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Contents:

• BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1
• DIS DISCHARGE: GAY DIS & HI NRG
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• GAY MIC: HOE PARTY MIC (BT HOE GAY SONGS)

BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1

“Straight people were clumsy and had no rhythm, whereas gay men were right on. Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D.

-led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972.

DIS DISCHARGE: GAY DIS & HI NRG

Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee. “I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay, ” the sger hollers over soulful stmentatn.

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

” “The lyrics were perfect, ” she told me Summer, ‘I Feel Love’ (1977)Gay male dance crowds were drawn to rerdgs that featured Black female volists, often intifyg wh their emotnal exprsivens and strength the face of adversy, often to the surprise of the artists, who were ually gospel-traed. A pneerg reprentative, Gloria Gaynor was crowned the first queen of dis by gay D. Patrick Cowley, ‘Mutant Man’ (1982)Patrick Cowley fed his reputatn as one of the world’s most progrsive synthizer players durg rerdgs wh the dis pneer Sylvter, cludg “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), ” perhaps the ultimate gay male anthem.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 5 of the New York edn wh the headle: Sp Some Gay Dis.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

As explaed by Dis Discharge seri annotator Alan Jon, thor of Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Dis, there is no “real fable difference” between “jt dis” and “gay dis, ” though the latter’s mid to late-‘80s outgrowth, Hi-NRG, is easier to regnize through s quicker and heavier pulse, as well as s bold (often to the pot of searg) synthizer ns. On one hand, songs wh overtly gay narrativ, like Boys Town Gang's “Cis’ the Streets, ” are no-braers. On the other, gayns was no prerequise for makg gay dis; fact, three songs here were produced by Bobby O., a known homophobe (who, spe this, would later assist the Pet Shop Boys, the producers of Liza Mnelli's “Losg My Md, ” disc one’s closer).

GAY MIC: HOE PARTY MIC (BT HOE GAY SONGS)

And ’s not as if the material here was embraced exclively by the gay crowd. Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs. I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl!

If you have gay iends like me, brg them there, you will have the bt night out! There are plenty of gay bars up and down 9th ave and there's no reason to spend money at a place that will treat you like total trash, threaten you, and be unnecsarily belligerent and make you feel unsafe jt bee they're on some kd of power trip. 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.