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• BORN THIS WAYLADY GAGATRACK 2 ON BORN THIS WAY PRODUCED BYLADY GAGA, JEPPE LRSEN & 2 MORE“BORN THIS WAY” IS ABOUT SELF-LIBERATN, AND LOVG EVERY PART OF YOURSELF, NO MATTER YOUR RACE, GENR, OR SEXUALY; THE SONG WAS RELEASED AS THE LEAD SGLE OM THE… READ MORE FEB. 11, 20113 VIEWERS638.2K VIEWS153 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSESPAñOLPORTUGUêSHRVATSKIFRANçAISBORN THIS WAY LYRICS[INTRO]IT DON'T MATTER IF YOU LOVE HIMOR PAL "H-I-M" (M, M, M, M)JT PUT YOUR PAWS UP'CSE YOU WERE BORN THIS WAY, BABY[VERSE 1]MY MAMA TOLD ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG"WE ARE ALL BORN SUPERSTARS"SHE ROLLED MY HAIR AND PUT MY LIPSTICK ONIN THE GLASS OF HER BOUDOIR[PRE-CHOS]THERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH LOVG WHO YOU ARESHE SAID, "CSE HE MA YOU PERFECT, BABE"SO HOLD YOUR HEAD UP, GIRL, AND YOU'LL GO FARLISTEN TO ME WHEN I SAY[CHOS]I'M BETIFUL MY WAY'CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAKI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAYDON'T HI YOURSELF REGRETJT LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SETI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYRIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[POST-CHOS]DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENDON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENDON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENDON'T BE (DON'T BE, DON'T BE)[VERSE 2]GIVE YOURSELF PNCE AND LOVE YOUR IENDSSUBWAY KID, REJOICE YOUR TTHIN THE RELIGN OF THE SECUREI MT BE MYSELF, RPECT MY YOUTH[PRE-CHOS]A DIFFERENT LOVER IS NOT A SBELIEVE PAL H-I-M, HEY-HEY-HEYI LOVE MY LIFE, I LOVE THIS RERD ANDMI AMORE VOLE FE YAH (SAME DNA)[CHOS]I'M BETIFUL MY WAY'CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAKI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAYDON'T HI YOURSELF REGRETJT LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SETI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYRIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY[INTERLU](WAY)DON'T BE, DON'T BE, DON'T BE, D-(WAY)CHURCH[BREAKDOWN]DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENWHETHER YOU'RE BROKE OR EVERGREENYOU'RE BLACK, WHE, BEIGE, CHOLO SCENTYOU'RE LEBANE, YOU'RE ORIENTWHETHER LIFE'S DISABILILEFT YOU OUTST, BULLIED, OR TEASEDREJOICE AND LOVE YOURSELF TODAY'CSE BABY, YOU WERE BORN THIS WAY[CHOS]NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BILBIAN, TRANSGENR LIFEI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN TO SURVIVENO MATTER BLACK, WHE, OR BEIGECHOLA OR ORIENT MAI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN TO BE BRAVE!I'M BETIFUL MY WAY'CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAK ('CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAK)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY (RIGHT TRACK, BABY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)DON'T HI YOURSELF REGRETJT LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SET (LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SET)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY (RIGHT TRACK, BABY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, YEAHOOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY[POST-CHOS]I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (HEY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (BORN THIS WAY, HEY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (HEY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY (RIGHT TRACK, BABY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY[OUTRO]SAME DNA (HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY)BUT BORN THIS WAY (HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY)SAME DNA (HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY)BUT BORN THIS WAY (HEY, HEY, HEY)77EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• NO MATTER GAY STRAIGHT OR BI LYRICS
• “NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT OR BI, LBIAN, TRANSGENRED LIFE, I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE.”
