Gay love songs where men sg about men, cludg tracks om Troye Sivan, MNEK and more.
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30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
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On “We All Try, ” the third track om his 2011 but mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA, he voiced support for gay marriage four years before beme legal natnwi:. The night the album dropped, Frank appeared on Late Night Wh Jimmy Fallon to but the song “Bad Relign, ” which ntas the most overt discsn of a gay relatnship on the album.
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IS FRANK OCEAN GAY?
Its genis is a ttament to the gay art of dredgg up fotten pop songs: Forever (Sailg)’s chos is lifted om You and I, a chtzy 70s pop track by the fotten Swedish diva Madleen Kane. Shaad D’SouzaDiana Ross – I’m Comg OutDiana Ross’s club-spired LGBTQ+ anthem – which attaed a send life as the lead sample for Notor BIG’s 1997 mega-h Mo Money Mo Problems – was, the words of s -wrer Nile Rodgers, meant to do for the gay muny what Jam Brown’s Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud did for the Black muny. Owen MyersFrank Ocean – Forrt GumpAfter years of refully d songs about gay love, whether be found or lost, one of the many thrills of Frank Ocean’s transcennt Channel Orange was his fearlsly mastream embrace of same-sex pronouns.
Benjam LeeSteely Dan – Rikki Don’t Lose That NumberMany of the bt-known gay songs exprs liberatn and stoke pri. But the sad tth is, the long history of gay people has far more often volved forced reprsn and engraed shame.
In that spir, few songs have ptured the vert and nflicted nature many gay people experienced those years more vividly than Steely Dan’s 1974 smash Rikki Don’t Lose That Number. The off-kilter chords they repurposed for their piece reflect the gay mimon, while the song’s plex stcture mirrors the nse system of s and clu that, at the time, fed our liv.