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55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
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‘I Will Survive’ by Gloria GaynorIt starts off slowly, shroud fear; then the beat kicks , the song builds nfince, and by the end, now backed by a strg sectn, ’s a full-bore dis anthem of self-assurance. On s betiful face, Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’ is about a woman gettg over the guy who done her wrong; but 1978, as gay liberatn was gatherg steam heated nightclubs around the world, also played like a claratn of hard-won pri (‘I ed to cry / But now I hold my head up high’) and pennce om the hetero norm (‘I’m not that chaed-up ltle person still love wh you’). Rerd at the height of Ameri's AIDS crisis and spired by New York’s unrground gay ball scene (famoly documented the 1991 film Paris Is Burng), Madonna’s ep-hoe–flected 1990 smash mands you to leave the heavy stuff asi—if only for a few mut—and fd salvatn on the dance floor.
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