25 Essential Gay Pri Songs: Rollg Stone Edor Picks – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!
• 18 NCN QUE SE NVIRTIERON EN HIMNOS GAY
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• THE TOP 10 GAY ANTHEMS OF THE PAST 5 YEARS
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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.

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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

“A DJ told her [the song] was gog to her reer – people would thk she was gay, ” Rodgers said. The lyrics e om the out-and-proud Brish punk rocker Tom Robson, who had a h of his own wh “Glad to be Gay. 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.

HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!

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. Ontman had long been a whe-hot sex symbol, role mol and trendsetter for gay men and other LGBTQ dividuals across the world.

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. It’s difficult to pick one song that f them – wh songs like “Dick of Death, ” “Groovy Unrwear” or their classic ver of Prce’s “Jack You Off” – but we went wh one that seems to fy the ia of a gay “anthem” no matter how you thk of . We’re not jt gay and micians, ” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.

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18 NCN QUE SE NVIRTIERON EN HIMNOS GAY

Ltle did she know that her wgirl blu would not only w her the Grammy for Bt Female Rock Vol Performance but would also yield an empowerg theme for the gay muny. As both voutly straight edge and proudly homosexual, their substance-ee stance ma them stand out a time when bars, clubs and other toxitg spac prised the few safe havens for LGBTQ people.

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

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” Although only a actn of the band’s succs Europe translated to the Uned Stat, “Take Your Mama” remas a staple gay bars across the untry. Butler later told The New York Tim that “Bld” relled “growg up a gay kid, my immediate fay and social group rejectg me, and askg why I was born to this suatn. The tr would later make headl after the 2014 Grammy Awards, where their landmark performance of the song would soundtrack a mass weddg between 33 gay and straight upl.

THE TOP 10 GAY ANTHEMS OF THE PAST 5 YEARS

” Sgg “No fay is safe when I sashay, ” he slks to a nference room and gyrat his hips for a room full of sus – a sly riposte to the legns of homophob who weaponize their fears agast LGBTQ people, om wh board rooms, Congrs, or out on the streets. But when Orville Peck’s myster barone follows the twangy guar to “My mama told me when I was young/ We are all born superstars, ” brgs the gay anthem to another level.

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

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