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Contents:

• WATCH THIS SGER PERFORM MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON' TO ENURAGE MONKEYS TO MATE
• RICKY MART RELEAS HIS FIRST ALBUM AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• 20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG GAY
• LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
• 25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS
• GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
• ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'

WATCH THIS SGER PERFORM MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON' TO ENURAGE MONKEYS TO MATE

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.

RICKY MART RELEAS HIS FIRST ALBUM AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

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. 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.

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

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.

20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG GAY

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. 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.

LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS

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.

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. [3] The vio was shared on the eBm's World foms[8] on May 22nd, 2005 as "He-Man Sgs a Gay Song, " and on Febary 11th, 2006, the vio was upload to YouTube[9] for the first time as "He-Man do 4 non-blons.

25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS

Then, 1979 the "Dis sucks" movement culmated Dis Demoln Night, where a lol DJ lled on listeners to stroy dis rerds a Chigo baseball stunt was ugly, wh unrton of racism and homophobia, and the Bee Ge were ught the crossfire.

So recently, staff at the Trentham Monkey Fort Stafford, England, ved love song extraordaire David Largie to sg some Marv Gaye hs for their Barbary maque troop hop of enuragg some, ahem, sexual healg. We'll have to wa for warmer days until we learn whether Gaye's legendary love anthems helped fuel a baby boom for the zoo monkeys.

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

In Ricky Mart's new vio, the sger rips a gag om his mouth and a para of gay and straight upl appear, wh the "equals" symbol pated on their chts, as he sgs about how he n't wipe the se om his Monday, nearly a year after endg years of speculatn about his sexualy by tellg the world he was a "fortunate gay man", the 39-year-old will release his first album as an openly homosexual pop is a big step for Mart, who beme one of the world's biggt sellg artists on a diet of machismo, teenage female fans and songs like She mic dtry is watchg to see whether he n mata his populary. Lady Gaga, the biggt sellg female pop act of the past few years, followed up months of support for gay rights wh the song Born This Way, which she sgs: "No matter gay, straight, or bi, lbian, transgenred life, I'm on the right track baby.

"Last year, she walked the red rpet at MTV awards wh a group of discharged gay soldiers to prott at the US ary's policy of don't ask, don't Perry and Ke$ha have also released songs which purport to show support for gay rights.

ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'

Perry shot to fame 2008 wh the song I Kissed a Girl and also had a h wh Ur So Gay, which the word "gay" is ed as a her most recent h, Firework, preach the msage that there is nothg wrong wh beg different, and was acpanied by a vio showg two boys me out an emotnal msage posted on his webse March of last year, which he said: "The word 'happs' tak on a new meang for me as of today. "As attus have changed, pop stars are tendg to e out earlier their reers, cludg Will Young and X Factor wner Joe Mart, Boy Gee famoly flected speculatn about his private life durg Culture Club's heyday, by claimg he would rather have "a nice cup of tea" than John, who had scribed himself as bisexual, only fully me out the early 1980s followg his divorce om wife Renate Blel, while Gee Michael was forced to reveal his sexualy 1998 after beg ught a "lewd act" wh an unrver police officer a Los Angel public famoly turned crisis to opportuny wh the release of Outsi, a sgle which poked fun at his even openly gay pop sgers rarely make reference to genr songs, although a track on the Morrissey album, Rglear of the Tormentors, was njectured to referred to a male Peter Robson, edor of the webse Popjtice, says pop stars still feel prsure to hi their sexualy. Gambacci is equally cynil about the motivatns of artists such as Perry and Ke$ha, scribg the way certa female stars play wh homosexualy as "dippg their toe the water whout gettg their foot wet".

Like Mart, Elton John also me out later life and recently beme a father to baby the publicy trail for Mart's album, Mi + Alma + Sexo, h high gear last week, an Amerin supermarket censored an image of Elton and his partner David Furnish holdg their new baby on the ont US Weekly are some parts of the world, seems, where hostili rema, no matter how many rerds a person has those hopg that Mart's new album will offer a ep reflectn of gay life may be disappoted.