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Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• 1980S DIS H THAT BEME A GAY ANTHEM CROSSWORD CLUE
• THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Want to check out a playlist of our favore gay songs om the 1980s?

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1980S DIS H THAT BEME A GAY ANTHEM CROSSWORD CLUE

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THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"

Unlike Queen, all three members of Bronski Beat were openly gay and their songs reflected this as well.

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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

Dpe rampant homophobia tied to both the AIDS epimic and the nservative learship of Ronald Reagan the U. Sure, RuPl had already broken before this song and movie (see our number one song) and the mid-’90s were surprisgly gay-iendly — To Wong Foo was sandwiched between the release of two other celebrated and succsful mastream LGBTQ films, The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert 1994 and The Birdge 1996. And the song is still performed today by drag queens gay bars across the untry.

Although only reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, was a number one h on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play, large part bee so many gay men loved the song — after all, was fun, sexy, danceable and mpy. Sce s release 1982, the song’s legacy has solidified s stat as a gay anthem. Charts after a Facebook mpaign was lnched to get the song back on the charts rponse to a polician who blamed floodg and adverse weather on gay marriage.