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message from the gay community lyrics

The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos releas ntroversial song about how their “gay agenda” will “rpt” children to be “alli.”

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THE REAL STORY OF THE YMCA THAT INSPIRED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S GAY ANTHEM

* message from the gay community lyrics *

The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a mic vio July 1 tled “A Msage From the Gay Communy” that tails their missn of “nvertg” children.

The vers slowly build to a boistero chos of “we’re g for your children” and “the gay agenda is g home.

The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a statement on July 8 fendg the song, sayg the cricisms are “far-right. The Queasy Double Msage of Taylor Swift’s ‘You Need to Calm Down’The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of Swift, drsed as a ench y, mak up wh her pop-star rival the climax to a vio supposedly about gay rights. Shout along wh this bra benr: “Sha never ma anybody ls gay!

˝ A MSAGE FROM THE GAY COMMUNY˝ PERFORMED BY THE SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS

The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of persecutn. * message from the gay community lyrics *

The song’s send verse tak on homophobic monstrators: “Sunshe on the street at the para / But you would rather be the dark ag.

It clos wh a plug to sign a petn for the passage of the Equaly Act, which would ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and a star whose greatt polil ntroversy ed to be that she had no polics, a sgle that name-checks GLAAD is a real evolutn, and ’s already reportedly havg the ncrete effect of boostg donatns for gay rights. LGBTQ folks sirg legal protectns, cultural cln, social servic, and all the other ems on the gay agenda rightly wele the help of straight people.

If heterosexuals bee overly important the gay movement, then be harr to talk, wh precisn, about what the movement is actually for. Thought this vio was about gay rights?

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

The send verse is the one about homophobic protters. )Onle snarkers agast superstars and -person shouters at gay people—why are the two class of people sharg a song?

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MESSAGE FROM THE GAY COMMUNITY LYRICS

The Real Story Of The YMCA That Inspired The Village People's Gay Anthem - Gothamist .

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