25 Essential Gay Pri Songs: Rollg Stone Edor Picks – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• 20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG GAY
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
• THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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. “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.

20 BT SONGS ABOUT BEG 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.

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.

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ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

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. 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.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

” 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. Songs about beg gay n be happy and celebratory, pturg the joy and eedom that wh livg openly.

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

This movg and emotnal ballad tells the story of g to terms wh one’s own inty, both as a gay man and as a talented artist who is stgglg to fd acceptance a world that often treats mori unfairly.

Betiful is one of Christa Aguilera’s most popular songs, and tells the story of beg gay a world that n be harsh and unwelg for people who don’t nform to society’s norms. Though the track was spired by Aguilera’s close iend Stt, who is openly gay, many other listeners have been able to draw spiratn om as well.

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

The lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody are based on Mercury’s experience of beg gay and livg London the 1970s. This was a highly important piece of mic the LGBT+ muny, as s msage of pri and fiance helped to challenge long-held societal taboos around homosexualy.