From the glam-punk of Handbag to the ultra-mp Steve Elg, award-wng gay mic historian Darryl W Bullock picks out ep cuts to play at this year’s Pri celebratns
Contents:
- 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
- CMT STAR CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: 'YOU CAN FD THE KD OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPS THIS LIFE YOU DERVE'
- GAY ROCKERS ELTON MOTELLO’S QUEER H SGLE WAS TAKEN AND STRAIGHTWASHED FOR THE MASS
- CMT HOST CODY ALAN: WHY I CAME OUT AS GAY
- CODY ALAN ON WRG THE BOOK ON BEG GAY COUNTRY
- MIC: CODY ALAN SPEAKS ABOUT BEG GAY AND THE MORMON CHURCH
- THE BOYS THE BAND: WHAT WAS ALAN'S SECRET (IS HE GAY)?
- A GAY SONGEVERYONE INVOLVED (BAND)TRACK 1 ON STRONG LOVE - SONGS OF GAY LIBERATN 1972-81 19721 VIEWER2 CONTRIBUTORSA GAY SONG LYRICSLISTEN TO ME SISTER, AND EVERY BROTHER TOOTHIS SONG NTAS A MSAGE AND MIGHT APPLY TO YOUTHERE IS A LTLE B OF GAY EVERYONE TODAYSO WHY NOT LET OUT?THAT'S WHAT WE SAYGAY IS NATURAL, GAY IS GOOD, GAY IS WONRFULGAY PEOPLE SHOULD ALL E TOGETHER AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSLISTEN TO ME PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DOTHE THG THAT REALLY UNTS LIFE ISTO YOURSELF BE TETHERE IS A LTLE B OF GAY EVERYONE TODAYSO WHY NOT LET OUT?THAT'S WHAT WE SAYGAY IS NATURAL, GAY IS GOOD, GAY IS WONRFULGAY PеOPLE SHOULD ALL E TOGETHеR AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSGAY IS NATURALGAY IS GOODGAY IS WONRFULGAY PEOPLE SHOULDALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
- THE TOUCHG TRIBUTE BEHD DISNEY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
- SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
Gay love songs where men sg about men, cludg tracks om Troye Sivan, MNEK and more. * alan is gay song *
30 Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men. From steamy dance tracks to tenr pop ballads, gay love songs e all shap and siz. Wh so many gay love songs to choose om, Billboard cid to offer some help.
CMT STAR CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: 'YOU CAN FD THE KD OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPS THIS LIFE YOU DERVE'
* alan is gay song *
Below, we list out 30 of our favore gay love songs — specifilly which men sg about lovg men — rangg om sensual dance bangers to tenr pop ballads. The lyrics to Brockhampton’s electrifyg mic has never shied away om ontman Kev Abstract’s gayns.
” The track’s mandg melody perfectly ntrasts the head-over-heels emotn they portray through the lyrics, makg this a fun, strange trip through gay romance. ” The Brish star’s track employs his exuberant sexualy, a hard-htg beat and expertly-crafted melodi to make this one of the sexit songs about gay romance recent memory. K-pop stars don’t ually get opportuni to exprs their same-sex love thanks to Korea’s rigid anti-gay polici.
But pop sger Holland fied expectatns wh his release of “Neverland, ” one of the first K-pop songs wh openly gay nnotatns. But by the song’s send verse, the duo’s openly gay member, Chad Kg, chim to show that exact same sentiment to a boy, th showg once aga that pronouns matter when to penng a queer love song. Chartg the overtly queer story of two gay wboys makg off to the night, the song is as joyful as is almost hntg.
GAY ROCKERS ELTON MOTELLO’S QUEER H SGLE WAS TAKEN AND STRAIGHTWASHED FOR THE MASS
CMT host Cody Alan discs g out as gay the untry mic muny. * alan is gay song *
The Gay Liberatn Front had been anisg diss and danc for 18 months prr to the march, and 1, 200 people scend on Kensgton town hall shortly before Christmas 1970 for Bra’s first publicly advertised gay dis, fillg the place to pacy, wh 500 revellers turned away at the door.
