Bt Gay Love Songs: Queer Valente’s Day Playlist – Billboard

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
• LISTEN: THE 25 BT (AND GAYT) ORIGAL SONGS OM MOVI
• INDIE GAY MIC
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE WORLD PRI

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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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. gay clubs but, wh a strg of hs, expand to natnal tours and TV. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era.

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

Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi . Rodgers later told the Mail on Sunday that they wrote the track “bee of her gay followg, ” but fibbed a ltle to a sktish Ross. “A DJ told her [the song] was gog to her reer – people would thk she was gay, ” Rodgers said.

It’s a quiet piano ballad about growg up gay. 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.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

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.

The gay teens and tweens, most of them closeted, fely did. “Beg gay and open about is my substance.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

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 . “One thg that we have is that we’ve always sung about beg gay. We’re not jt gay and micians, ” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.

“We have sung about beg gay as a part of the topic wh our songs.

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

I thk, over time, some of them are ls specifilly gay than they were at first bee seemed like, when we had the chance that was really what we wanted to sg about and that was really unique. 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.

“The gay muny lifted me up and supported me.

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. When I me to the pot where I was actively gay took a b of time to get fortable and e out but I felt ready for whatever me my way. ” 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.

LISTEN: THE 25 BT (AND GAYT) ORIGAL SONGS OM MOVI

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. ” 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.

The LGBTQ muny has been exprsg self mic sce the days of unrground gay clubs.

INDIE GAY MIC

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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE WORLD PRI

“Queen” is an 80s-spired, tongue--cheek gay anthem.

It pok fun at the homophobic argument that the LGBTQ muny is threateng tradnal fay valu, pecially the le “No fay is safe, When I sashay. ” The lyrics are perhaps a nod to San Francis, which was known as a safe haven for gays and lbians at the time. Her song “People Like Us” is a popular gay anthem wh l that seem to enurage g out and beg te to yourself.

It probably has somethg to do wh the e of the word “queen, ” which many gay men unapologetilly adopted for themselv. When the song was released 1976, beme an stant h gay bars and clubs. This tune don’t shy away om the ntent, tellg the story of a boy om a small town who fle to pe homophobia and abe.