55 Bt Gay Songs of All Time (LGBTQ+ Pri Songs)

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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. 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. 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.

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

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 .

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

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.

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. The Liverpool five-piece allowed the Midas touch of producer Trevor Horn to transform their urgent mo to a Hi-NRG supernova, offerg jt enough of a sniff of a thrillg gay subculture to potentially rpt the kids.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

Easily one of the bt LGBTQ+ Pri songs of the 2000s, the gay sger’s send sgle shot to the top of the UK charts s send week and end up 2007’s third-biggt seller on the eve of the download era. Across much-loved stud albums, many sgl and an extensive TV reer – cludg -hostg the 2022 Eurovisn Song Contt – the BRIT Award-wner has creasgly ed his platform to speak up agast homophobia. Declarg themself as non-bary 2019, this affectg ballad was lifted om their sophomore album, The Thrill Of It All.

Confirmg his tentn for the tune to be regard as one of the bt LGBTQ+ Pri songs, John ntued, “It remd me of the film If…., by Ldsay Anrson – was very homoerotic. The sger, who retired om performg 2021 but still rerds, ma her name the gay clubs and bars, and this was her breakout h. Gettg ught ttagg a Los Angel public toilet isn’t the subtlt of ways to announce to the world you’re gay, but Gee Michael seized the moment and turned the tabloid sndal to somethg approachg a lculated masterstroke.

“I thought Go Wt would su Neil [Tennant, sger]’s voice… a song about an ialistic gay utopia. This glor “sad gay dis anthem” or “ultimate sad banger” is rated so highly, ma Rollg Stone magaze’s prtig 500 Greatt Songs Of All Time list 2021, wh a hugely imprsive No. Let’s Have A Kiki, drawg on gay slang for gossip, was the third and last sgle om the group’s fal album to date, 2012’s Magic Hour.

Bar the llaboratn wh MNDR on Swerlk, which was issued to memorate victims of the Orlando gay-club massacre of 2016, Let’s Have A Kiki signalled a lengthy hiat for the band, but we hope they’ll be back aga someday…. Released towards the end of 1992, crossed over om the gay club scene and spired a generatn of acts to “sashay, shantay” while “workg” to the left (and not fettg to turn to the right).

Released September 1982, this melodic breakthrough was arguably the most subversive gay-themed rerd yet to top the UK charts, let alone break to the US Top 10 the followg year. Havg set the gay (and mastream) club scene ablaze on s 1978 but, remas, to this day, a guaranteed floor-filler, and one of the bt Chaka Khan songs to boot. Brgg the Pri story almost bang up to date, the 2019 eyebrow-raiser Juice somehow transcends the standard parameters of a gay anthem while riffg on s 80s funk spiratn (most fabuloly the pop-culture smasbord of s vio).