hips. Happy Pri, everyone! * best gay songs 2018 *
Perfume Geni – Queen (2014)Wh nsummate subversn, Perfume Geni turned si out the antique image of gay people as vampir lurkg the shadows ready to strike the nocent.
Troye Sivan – Bloom (2018)Though gay pop stars started publicly announcg their sexual inty signifint numbers the 90s, would take another two s before some would make the genr they sire explic their lyrics. In the 1920s and early ’30s, Prohibn’s end gave way to the “Pansy Craze”: baret drag performanc that brought gay nightlife to the mass and rried their athetics to mastream mil theater.