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Contents:

• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• SAM SMH’S NEW SGLE ‘MAN I AM’ IS THEIR GAYT SONG YET
• GAY HE-MAN - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• HE-MAN IS A GAY IN AND A TREASURE
• THE 50 GAYT SONGS OF ALL TIME: HOORAY!
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

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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.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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.

SAM SMH’S NEW SGLE ‘MAN I AM’ IS THEIR GAYT SONG YET

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. 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.

GAY HE-MAN - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD

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. 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.

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

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.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

” 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. Among the tracks, there is one that stands out not only as the gayt on the album but also as the gayt release yet om one of the most popular queer artists the world: Sam Smh. “No, I’m not gay, bro / But I’ve been on that lay low” may be the mpit high pot for the cut, and ’s hilar to hear Smh sg the words.

HE-MAN IS A GAY IN AND A TREASURE

Dorian Electra’s techno-EDM-dance-pop banger tak Psy Rt and the Village People s stri for a tly wild ri where they all nfirm every homophobe’s fear — y, there is a gay agenda, and y, they’re here to spread far and wi. “Makp Drawer, ” the standout sgle off of his major label but EP Isaac’s Insects, is a passnate kiss-off to ternalized homophobia, where the star fally emerg a fully-realized femme form. 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.

THE 50 GAYT SONGS OF ALL TIME: HOORAY!

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. Morali had been studyg the gay scene New York Cy's Greenwich Village, where was popular to drs up as characters for a night of dancg at the dis. Acrdg to Willis, the group's lead sger and -lyricist until he qu 1983, he was the only straight member of the band and rented assumptns they were a gay group for a gay dience.

Jacqu was suckg up to the gay muny bee he wanted to be a star the gay muny, but I listened to 'Macho Man' and thought, 'This is a parody of what's gog on. It pok fun at the homophobic argument that the LGBTQ muny is threateng tradnal fay valu, pecially the le “No fay is safe, When I sashay.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

” The lyrics are perhaps a nod to San Francis, which was known as a safe haven for gays and lbians at the time. Her song “People Like Us” is a popular gay anthem wh l that seem to enurage g out and beg te to yourself.

It probably has somethg to do wh the e of the word “queen, ” which many gay men unapologetilly adopted for themselv. This tune don’t shy away om the ntent, tellg the story of a boy om a small town who fle to pe homophobia and abe.

But the lyrics have a y reference to homosexual hookups gyms, which went over many people’s heads. Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 h is about a woman clarg her rilience after the breakup of a heterosexual relatnship.