• LADY GAGA SAYS U.S. “BETTER NOT MS WH GAY MARRIAGE” AT CHROMATI BALL
• LADY GAGA'S 'BORN THIS WAY': THE NEW GAY ANTHEM?'ANYTHG SHE SAYS, I THK, WILL ALWAYS BE THE GAY ANTHEM,' SAYS EDIAN GABE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MICBY JOCELYN VENAFEBARY 11, 2011/3:09 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY JOCELYN VENAFEBARY 11, 2011 / 3:09 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"LADY GAGA'S 'BORN THIS WAY': THE NEW GAY ANTHEM?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2011-02-11T20:09:25.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2011-02-11T20:09:25.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"JOCELYN VENA","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH LYRICS LIKE "DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEEN" AND "NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT OR BI/ LBIAN, TRANSGENRED LIFE/ I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY/ I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE," 'S CLEAR THAT [ARTIST ID="3061469"]GAGA[/ARTIST] IS SGG FOR THOSE THE LGBT MUNY WHO FEEL DISENANCHISED ON HER NEW TRACK "[ARTICLE ID="1657726"]BORN THIS WAY[/ARTICLE]." PERHAPS WAS NO MISTAKE THAT GAGA BUTED THE CLUB-IENDLY TRACK ON A FRIDAY, THE DAY MANY PEOPLE HEAD OUT ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, AS THOSE THE LGBT MUNY MAKE THEIR FRIDAY NIGHT PLANS, MTV NEWS FOUND OUT WHAT SOME PROMENT PROFSNALS THE MUNY THK ABOUT THE TRACK AND GOT THEIR ANSWERS TO THE QUTN: IS THIS THE NEW GAY ANTHEM?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"TYPILLY, GAY ANTHEMS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BY GAY PEOPLE, NOT FOR GAY PEOPLE. THE EXPLICLY PRO-GAY SENTIMENT IS SOMETHG RELATIVELY NEW TO MAJOR-LABEL POP (PECIALLY MAJOR-LABEL POP LNCHG A MUCH-ANTICIPATED ALBUM BY ARGUABLY THE MOST RELEVANT POP STAR THE WORLD RIGHT NOW)," EXPLAED RICH JUZWIAK, THOR OF THE POP-CULTURE FOURFOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I HAVE MIXED FEELGS ABOUT THE NFLATN OF ACTIVISM AND MARKETG HERENT A PIECE OF MERCE LIKE 'BORN THIS WAY,' BUT ULTIMATELY, I THK GAGA'S HEART IS THE RIGHT PLACE. IT'S PRETTY BOLD OF HER, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BEG UTTERLY BENEFICIAL TO HER REER AND EXPOSURE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LOGO'S EDOR JOHN POLLY NOTED THAT THE SONG HAS ALL THE RIGHT ELEMENTS TO BE ADOPTED AS THE ANTHEM FOR 2011. "ITS BIG, 'S LOUD, 'S FUN!" HE SAID. "IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE MASHED UP A ZILLN MIRRORS A DRAG QUEEN'S CLOSET AND THEN SHOT OUT OF A SEQU NNON ... SUBTLE! SUBTLE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THIS ONE HAS MORE [GAY ANTHEM ELEMENTS] THAN MOST," HE NTUED. "IT LLS OUT EVERY LOR OF THE RABOW, LIKE SPECIFILLY, VOLLY. EVERYTHG'S THERE. IT'S GOT ALL AND 'S GOT A BEAT. IT'S FAIAR, BUT 'S NEW. IT'S GAGA. SHE'S GOT SOMETHG THERE FOR EVERYONE, SO HOPEFULLY PEOPLE ARE TO ... I THK YOU'RE GETTG A LOT OF BANG FOR YOUR BUCK, A LOT OF BIG GAY NOISE THAT'S GOG ON."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GABE LIEDMAN, EDIAN AND POP-CULTURE EXPERT, SCRIBED THE TRACK AS "PERFECT" AND ADMS THAT GAGA HAS LOCKED UP, THAT IS UNTIL SHE RELEAS HER NEXT TRACK OFF THE MAY ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME. "I MEAN, SHE DIDN'T WASTE ANY TIME WH POETRY," HE TEASED. "SHE KD OF GOT RIGHT TO THE POT. IT'S NOT SUBTLE. THERE'S NO MISTERPRETG . THAT'S WHAT SHE THKS: YOU'RE BORN THIS WAY, BORN THIS GAY!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I THK THIS WILL BE THE GAY ANTHEM FOR AS LONG AS TAK BEFORE HER NEXT SONG OUT," HE JOKED. "AND THAT WILL BE THE GAY ANTHEM AND THEN ANYTHG THAT OUT AFTER THAT. ANYTHG SHE SAYS, I THK, WILL ALWAYS BE THE GAY ANTHEM, UNTIL SHE DI."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DO YOU THK "BORN THIS WAY" IS THE NEW GAY ANTHEM? LET KNOW THE MENTS!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• LADY GAGA IS GAY?? IS THIS TE??
