55 Bt Gay Songs of All Time (LGBTQ+ Pri Songs)

Contents:

• MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS
• STARS ALIGN FOR A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM
• HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)

MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS

The MTV Vio Mic Awards wasn’t all about Miley Cys’ jaw-droppg one of the more poignant moments of the eveng, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ gay rights anthem “Same Love” won the award for “Bt Vio wh a Social Msage” at Sunday’s MTV Vio Mic Awards Brooklyn. Macklemore told The New York Tim he posed the song March 2012 after readg an article about a bullied gay teenager who mted suici. The vio lls out other hip-hop artists for g gay slurs and relig lears for refg to support marriage of today, the vio has more than 70 ln hs on YouTube alone.

”That is no small feat for a rap duo om Seattle whout a major-label ntract, but their sgle “Same Love” has the potential to be groundbreakg a different way: is the first song to explicly embrace and promote gay marriage that has ma to the Top 40, gay-rights advot and rad executiv said. “The fact that a song solely dited to the msage of marriage equaly is climbg the charts and quickly beg a popular song across the untry is a big al, ” said Charlie Jough, a spokman for the Human Rights Campaign, the largt gay rights anizatn.

”Rad programmers say “Same Love” seems to have ptured the natn’s mood, reflectg growg support among young adults for gay marriage pollg.

STARS ALIGN FOR A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” was a chart-toppg song 2011 that generally affirmed acceptance of homosexualy, and artists like Katy Perry, Fun and Kacey Mgrav have ma support for gay rights part of their public farther back, Melissa Etheridge, who is openly gay, sred Top 10 hs the 1990s wh songs about her lbian relatnships, “Come to My Wdow” and “I’m the Only One. “This is a song that has the most unequivol pro-equaly msage to ever be exprsed a major sgle, and ’s really reached a wi range of dienc, ” said Rich Ferraro, a spokman for GLAAD, a gay-right anizatn that tracks the song, Macklemore tak other rappers to task for g gay slurs, ti abive language to bullyg of gay teenagers and mocks relig lears for opposg gay marriage.

He said he thought the ephets routely heard rap mic might be partly to blame, and that nyg gay adults the right to marry might also ntribute to spair among gay teenagers. He also wanted to wre a song, he said, to support his two gay uncl and his gay godfather Seattle, all of whom are mted relatnships. The song had moved him, he said, and seemed timely bee a bill allowg gays to enter civil unns was up for a vote the Colorado Legislature.

After police nverged on the bar to arrt and harass the LGBTQ atten, as was ctomary, the patrons fought back, sparkg what would spire the gay liberatn movement. The rult was Gossip’s “Standg the Way of Control, ” an angry kiss-off to policians, homophob and anyone else who wanted to keep queer people down. While the song may not have the fiery energy of other prott songs, the lyrics directly ll out police btaly, homophobic vlence and the sistence that queer people are ls than human.

HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY

Instead of wrg a song wh thly veiled metaphors about relign, queerre ins Team Drch stead cid to opt for “Hate the Christian Right!, ” a fiery, scream-rock track lettg relig homophob know exactly where they uld stick their prayers. After police nverged on the bar to arrt and harass the LGBTQ atten, as was ctomary, many fought back, sparkg what would spire the gay liberatn movement. “This Hell” tak that famo assertn and throws back the fac of the homophob wieldg as their cudgel — if we’re all gog to Hell anyway, then we may as well enjoy the ri down.

” An explosn of bottled-up dignatn, the song se the sger-songwrg barrg his way through societal failur like homophobia, e equaly, police btaly, gun vlence, polil rptn and much more.

While the song may not have the fiery energy of other prott songs, the lyrics directly ll out police btaly, homophobic vlence and those who sist that queer people are ls than human.

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

The rult was Gossip’s “Standg In the Way of Control, ” an angry kiss-off to policians, homophob and anyone else who wanted to keep queer people down. 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. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era.

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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. 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.

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