Ultimate Pri playlist: The 50 bt gay songs

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• WATCH USHER, LE EVANS RIFF ON MARV GAYE, AL GREEN SONGS ON ‘CORN’
• FRANIS EVANS & THE LONDON GAY SYMPHONY ORCHTRA
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
• WATCH USHER, LE EVANS RIFF ON MARV GAYE, AL GREEN SONGS ON ‘CORN’

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Usher, Le Evans and Jam Corn squared off a sexy vols riff-off on 'The Late Late Show, ' croong classics om Marv Gaye and Al Green. ” The Hard II Love sger fired back wh a breezy segment of Marv Gaye’s 1971 anthem “Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy), ” showg off his effortls falsetto. The Liverpool five-piece allowed the Midas touch of producer Trevor Horn to transform their urgent mo to a Hi-NRG supernova, offerg jt enough of a sniff of a thrillg gay subculture to potentially rpt the kids.

Easily one of the bt LGBTQ+ Pri songs of the 2000s, the gay sger’s send sgle shot to the top of the UK charts s send week and end up 2007’s third-biggt seller on the eve of the download era.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

Across much-loved stud albums, many sgl and an extensive TV reer – cludg -hostg the 2022 Eurovisn Song Contt – the BRIT Award-wner has creasgly ed his platform to speak up agast homophobia.

WATCH USHER, LE EVANS RIFF ON MARV GAYE, AL GREEN SONGS ON ‘CORN’

Declarg themself as non-bary 2019, this affectg ballad was lifted om their sophomore album, The Thrill Of It All. Confirmg his tentn for the tune to be regard as one of the bt LGBTQ+ Pri songs, John ntued, “It remd me of the film If…., by Ldsay Anrson – was very homoerotic. It was the first gay song that I actually rerd as a homosexual song.

The sger, who retired om performg 2021 but still rerds, ma her name the gay clubs and bars, and this was her breakout h. Gettg ught ttagg a Los Angel public toilet isn’t the subtlt of ways to announce to the world you’re gay, but Gee Michael seized the moment and turned the tabloid sndal to somethg approachg a lculated masterstroke.

“I thought Go Wt would su Neil [Tennant, sger]’s voice… a song about an ialistic gay utopia.

FRANIS EVANS & THE LONDON GAY SYMPHONY ORCHTRA

This glor “sad gay dis anthem” or “ultimate sad banger” is rated so highly, ma Rollg Stone magaze’s prtig 500 Greatt Songs Of All Time list 2021, wh a hugely imprsive No.

Let’s Have A Kiki, drawg on gay slang for gossip, was the third and last sgle om the group’s fal album to date, 2012’s Magic Hour. Bar the llaboratn wh MNDR on Swerlk, which was issued to memorate victims of the Orlando gay-club massacre of 2016, Let’s Have A Kiki signalled a lengthy hiat for the band, but we hope they’ll be back aga someday…. Released towards the end of 1992, crossed over om the gay club scene and spired a generatn of acts to “sashay, shantay” while “workg” to the left (and not fettg to turn to the right).

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Released September 1982, this melodic breakthrough was arguably the most subversive gay-themed rerd yet to top the UK charts, let alone break to the US Top 10 the followg year.

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

Havg set the gay (and mastream) club scene ablaze on s 1978 but, remas, to this day, a guaranteed floor-filler, and one of the bt Chaka Khan songs to boot. Brgg the Pri story almost bang up to date, the 2019 eyebrow-raiser Juice somehow transcends the standard parameters of a gay anthem while riffg on s 80s funk spiratn (most fabuloly the pop-culture smasbord of s vio). Hadreas says s lyrics were built around the issue of “gay panic” and the power that the victims of this sort of prejudice n sometim seize om gag unrstandg around that.

For thoands of gay men, Donna Summer was dis, and the throbbg club culture those men created nightclubs across the Wtern world was shaped by this, s earlit anthem. Montero (Call Me By Your Name) referenc all manner of gay sex slang and, if there’s any provotn, ’s entirely liberate. “I’ve had gay people thank me for the song many, many tim, ” the sger told The Guardian 2016.

A perennial entry among the bt LGBTQ+ Pri songs, ’s one of pop’s most subversive moments: gay fetish culture marketed to the mass on Top Of The Pops.

WATCH USHER, LE EVANS RIFF ON MARV GAYE, AL GREEN SONGS ON ‘CORN’

Emancipatn and release was central to much of the theme of gay inty the past, and this dis-soul rallyg cry almost ma to the top of the UK charts on the eve of 1976’s srchg summer.

Garland was adored by gay men, and a performance of this standout among the bt LGBTQ+ Pri songs was always the highlight of her legendary live shows.