• AROUND SOUTHEAST ASIA, LADY GAGA SONG AIRED WHOUT PRO-GAY LYRICS
• THE 10 GREATT QUEER ANTHEMS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTHERE'S A WHOLE NEW GENERATN OF BOPS TO DISCS. MYKKI BLAN, MXMTOON, KATIE PT, AND VCT WEIGH {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MICBY CO ROMACKJUNE 21, 2021/10:10 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1080PX;WIDTH:1920PX;}STEVE GRANZ/WIREIMAGE. MACKENZIE SWEETNAM/GETTY IMAG. JAM DEVANEY/GC IMAG. EARL GIBSON III/WIREIMAGE BY CO ROMACKJUNE 21, 2021 / 10:10 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE 10 GREATT QUEER ANTHEMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2021-06-21T14:10:08.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2021-06-21T14:10:08.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"CO ROMACK","KEYWORDS":"PRI MONTH","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT MAK A QUEER ANTHEM?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT’S THE QUTN MTV NEWS RECENTLY POSED TO FOUR MICIANS: RAPPER AND ACTIVIST MYKKI BLAN; MXMTOON, THE ULELE-PLAYG BEDROOM-POP ARTIST; SOUTHERN-BORN SGER-SONGWRER KATIE PT; AND GOSPEL-FLUENCED POP STAR VCT. THE QUARTET MET ON A RECENT ZOOM LL TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE THE 10 GREATT LGBTQ+ ANTHEMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR, AND PRR TO THE NVERSATN, THE ARTISTS WERE ASKED TO PREPARE THEIR PICKS FOR WHAT THEY NSIRED THE MOST CLUB-IMMACULATE OR CULTURALLY IMPACTFUL SONGS OF THE LAST TWO S. THE TRACKS ULD BE BY ANY ARTIST, OM ANYWHERE, AND ONLY NEED TO BE RELEASED AFTER THE YEAR 2000. THE TENTN WAS TO E THE SUGGTNS TO CRAFT A PREHENSIVE PLAYLIST SHOWSG THE MIC THAT F THE MUNY AND SOUNDTRACKS S SPAC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INEVABLY, THE PROMPT’S OPEN-END NATURE GAVE WAY TO MORE QUTNS: WHAT EXACTLY IS A “QUEER ANTHEM”? SHOULD THE TRACK BE MA BY A PERSON WHO INTIFI AS SUCH TO QUALIFY, AND HOW HAS THAT FN CHANGED AS MORE PEOPLE OPENLY MAKE MIC ABOUT THEIR OWN EXPERIENC AND INTI?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ENSUG NVERSATN LASTED NEARLY TWO HOURS. IT WAS EXTENSIVE BUT, LIKE THE TALOG YIELD, BY NO MEANS PREHENSIVE. ANY ATTEMPT TO PILE AN EXHSTIVE LIST OF THIS KD IS GHT, SUBJECT TO PERSONAL OPNS AND UNIQUE EXPERIENC — AND SO, RATHER THAN A RANKED ARRANGEMENT, WE ORRED ACRDG TO THE NATURAL FLOW OF THE DISCSN. AS THE MICIANS NDIDLY SHARED THEIR OWN ASSOCIATNS WH EACH SONG, OFTEN A TRACK’S SIGNIFINCE WAS EXTRIBLY ENTANGLED WH THE NTEXT OF S RELEASE, SUCH AS THE SHOCKWAVE SENT WHEN FRANK OCEAN ME OUT 2012, OR THE RABIDLY HOMOPHOBIC NTROVERSY THAT EMERGED RPONSE TO LIL NAS X’S “MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME).” AND OTHER TIM, RATHER THAN INTIFYG A SONG’S PARTICULAR MEANG THROUGH S LYRICS OR VISUALS, WAS SELECTED FIRSTLY FOR S SOUND, HOW HAD THE SGULAR ABILY TO MOMENTARILY SPEND TIME AND REALY, TO GUI IENDS AND CHOSEN FAY TO EACH OTHER THE SEETHG DARKNS OF