The Gay Essentials: The 75 Albums Every Gay Man NEEDS to Own - The WOW Report

Contents:

• MARV GAYE
• THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 75 ALBUMS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO OWN
• TOP 50 GAY ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
• GAYT ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME
• THE BT GAY ALBUM COVERS
• MARV GAYE ALBUMS RANKED
• MARV GAYE
• THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 75 ALBUMS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO OWN

MARV GAYE

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Gay Sgl (2009). As pri month heats up, we took upon the impossible task of roundg out the 20 most important albums to shape gay culture – an sential llectn of blockbter classics and subversive selectns alike. The Brish new wave four piece’s sophomore album is the group’s personal favore.

THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 75 ALBUMS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO OWN

In fact, two tracks om her sophomore album played pivotal rol recent queer entertament: RuPl’s Drag Race star Sasha Velour went on to snatch the season 10 crown followg a jaw-droppg lip sync to “So Emotnal” and Pose’s Jamal (played by Ryan Jamaal Swa) won hearts durg a dance school dn to the in’s mega-h “I Wanna Dance wh Somebody. Cher has spent an illtr reer pop reventg herself to the adoratn of the gays, and possibly never moro than her twenty-send stud album, Believe. This album’s smash-h tle track was one of the first popular tracks to e to-tune, which opened a sonic Pandora’s box unto the gay mic scene forever.

But given s benchmark as the bt-sellg pilatn album by a solo artist, The Immaculate Collectn is a mt for any gold star gay’s rerd llectn. On “Free Xone, ” she sgs of gay and lbian upl who are “ee to be who you really are” and her mega-h “Together Aga” rells a iend who died of plitns related to AIDS. A later, the rerd’s biggt triumphs, “Call Your Girliend” and “Dancg On My Own, ” are still regular rotatn at gay bars.

TOP 50 GAY ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

Mother Monster solidified her stat as a gay in wh this album.

GAYT ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME

Nk’s “Raise Your Glass” led the charts at the time, Gaga didn’t mce word about the dience the album’s tular anthem was tend for, sgg, “No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lbian, transgenred life / I’m on the right track, baby / I was born this way. While his sophomore output Bloom gaed more mercial succs, ’s his enchantg but that serv a spot every queer person’s talog. 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.

Buy the latt issue of Gay Tim. You are here: Home / Entertament / Celebs / The Gay Essentials: The 75 Albums Every Gay Man NEEDS to OwnA primer for lennials on the 75 mt-have albums they need to own, bee whether they want to believe or not, THERE ACTUALLY WAS MUSIC BEFORE BEYONCÉ. The are the GAY ESSENTIALS.

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It’s the mic that ptivated, spired, and fed generatns of gay men… before Gaga. It’s a syllab of required listeng that every gay man absolutely NEEDS to hear before he di. It’s Homo 101 on the WOW Report.

Like my prev list of the 50 Movi Every Gay Man Needs to Watch, the mic here is aimed at lennials and clus mostly pre-90s mic that I thk they really ought to be acquated wh. The 75 Albums every gay man NEEDS to own ( no particular orr, get your panti out of a bunch):. You aren’t really gay until you’ve done Judy at Carnegie Hall.

Loosely based on a story of a fictnal alien rock superstar named Ziggy Stardt, this album did more for generatns of sexually ambiguo eaks and outsirs than a ln gay pri paras. Lou Reed, Transformer: Dismissed by Rollg Stone when me out as “artsy-fartsy, sort of homo stuff, ” that’s exactly reason you’re gog to love .

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Songs like “Perfect Day, ” “Satelle of Love, ” “Andy’s Cht, ” and of urse “Walk on the Wild Si” still speak to today and rema important hallmarks of gay culture. T-Rex, The Slir: The masra’d bety of Marc Bolan upled wh over-the-top glam-rock power chords make this a mt-have album for every gay ck-rocker.

Blondie, Parallel L: See why gay men of a certa age still SWOON when they see a pic of legendary ontwoman Debbie Harry. Wh her batn of unrground gr and old-school glamour, she ma the ttosterone-heavy punk scene accsible to gay men. Suxsie & the Banshe, Hyaena: There is a whole generatn of gay men (myself clud) who openly weep at the those first chords of “Dear Pnce.

She’s the ultimate gay godss. And even though “I’m Comg Out” was a huge gay anthem, at the time straight people had NOT A CLUE that’s what was actually about.

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) ever, Grace has been the object of fetishistic worship by gay men sce the early ’70s. When you saw this album someone’s dorm room, YOU KNEW they were gay. Listeng to the songs was the VERY ESSENCE of the ’70s gay experience.

THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 75 ALBUMS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO OWN

Rocky Horror Picture Show: Lipsyncg along to “Sweet Transvte” and “Time Warp” alone your room is somethg all ltle gay boys should experience, don’t you thk? But ’s the ballads – “Sudnly Seymour” and the heartbreakg “Somewhere That’s Green” – that make this a mt-have for every gay man longg for Mr Right. Queen, Day at the Rac: Frontman Freddie Mercury’s bombastic, stadium-fillg gayns was one of those weird, unexplaable ’70s thg.

I gus was the power of the mic and the pury of Freddie’s voice that transcend sexual inty and brought gays and straights together. Bronski Beat, Age of Consent: Angsty gay boys to the dance floor please! Haircuts + polilly-charged gay anthems = Dance pop perfectn.