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Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• RAPPER’S “GAY IS OKAY” SONG GO VIRAL
• 20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG GAY
• BEG GAY IS OKAY
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
• GAY IS OKAY GUYS
• NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Texas rapper Adair Ln has ma headl wh the YouTube vio for his new sgle “Ben, ” now also known as the “‘Gay is Okay’ Song. ”First posted on April 30, got noticed late last week by by Perez Hilton, MSNBC, Time, and Gawker, which headled s post “The World’s First Pro-Gay Rap Song is Actually Not Half Bad.

” Wrote Neetzan Zimmerman:Sure, the signature bravado and braggadoc of the genre is still unabashed (“gay is okay / the number one thg a rapper shouldn’t say / I said anyway / and I ma history”). ”The vio has received more than 100, 000 views, which was no doubt helped along by a retweet om syndited sex advice lumnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage.

RAPPER’S “GAY IS OKAY” SONG GO VIRAL

// Hypervol noted: The song, which sampl Michael Jackson’s 1972 h of the same name, is all swagger and nfince as he lls out big-name rappers who refe to risk tarnishg their image by simply not dissg homosexualy.

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.

20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG GAY

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 .

BEG GAY IS OKAY

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 .

“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.

GAY IS OKAY GUYS

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.

” 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.

NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM

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.

” Though ’s slowly losg s stigma, there are still many people who feel unfortable or even threatened by homosexualy. But beg gay has been a part of human existence sce the begng of time, and whether ’s been seen as a bad thg or not, there have always been songs about the experience.