Lookg for a list of the bt gay sgers and gay micians of all time? We've round up our top picks along wh their bt songs!
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40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
From Lady Gaga and Christa Aguilera, to Elton John and Gloria Gaynor, we rank the 50 most spiratnal LGBTQ+ songs to uplift the queer muny * gay 50s songs *
This article will emphasise rock and roll songs wh a gay, bisexual, lbian, transgenr, androgyno, or crossdrsg theme. Some of the songs were nsired que progrsive durg the time they were released, when homosexualy was nsired a mental illns and crossdrsg was illegal.
The song’s lyrics, which referenced homosexualy, were changed, to f to the nformist 50s mastream culture. The reference to gay romance is found the lyric: “Number 47 said to Number 3, ‘You’re the cutt jailbird I ever did see.
There’s no implitn that straight people n turn gay or anythg (even then, ’s ol to experiment and sexualy is fluid).
35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
* gay 50s songs *
Mad About The Boy – Dah Washgton – Origally wrten by Noël Coward 1932 for mil revue Words and Mic, the song has a hidn gay meang. The msage behd this versn is that cema un all, and you n maybe even extend that to beg acceptg of other people, that gay or straight, we’re really not that different after all. Siarly, a lot of the “gay ins” back the day were straight women and not gay men.
Noël Coward even wrote vers supposed to be sung by a bsman who is eher gay or bisexual about beg “mad about the boy” – ‘When I told my wife, she said “I’ve never heard such nonsense my life! Noël Coward was really secretive about his sexualy bee those days, society was really homophobic and he feared losg everythg if he me out. So he didn’t like the song beg a gay anthem, but once you release a song, ’s out there and people n terpret as they wish.
“Let me tell you about a place somewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay” – sure gay at that time meant happy, but let have this one!