CMT HOST CODY ALAN: WHY I CAME OUT AS GAY
Wh the Country Mic Awards now behd , we have seen a lot of love and affectn g om some of our favore untry mic stars, and CMT host, Cody Alan, is one of them. He recently released his new memoir lled Hear's the Thg. In the book, he talks about how his fah has changed and how his fay reacted when he me out to them as gay 2017. * alan is gay song *
There were no LGBTQ+ bands, and no artists makg rerds for LGBTQ+ people; at least most of the acts playg those early danc – cludg David Bowie, Hawkwd and Pk Fairi – were sympathetic to the e of gay liberatn, but the discs beg spun were the same on you would hear the ntemporary sgl would soon change, and as annual Pri events began to spread across the untry, artists and songwrers spired by the gay liberatn movement began to make mic specifilly for LGBTQ+ dienc. Everyone Involved – A Gay Song (1972)It’s a toss-up as to what would be the world’s first gay liberatn rerd: many would argue that Stone Wall Natn by Male Davis, wrten March 1971, predat the UK release A Gay Song, first performed that year.
CODY ALAN ON WRG THE BOOK ON BEG GAY COUNTRY
A Gay Song Lyrics: Listen to me sister, and every brother too / This song ntas a msage and might apply to you / There is a ltle b of gay everyone today / So why not let out? / That * alan is gay song *
But wh lyrics by Gay Liberatn Front activist Alan Wakeman, A Gay Song is the first rerdg by a Brish act to explicly addrs the LGBTQ+ muny a posive appeared on the album Eher/Or by a llective known as Everyone Involved, and featured volunteers om the GLF on vols. Coverg them such as elogy, world peace and ee love a rog folk-rock arrangement, Eher/Or also clud a send gay-themed song, A Sad Song, sung by Gillian Dickson of folk quartet the Solid Brish Hat Band. “Alan and I were always keen to make our songs reflect somethg of our personali and we liked the tle Do You Like Boys, which uld appeal equally to gays as well as girls.
MIC: CODY ALAN SPEAKS ABOUT BEG GAY AND THE MORMON CHURCH
How the tragic ath of a pneerg gay artist may have shaped the story of the new Bety and the Beast. * alan is gay song *
”Acrdg to Briley, “to promote this song we were flown to Germany on a tour of what turned out to be gay diss”; Gay News highlighted s “potential to bee a dis favoure”.
Post-Starbuck, Briley and Engle appeared on the soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Briley has wrten songs for dozens of artists cludg Monkee Peter Tork, Céle Dn, ‘NSync and Pat Elg – Don’t Leave Your Lover Lyg Around (Dear) (1974)As mp as a pantomime dame, drippg nuendo and plete wh pub piano and a chos of A’t She Sweet, this sgle sparked ntroversy: Elg’s team suggted that the BBC had dropped plans to feature Don’t Leave Your Lover Lyg Around (Dear) as rerd of the week on the David Haton show bee of the obvly gay lyrics, leadg his manager to veigle his way to Broadstg Hoe and p pi of Gay News on noticeboards throughout the buildg. Dpe his efforts, the sgle was a flop, and no rerd that told a story om an LGBTQ+ pot of view would bother the Brish charts until 1978 – (Sg If You’re) Glad to be Gay by the Tom Robson band, which charted (as part of the Risg Free EP) Febary 1978, reachg number 18.
Valento – I Was Born This Way (1975)Outsi members-only clubs, pub backrooms and the ocsnal gay-iendly dner-and-dance venue, there were no permanent gay diss Bra until Bang! It was the only 45 issued on Gaiee rerds, found by the song’s -thor Bunny Jon, a bety salon owner wh several gay employe. “I named the label Gaiee bee I wanted to give gay people a label they n ll home, ” she once said.
THE BOYS THE BAND: WHAT WAS ALAN'S SECRET (IS HE GAY)?
