Macklemore & Lewis’ “Same Love” is more than a pro-gay marriage anthem

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MACKLEMORE & LEWIS’ “SAME LOVE” IS MORE THAN A PRO-GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM

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“Same Love,” a h sgle om Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, is the first Top 40 song to promote and celebrate gay marriage. * gay marriage anthem *

”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.

5 on the Rap Songs chart, where lyrics support of gay rights are almost unheard-of. ” F/Getty ImagSupport for gay rights is certaly not a new phenomenon pop mic.

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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. ”But Macklemore has offered up an overtly polil msage favor of gay marriage om the pot of view of a straight man.

“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.

Lewis released a vio for the song wh a rosy pictn of a gay marriage that polil anizers said helped fluenced the vote. The same month, Ellen DeGener, who is gay, ved the duo to perform the song on her show. 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.

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KDWB Mneapolis played the rerd the same week that Mnota approved gay marriage. The inic ‘70s rock band led by gay superstar Freddie Mercury may be forever remembered for Bohemian Rhapsody, but this sexy, propulsive tune — that gleefully swaps male and female pronouns — perfectly ptur the spir of Pri. This banned vio, set a gay leather bar, ptur the song’s lic bchery.

Forty-four years ago, Reed had a mastream h wh this hypnotic tale of gay and transgenr streetwalkers, spired by Andy Warhol’s darlgs of the unrground. After transng om Disney kid to pop prcs, Aguilera got ser and spiratnal wh this anthem (and explicly gay-iendly vio) support of everyone who’s ever felt different.

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The former Supreme allegedly rerd this jnty tune as a tribute to her legns of gay fans. Before officially g out as gay a 1998 Advote terview, the ternatnal pop star rerd this song, which telegraphed his stggl wh his artistic and personal inty. Out and proud before was remotely fashnable, the androgyno Sylvter created this dis anthem — which beme synonymo wh gay liberatn.

The gay liberatn ‘70s and the age of dis (which was born gay clubs) created a bumper crop of gay anthems. The greatt and gayt novelty act of all time produced nothg but tongue--cheek gay anthems. But the vio of this song, that’s been played for s at bar mzvahs, was filmed at New York’s most notor cisg grounds — makg s gay subtext perfectly clear.

From s irristible tro to s lir vols, this dis h om Swen’s greatt import has spired generatns of gay fans to cut loose on the dance floor.

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The gay in took the vogue-g tradn out of New York’s unrground gay and drag clubs and thst to the pop mastream — wng extra pots for sly shout-outs to glam ins of the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s. Never one to simply put out a tune, Mother Monster giv an epic sci-fi tro to this electric anthem of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and ethnic self-assertn and pri.