A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KICKG OFF MTV NEWS’S QUEER MIC WEEK, A PRI CELEBRATN OF THE LGBTQ+ ARTISTS AND ALLI MAKG THE MIC THAT MATTERS, THE LIST BELOW MONSTRAT HOW ELIVE AND BROAD THE NCEPT OF A QUEER ANTHEM IS, PART BEE THE MUNY SELF IS SO VIBRANT AND DIVERSE. NO, THIS LIST IS NOT FIVE, BUT IS A GTURE TOWARDS FN, BY AND FOR OURSELV. IN THAT SENSE, CERTA THEM DID EMERGE THE URSE OF OUR NVERSATN: A SIRE TO CREATE SPAC THAT LIBERATE AND NNECT, A NEED TO TELL ONE’S OWN STORY THROUGH ART, AND PERHAPS MOST OF ALL, AN HONT APPRECIATN FOR THE POWER OF A GOOD BOP. MIC HAS TRANSFORMED AND EVOLVED EVEN WH THE RELATIVELY SMALL SPE OF THE LAST TWO S, JT LIKE QUEERNS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FRANK OCEAN: “CHANEL”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN FRANK OCEAN DROPPED “CHANEL” EARLY 2017, FANS IMMEDIATELY HAILED AS A BISEXUAL ANTHEM. THE SONG ARRIVED SHORTLY AFTER BLON, THE R&B FUTURIST’S MOST OUTWARDLY QUEER PROJECT YET, AND FIVE YEARS AFTER HE FIRST ME OUT VIA A TUMBLR NOTE. YET “CHANEL”’S OPENG FELT PECIALLY BOLD. “MY GUY PRETTY LIKE A GIRL,” OCEAN SGS OVER A MUDDY PIANO SAMPLE, “AND HE GOT FIGHT STORI TO TELL.” HE SCRIB A ROMANTIC PARTNER WHO EXISTS BOTH FEME AND MASCULE REALMS AS WELL AS HIS ATTRACTN TO BOTH, A DUALY HE EPOMIZ ON THE SONG’S REPEATED HOOK: “I SEE BOTH SIS LIKE CHANEL.” AS HE REUNTS HIS OWN SH-FILLED POCKETS AND THOANDS DELTA CRED, OCEAN TOASTS TO HAVG ALL — A BANNER MOMENT FOR BISEXUAL VISIBILY WRAPPED A MASSIVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “I GREW UP WH A LOT OF TOXIC REPRENTATNS OF BISEXUALY MEDIA AND A LOT OF FETISHIZATN AROUND WHAT I EVENTUALLY INTIFIED TO BE MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN. … FOR HIM AND HIS EXPRSN OF HIS INTY TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE PEOPLE AROUND ME MA ME FEEL LS WEIRD AND LS STRANGE MY SK AS I WAS TRYG TO NAVIGATE WHAT I WANTED TO INTIFY AS. THAT’S ALSO PART OF QUEER ANTHEMS: HELPG PEOPLE UNRSTAND THE QUEER EXPERIENCE AND BRGG THAT TO THE FOREONT OF WHAT PEOPLE PAY ATTENTN TO.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “TO HAVE LIVED THROUGH THE ENTIRE WORLD JT WRAPPG THEIR ARMS AROUND HIM AND G TOGETHER TO SAY, ‘YOU’RE ONE OF THE BADST BCH OUT; WE GOT YOU NO MATTER WHAT,’ AND THEN TO SEE THAT FLOWERG OF HIM PUBLICLY EXPRSG QUEER LOVE, WAS AN AWOME MOMENT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIL NAS X: “MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME)”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STAN TWTER GAVE LIL NAS X A PLATFORM. “OLD TOWN ROAD” MA HIM A STAR. BUT ONLY “MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME)” LET HIM GIVE SATAN A LAP DANCE. THE POP PROVOTR’S FIERY VISN OF QUEER SIRE QUICKLY BEME THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT MIC VIO OF 2021, AMPLIFIED BY A HOT, HEAVY, CROTCH-GRABBY PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. AT ONE POT, A BACKUP DANCER LICKS