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Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• LOVE IS A DRAG: THE STORY BEHD THE GROUNDBREAKG SECRET 60S GAY ALBUM
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Our mic is no different — even the Wikipedia entry for the phrase “gay anthem” not how LGBTQ artists revel the them of “perseverance, ner strength, acceptance, pri, and uny. So when me time to put together her sophomore album, In Defense of My Own Happs, Vol.

That’s the power of the honey-voiced star’s sophomore album, which unvers what blossoms a relatnship (and what stroys ). The gay yeehaw agenda is alive and well 2022. Shamir ma a bold statement about his unapologetic gay agenda wh his eighth stud album.

LOVE IS A DRAG: THE STORY BEHD THE GROUNDBREAKG SECRET 60S GAY ALBUM

“Relax, ” particular, was a glorly unlikely chart-topper — was all too much for the BBC, but the fact that was banned by the Beeb didn’t hurt s populary, and as far as smugglg a song about gay culture ( this se sex) to the mastream go, was right up there wh Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Si.

Le1f — Dark York mixtapeLe1f himself seems as tired of the “gay rap” label as anyone else. You n see his pot — his mic is ace, and certaly warrants regnn regardls of his sexualy — but sadly, the fact that openly gay rappers are still very th on the ground the days means that anyone buckg the trend is likely to ntue to attract both tert and Majty — Futuristilly SpeakgBeyond the open secret that was Queen Latifah’s sexualy, gay female rappers have also been relatively hard to fd. Thaemlz him/herself intifi as pansexual and transgenr, and has a great al of fascatg stuff to say about inty polics, genr, and and the Johnsons — I Am a Bird NowAntony’s background li radil gay performance art and theatre, all of which plays to his strikgly sad and betiful but album.

Scissor Sisters — Scissor SistersThe qutsential ’00s party album and a wdow straight to NYC’s gay nightlife of the era. Jake Shears, et al, are fantastic pop songwrers, but ccially, they’re not jt that — there’s real emotnal ronance to this album, pecially “Mary” (Shears’ logy to his ad bt iend) and closg track “Return to Oz, ” a strikg portra of how New York’s gay muny has been affected by crystal meth — The Marriage of Te MdsAn album tle that also provis a neat and rather touchg summatn of the relatnship between s creators, who are a uple and have been makg fascatg, cerebral electronic mic together for more than a . Hüsker Dü — Zen ArIt seems strange to clu Hüsker Dü here bee their mic was so genr-ntral — the band steadfastly ma no acknowledgement at all of the fact that Bob Mould was gay and Grant Hart was bisexual, perhaps bee the two were too by hatg one another to worry about anythg else.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

” It was the soundtrack to many a ’90s teen’s self-qutng, somethg not exactly disuraged by Brett Anrson and his “I’m a bisexual man who’s never had a homosexual experience” Divisn — That’s So GayFor all s mythology of unnstraed self-exprsn, the ultra-macho world of punk hasn’t always been super gay-iendly, which perhaps explas the emergence of queerre as s own genre. You uld choose many exampl om s lumari and/or lser lights for this list (I’m particularly partial to largely unherald Atralian band Anal Traffic, who are ungoogleable for obv reasons), and the origal hardre-centric scene has created all manner of offshoots, cludg…Hunx and His Punx — Gay SglSexualy be damned, the important qutn is: do you like rock ‘n’ roll?!

Etheridge me out 1993, and the tle of this album seems to be an alln to her Ocean — Channel OrangeIt might seem an obv choice, but “Thkg About You” — along wh Ocean’s public discsn of his bisexualy — still felt dramatic and newsworthy, a fact that perhaps says more about our society than about the sger — Standg the Way of ControlThe tle track is one of the great gay rights anthems of our time, wrten rponse to the proposed Feral Marriage Amendment to the US Constutn, which would have outlawed gay marriage throughout the USA — but the rt of the album’s pretty good, — You Thk It’s Like This, But Really It’s Like ThisMirah’s later albums have explored progrsively darker terrory, but this 2000 but is full of songs both unadorned and quietly betiful, songs that explore the joys and pfalls of love wh a strikg ankns and a perceptive lyril and the Angry Inch (Origal Cast Rerdg)A mil about a transgenr East Berler who fle the GDR after a botched sex change operatn and go on to bee a flamboyant, if unr-appreciated, rock star? It was certaly my first troductn to the ia that genr was a spectm rather than a simple male/female bary, and I’m sure I’m not — The Story So FarSee also: Dive, who was even more flamboyant than Boy Gee and whose mil reer remas an overlooked B — I’m Gay (I’m Happy)He’s not, of urse.

There are echo of Frank Ocean – maly bee they share producer Michael Uzowu – the heart and soul of Amerin Boyiend is uniquely Kev’s as he navigat his inty as a young gay man of lour. While sophomore album Bloom is shapg up to be a superr follow-up, the impact of Blue Neighbourhood n’t be unrstated.

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