55 Bt Gay Songs of All Time (LGBTQ+ Pri Songs)

Contents:

• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

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

On the Chigo rapper’s “Crayons, ” Cupkke tak a stand for her LGBTQ fans by spendg the whole track roastg any and every homophobe on earth. Syd’s sual same-sex e-ons were hard earned after a long tenure as the out queer reprentative of the gay slur-fatuated Odd Future llective, a stat that would later bee ironic: “I went through all of the terviews, and everybody was gay the whole time, ” she lghed  a 2018 Billboard terview. Image: Time Out/D-Free/ShutterstockMove your hips wh the sential gay songs, om unfettable LGBTQ+ anthems to poignant ballads explorg queer lifeThirty days of summer is a pretty paltry amount of time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ muny.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

And while we’d never balk at an exce to celebrate everythg that Pri stands for, we also believe that any time is the perfect time to crank up the gay songs and let the rabow flag fly. RECOMMENDED:?  The bt party songs ever ma?  The bt karaoke songs?  The bt pop songs of all time?  The bt classic rock songs?  The bt happy songsBt gay songs, rankedImage: Polydor1. ‘I Will Survive’ by Gloria GaynorIt starts off slowly, shroud fear; then the beat kicks , the song builds nfince, and by the end, now backed by a strg sectn, ’s a full-bore dis anthem of self-assurance.

On s betiful face, Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’ is about a woman gettg over the guy who done her wrong; but 1978, as gay liberatn was gatherg steam heated nightclubs around the world, also played like a claratn of hard-won pri (‘I ed to cry / But now I hold my head up high’) and pennce om the hetero norm (‘I’m not that chaed-up ltle person still love wh you’).

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

Rerd at the height of Ameri's AIDS crisis and spired by New York’s unrground gay ball scene (famoly documented the 1991 film Paris Is Burng), Madonna’s ep-hoe–flected 1990 smash mands you to leave the heavy stuff asi—if only for a few mut—and fd salvatn on the dance floor. Nearly a quarter of a century later, this classic track om one of the most beloved gay ins of all time sounds no ls imperative. Chic’s Nile Rodgers was spired to wre this funky 1980 gem for Diana Ross after seeg multiple drag queens drsed as the inic sger at a gay dis New York.

Today, Ross still opens her shows wh ‘I'm Comg Out’, and the song remas a qutsential anthem of liberatn—gay or otherwise. ‘Over the Rabow’ by Judy GarlandFor generatns who grew up as ‘iends of Dorothy’, yearng to pe to a realm of Technilor urban fantasy, the tac gay natnal anthem was Garland’s wistful ballad om 1939’s The Wizard of Oz (wh a geo melody by Harold Arlen and touchg lyrics by social activist E.Y.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

But even now that so many closet doors have opened, ‘Over the Rabow’—and don’t you dare ll ‘Somewhere Over the Rabow’ lt someone threaten to revoke your gay rd—still spir pri and reverence. ‘A Ltle Rpect’ by Erasure‘What relign or reason uld drive a man to forsake his lover?’ sgs Andy Bell on this stirrg synth-pop classic — a h for Brish duo Erasure 1988, and a perfect, piquant rponse to the Brish ernment’s outrageoly homophobic Sectn 28 legislatn. Word is that at the time, Bell would troduce the song onstage sayg, ‘When I was a ltle girl, I asked my mummy, ‘Can I be gay when I grow up?’ She replied, ‘Y, if you show a ltle rpect.’’Image: Capol Rerds11.