Advertised as “the first gay dis sgle”, Billboard magaze noted that “feelgs on the disc are mixed, as some thk is offensive; others feel is a great cut. Valento himself told Gay News: “It’s jt mic wh a msage.
I’m not forcg anyone to turn gay and the same way no one is tryg to turn me straight. Handbag – Jt Raped (1977)Almost a before Bronski Beat, Handbag were the first out gay tr Bra to w a rerdg ntract, when, 1975, David Arn – son of notor hardman mic mogul Don Arn and brother of Sharon Osbourne – signed them to Jet Rerds, home to ELO and Ozzy Osbourne. The band were for a rough ri: that year a gig wh lbian band the Stepney Sisters was abandoned followg a bomb sre, and the much-vnted album rerd for Jet was never issued, but they did get to wre and perform the soundtrack to documentary film David is 1977 the group laid down mos for a send album, songs wh a heavier edge such as the punk-fluenced live favoure Jt Raped, and soon after they were headlg a weekly gay night at legendary London punk venue the Roxy.
A GAY SONGEVERYONE INVOLVED (BAND)TRACK 1 ON STRONG LOVE - SONGS OF GAY LIBERATN 1972-81 19721 VIEWER2 CONTRIBUTORSA GAY SONG LYRICSLISTEN TO ME SISTER, AND EVERY BROTHER TOOTHIS SONG NTAS A MSAGE AND MIGHT APPLY TO YOUTHERE IS A LTLE B OF GAY EVERYONE TODAYSO WHY NOT LET OUT?THAT'S WHAT WE SAYGAY IS NATURAL, GAY IS GOOD, GAY IS WONRFULGAY PEOPLE SHOULD ALL E TOGETHER AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSLISTEN TO ME PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DOTHE THG THAT REALLY UNTS LIFE ISTO YOURSELF BE TETHERE IS A LTLE B OF GAY EVERYONE TODAYSO WHY NOT LET OUT?THAT'S WHAT WE SAYGAY IS NATURAL, GAY IS GOOD, GAY IS WONRFULGAY PеOPLE SHOULD ALL E TOGETHеR AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSGAY IS NATURALGAY IS GOODGAY IS WONRFULGAY PEOPLE SHOULDALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS(WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER PEOPLE AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS)ALL E TOGETHERAND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTSYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
The gay, lbian and femist movements were takg off, and our polics and mic beme extribly lked. CMT Star Cody Alan Com Out as Gay: 'You Can Fd the Kd of Love, Peace and Happs This Life You Derve'.
But for years, the seemgly happy-go-lucky CMT and iHeartRad host suffered an inty crisis, holdg onto a secret he’s fally ready to share — that he’s gay. You see, I’m gay. “To their generatn, beg gay is like your eye lor — ’s jt there — so they unrstood better than I thought.
“I remember thkg how proud I was of both of them — how much urage that took for each of them to say they were gay and to share their liv wh the world, ” Alan says. By sharg his story, Cody is helpg listeners and fans get to know someone who shar their passn for untry mic and southern valu, and who also happens to be gay. The song’s lyrics are mostly nonsense — and the fact that the origal gay versn of the song is totally fotten?
THE TOUCHG TRIBUTE BEHD DISNEY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
While a song 1977 beg ank about a gay relatnship is surprisg, what’s even more shockg is the explic lyrics. Oddly enough, spe his nickname and band name, none of the Pk Fairi were gay, but they were alli. The album picted the gay experience late ’70s Europe, and actually got some airplay Europe.
SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
Unfortunately, the Uned Kgdom and Ameri didn’t play the rerd due to the lyril ntent — but did get them a huge gay followg.
The label told Elton Motello they were very popular the New York gay scene.
CMT Host Cody Alan: Why I Came Out as Gay. Cody Alan, host of CMT’s Hot 20 Countdown and producer of iHeartRad’s CMT After Midne and CMT Rad Live, publicly me out as gay today wh a heartfelt Instagram post directed at fans and followers.