12 Unfettable Duets From Gay Ins • GCN

Contents:

• 12 UNFETTABLE DUETS FROM GAY INS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)

12 UNFETTABLE DUETS FROM GAY INS

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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

So we thought was high time to celebrate some of the bt and the worst duets om gay ins. Out and proud gay man – and GCN terviewee – John Grant was joed onstage Dubl by the unflappable Sead O’Connor and Villagers ontman Conor O’Brien for one of the most betiful versns of Grant’s song Glacier.

One was an old pro, the other an upg starlet – both have bee two of the biggt gay ins all of history. In one of the gayt thgs to happen years, Lady Gaga was joed onstage by piano matro – and D&G boytter – Elton John for a duet of some of their biggt songs. At the Grammys this year, was Hozier’s turn to grab the spotlight wh his anti-homophobic anthem Take Me To Church before meld to Annie Lennox’s I Put A Spell On You.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

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

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.

It’s a quiet piano ballad about growg up gay.

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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.

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