HIS NECK BEFORE HE ADMS, “I WANNA FUCK THE ON I ENVY.” SPECTACLE IS THE POT — GAY SEXUALY IS RARELY CENTERED THIS PROMENTLY ON WORK TELEVISN — AND THE ARTIST’S LYRICS PROVI THE FOUNDATN. ON THE SONG HE NAMED AFTER HIMSELF, MONTERO P FOR SOMEONE WH MASCULE PRONOUNS. HE ADMTED THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BRAVE ENOUGH TO DO THAT AS A TEENAGER. BUT NOW? “THIS WILL OPEN DOORS FOR OTHER QUEER PEOPLE TO SIMPLY EXIST,” HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A BLACK GAY MAN AS CELEBRATED AS LIL NAS X HAS BEEN JT FOR BEG SO OPENLY GAY. WHAT A BETIFUL STORY. THE GAY STORYLE ALWAYS ENDS WH ONE DYG OR ONE OF GETTG SICK OR ONE OF GOG OFF TO WAR. IT’S LIKE, NO, BCH. WE’RE HAPPY! AND WE HAVE REALLY GREAT LIV.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TROYE SIVAN: “BLOOM”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE TROYE SIVAN BEME A STADIUM-FILLG TERNATNAL POP STAR, HIS NDID VLOGS ABOUT LIFE AS A TEEN GAED HIM A FAN BASE. SIVAN REPRENTS A NEW GENERATN OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH WHOSE EXPERIENC AND UNRSTANDG ARE BEG SHAPED PART BY S REPRENTATN ONLE: HE ME OUT PUBLICLY A VIO POSTED TO YOUTUBE 2013 (THOUGH HE HAD TOLD HIS FAY PRIVATE THREE YEARS PRR), AN ACT THAT HAS SPIRED MANY YOUNG FANS TO DO THE SAME. THE MIC AND ACTG REERS HE’S VELOPED SCE HAVE ALWAYS CHAMPNED QUEER INTY. HIS MIC VIOS OFTEN PICT GAY RELATNSHIPS WHILE HIS LYRICS EMPLOY MASCULE PRONOUNS AND BRAVELY SPEAKG TO SAME-GENR LOVE, BUT PERHAPS NONE MORE EXPLICLY OR TO AS MUCH FANFARE THAN THOSE THE FLOWERY TRACK “BLOOM.” THE SONG WAS PRAISED AS A “BOTTOMG ANTHEM” FOR S LYRICS THAT ALLUD TO A FANTASY PLAYED OUT BETWEEN TWO MEN (“PUT GAS TO THE MOTOR / AND, BOY, I'LL MEET YOU RIGHT THERE / WE'LL RI THE ROLLERASTER”). THE SONG’S SUBJECT MATTER WAS SEEMGLY NFIRMED BY SIVAN HIMSELF WH A SCE-LETED TWEET THAT READ #BOPSABOUTBOTTOMG, WHICH IS A BIG AL, GIVEN THAT THE SEX ACT IS STILL STIGMATIZED EVEN WH THE GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “I WATCHED HIS G-OUT VIO. THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST EXPERIENC THAT I VIVIDLY REMEMBER SEEG SOMEBODY TALKG ABOUT G OUT. I WAS LIKE, ‘OH, WOW, THIS PERSON THAT I REALLY LOOK UP TO IS ALSO GAY. MAYBE I’M GAY?’”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT ‘BLOOMG’ MEANT AT THE TIME, AND THEN SOMEONE TOLD ME, AND ALL ME FULL CIRCLE. I LOVED THE MIC VIO BEE WAS JT A BUNCH OF FLOWERS OPENG UP, WHICH WAS VERY, VERY CUTE AND MA SENSE AS A METAPHOR.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LADY GAGA: “BORN THIS WAY”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“MY MOMMA TOLD ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG, WE ARE ALL BORN SUPERSTARS.” SO BEGS THE TLE TRACK OF LADY GAGA’S 2011 ALBUM BORN THIS WAY, HER DANCE-POP VOTNAL TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. RIDG THE HIGH OF HER NEWFOUND STARDOM AFTER TWO H POP RERDS, MOTHER MONSTER CHANNELED THE NICKNAME BTOWED