Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men – Billboard

Contents:

• THE FIRST GAY POP SONG I EVER HEARD
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

THE FIRST GAY POP SONG I EVER HEARD

It would be five years before gay marriage was legal any US state. A gay llege stunt named Matthew Shepard had recently been beaten, tied to a Wyomg fence, and left to die. I graduated om llege New York, me back home to Seattle, began lettg people know I was gay, and listened to a lot of mic by the Magic Fields.

The Magic Fields' gay lead sger and songwrer, Steph Merrt, had a ep, fetchgly weary voice, and lyrics at once tellectual and hot. I now know about the history of d, subtle, and ocsnally overt referenc to gay love and lt pop mic, referenc that date back to a time long before beg out was culturally acceptable. From today's vantage pot, you won't miss how gay they are, but I had managed to miss them all.

(I'd also never heard of Lavenr Country, the Seattle-born, openly gay untry group that 1973—1973!

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

—released the first gay untry album, which featured songs like "Cry' The Cocksuckg Tears. They were gay, and at the same time they were universal—which was an credibly tough-md and optimistic statement to make 1999. Marv Gaye, ‘Let’s Get It On’.

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.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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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.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

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. 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.

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