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Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• RAY-GAY
• 5 REASONS LANA DEL REY IS A ME TO GAY FANS
• RAY GAY

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

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30 Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men.

From steamy dance tracks to tenr pop ballads, gay love songs e all shap and siz. Wh so many gay love songs to choose om, Billboard cid to offer some help.

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 lyrics to Brockhampton’s electrifyg mic has never shied away om ontman Kev Abstract’s gayns.

” 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. 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.

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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. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTTwo years before an official Gay Pri rally arrived the Uned Kgdom, the Kks released one of pop’s first big hs wh an L.

Robson/Hulton Archive, via Getty ImagIn 1970, homosexual acts were still outlawed parts of the Uned Kgdom and would rema so for more than a . Yet two years before the natn even had s first official Gay Pri rally, the qutsentially Brish songwrer Ray Davi of the Kks wrote “Lola, ” a song that embraced a full spectm of genr nonnformy.

In reactn, Davi subbed “cherry la” on an alternate gay referenc had cropped up pop songs before, “‘Lola’ was the first big h wh an L.

5 REASONS LANA DEL REY IS A ME TO GAY FANS

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.

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. “A DJ told her [the song] was gog to her reer – people would thk she was gay, ” Rodgers said.

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It’s a quiet piano ballad about growg up gay. 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. The gay teens and tweens, most of them closeted, fely did.

“Beg gay and open about is my substance. 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 . “One thg that we have is that we’ve always sung about beg gay. We’re not jt gay and micians, ” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.

“We have sung about beg gay as a part of the topic wh our 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. “The gay muny lifted me up and supported me. 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. ” 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.