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• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• RANDY RABOW WON’T STOP SAYG ‘GAY’ TO FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS NEW PARODY: WATCH
• GAY MIC
• MASHROU' LEILA: THE LEBANE DIE BAND CHAMPNG ARAB GAY RIGHTS
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

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. #20Gayteen reached s peak when the steamy, fan service-y “What I Need” dropped.

Atralia is s gay era: a time when all the arne and uy machatns of the untry une to discharge a torrent of queerns upon the world.

Jt sayg — Mch Feltscheer (@mchfel) July 13, 2023The cleart harbger of this era is the double whammy of gay pop that Atralia has produced recent months.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

It is pure gay smut: a paean to poppers spired, per his own admissn, by the sweaty clubs of Melbourne’s Smh Street. It is, perhaps, the bt fence of twk Rh is merely a chaser to that other tentpole of gay Atraliana: Kylie Mogue, whose sgle Padam Padam skyrocketed to the top 10 of the UK charts last month and has (mostly) stayed there sce. But hear me out: this current era is by far Atralia’s gayt.

RANDY RABOW WON’T STOP SAYG ‘GAY’ TO FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS NEW PARODY: WATCH

)Sce Bartlett, the gay Atralian agenda has been full swg. How lucky we are to be livg through the entire spectm of queer all, evably, serv as a precursor to Sydney WorldPri – that 17-day party earlier this year rponsible for the stctn of every gay person’s sleepg habs.

This current gay era may live and die, but Progrs Shark is forever.

Image: Time Out/D-Free/ShutterstockMove your hips wh the sential gay songs, om unfettable LGBTQ+ anthems to poignant ballads explorg queer lifeThirty days of summer is a pretty paltry amount of time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ muny. And while we’d never balk at an exce to celebrate everythg that Pri stands for, we also believe that any time is the perfect time to crank up the gay songs and let the rabow flag fly. RECOMMENDED:?  The bt party songs ever ma?  The bt karaoke songs?  The bt pop songs of all time?  The bt classic rock songs?  The bt happy songsBt gay songs, rankedImage: Polydor1.

GAY MIC

‘I Will Survive’ by Gloria GaynorIt starts off slowly, shroud fear; then the beat kicks , the song builds nfince, and by the end, now backed by a strg sectn, ’s a full-bore dis anthem of self-assurance. On s betiful face, Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’ is about a woman gettg over the guy who done her wrong; but 1978, as gay liberatn was gatherg steam heated nightclubs around the world, also played like a claratn of hard-won pri (‘I ed to cry / But now I hold my head up high’) and pennce om the hetero norm (‘I’m not that chaed-up ltle person still love wh you’).

Rerd at the height of Ameri's AIDS crisis and spired by New York’s unrground gay ball scene (famoly documented the 1991 film Paris Is Burng), Madonna’s ep-hoe–flected 1990 smash mands you to leave the heavy stuff asi—if only for a few mut—and fd salvatn on the dance floor. Nearly a quarter of a century later, this classic track om one of the most beloved gay ins of all time sounds no ls imperative. Chic’s Nile Rodgers was spired to wre this funky 1980 gem for Diana Ross after seeg multiple drag queens drsed as the inic sger at a gay dis New York.

Today, Ross still opens her shows wh ‘I'm Comg Out’, and the song remas a qutsential anthem of liberatn—gay or otherwise. ‘Over the Rabow’ by Judy GarlandFor generatns who grew up as ‘iends of Dorothy’, yearng to pe to a realm of Technilor urban fantasy, the tac gay natnal anthem was Garland’s wistful ballad om 1939’s The Wizard of Oz (wh a geo melody by Harold Arlen and touchg lyrics by social activist E.Y. But even now that so many closet doors have opened, ‘Over the Rabow’—and don’t you dare ll ‘Somewhere Over the Rabow’ lt someone threaten to revoke your gay rd—still spir pri and reverence.

MASHROU' LEILA: THE LEBANE DIE BAND CHAMPNG ARAB GAY RIGHTS

‘A Ltle Rpect’ by Erasure‘What relign or reason uld drive a man to forsake his lover?’ sgs Andy Bell on this stirrg synth-pop classic — a h for Brish duo Erasure 1988, and a perfect, piquant rponse to the Brish ernment’s outrageoly homophobic Sectn 28 legislatn.

Word is that at the time, Bell would troduce the song onstage sayg, ‘When I was a ltle girl, I asked my mummy, ‘Can I be gay when I grow up?’ She replied, ‘Y, if you show a ltle rpect.’’Image: Capol Rerds11. ‘Y.M.C.A.’ by Village PeopleFor any guy who’s ever wanted to be (or sleep wh) a wboy, p or leather-clad biker, the Village People reign supreme as gay-anthem chart toppers.

Along the way, the openly gay sisters stck a major blow for LGBTQ+ reprentatn mastream pop, which has steadily been improvg ever sce. ‘Go Wt’ by Pet Shop BoysWhen the Village People got all Horace Greeley 1979, was most likely a wk and a nod to the growg gay utopia of San Francis.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

‘It’s Rag Men’ by the Weather GirlsGay ins Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Cher and Barbra Streisand all turned down Pl Jabara and Pl Shaffer’s mpy posn before the Weather Girls snapped up 1982.