Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men – Billboard

Contents:

• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• 20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG GAY
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
• THE ULTIMATE GAY LOVE SONGS PLAYLIST FOR YOUR LGBTQ WEDDG

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

Below, we list out 30 of our favore gay love songs — specifilly which men sg about lovg men — rangg om sensual dance bangers to tenr pop ballads. ” The track’s mandg melody perfectly ntrasts the head-over-heels emotn they portray through the lyrics, makg this a fun, strange trip through gay romance. ” The Brish star’s track employs his exuberant sexualy, a hard-htg beat and expertly-crafted melodi to make this one of the sexit songs about gay romance recent memory.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

K-pop stars don’t ually get opportuni to exprs their same-sex love thanks to Korea’s rigid anti-gay polici.

But pop sger Holland fied expectatns wh his release of “Neverland, ” one of the first K-pop songs wh openly gay nnotatns. But by the song’s send verse, the duo’s openly gay member, Chad Kg, chim to show that exact same sentiment to a boy, th showg once aga that pronouns matter when to penng a queer love song.

Chartg the overtly queer story of two gay wboys makg off to the night, the song is as joyful as is almost hntg. 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. 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.

20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG GAY

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. 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. 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 . We’re not jt gay and micians, ” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.

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.

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.

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” 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. 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. From label-chewg artists like Kehlani and Frank Ocean to proudly gay creators like Kev Abstract and Hayley Kiyoko, queer mic is takg up more space than ever before.

In wrg her but sgle, Kg Prcs was spired by queer lerature and generatns of hidn gay '50s are famo for valug a nuclear fay stcture and clean-cut genr rol. "Somebody's givg you the ld shoulr to brg you more, and how that looks very siar to the way people once uldn't be gay public.

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BROCKHAMPTON ontman Kev Abstract, born Clifford Ian Simpson, is known for dissectg tolerance and homophobia his mic, particularly his solo "Somethg About Him" b Abstract's knack for disarmg, open-hearted lyricism wh BROCKHAMPTON's bright, othy productn. Perfume Geni, aka Mike Hadreas, may have ed the term "gay magic" as a joke a 2017 terview wh The Guardian, but 's the perfect way to scribe so much of his mic.

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""There are a lot of songs about youth and young love, pecially relatn to gayns; I wanted to make sacred the other si of that. But when Orville Peck’s myster barone follows the twangy guar to “My mama told me when I was young/ We are all born superstars,” brgs the gay anthem to another level.

If you walk to a gay club wh the next few months and don’t hear the openg, heart-poundg stras of Vct’s “Kill My Heart,” ll the police, bee a crime has been mted.

Wh two gay ins on one song, “No More Tears” opens wh Streisand croong “It’s rag, ’s pourg/ My love life is borg me to tears.