UPON HER BY FANS AND CRAFTED A DANCE ALBUM THAT WOULD FORT MARGALIZED LTLE MONSTERS AROUND THE WORLD. TODAY, ’S EASY TO SFF AT THE TRACK’S DIRECT LL-OUTS TO S TARGET DIENCE (“NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BI / LBIAN, TRANSGENR LIFE / I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY, I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE”). BUT 2011, THE SONG WAS A RONANT RALLY CRY — AND THE EXACT SORT OF SOUNDTRACK LGBTQ+ AMERINS NEED ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE REPEAL OF THE HOMOPHOBIC LAW DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL AND THE LEGALIZATN OF MARRIAGE EQUALY NATNWI. IT ALSO PROVED THAT POP MIC N SOUND GOOD AND SPIRE SOCIAL GOOD. GAGA HERSELF TOOK HER ACTIVISM TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY TABLISHG THE BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATN, WHICH SUPPORTS THE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. THE WAYS WHICH WE TALK ABOUT QUEER INTI HAVE EVOLVED SCE “BORN THIS WAY,” BUT NO MATTER WHAT, GAGA REASSUR WE’RE “ON THE RIGHT TRACK.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “IT JT FEELS SO GOOD. IT’S SO CLIVE, ’S SO WARM, ’S SO FUZZY. YOU HEAR THAT TRACK, AND DON’T MATTER WHERE YOU’RE AT. THE PARA IS GOG, THE FLAGS ARE FLYG, AND YOU’RE JT LIKE, ‘Y, I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK! Y, GAGA!’{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “ANY BIG MASTREAM SONG ABOUT SEXUAL INTY MOV THE NEEDLE. THIS SONG DID THAT A BIG WAY, BEE PEOPLE WOULD ARGUE THE FACT THAT SEXUAL INTY IS A CHOICE — ’S NOT A CHOICE. I WAS BORN THIS WAY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “THE SPEAKG UP IS FELY SOMETHG THAT AS A YOUNG QUEER PERSON I APPRECIATED OM THE PEOPLE I LOOKED UP TO BEE I DIDN’T GROW UP AROUND A LOT OF PEOPLE MY IMMEDIATE MUNY THAT WERE TALKG ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL INTY OR THEIR GENR INTY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHRISTA AGUILERA, LIL’ KIM, MýA, P!NK: “LADY MARMALA”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALL-STAR DIVA TEAM-UPS DON’T ALWAYS BEE QUEER ANTHEMS, BUT THE 2001 “LADY MARMALA” UPDATE SEEMED PREORDAED FOR SUCCS. IT WAS ANCHORED TO THE MOUL ROUGE! SOUNDTRACK; FEATURED FOUR DIVAS PERFORMG AT THE TOP OF THEIR RPECTIVE GAM; AND CCIALLY, S VIO FOUND THEM GLAMMED UP THEIR BURLQUE BT AND CHEWG SCENERY. THE PAST 20 YEARS HAVE MA THE TUNE, ORIGALLY MA FAMO BY LABELLE 1974, A KARAOKE SENTIAL, A DRAG-SHOW STAPLE, AND A REER HIGHLIGHT FOR CHRISTA AGUILERA, LIL’ KIM, MýA, AND P!NK (AS WELL AS -PRODUCER MISSY ELLTT). THE BED VOL ELECTRICY ULD LIGHT A BARET, AND THE SONG’S PLAYFUL APPROACH TO SEXUALY REMAS S SEND-BT HOOK — ONLY TOPPED BY THAT INIC, IMMORTAL FRENCH REA. (IT MEANS, OF URSE, “DO YOU WANT TO SLEEP WH ME?”){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “I RECENTLY SAW A DRAG SHOW WHERE THIS DRAG QUEEN PERFORMED ‘LADY MARMALA,’ AND WAS THE MOST JOYO EXPERIENCE. YOU SEE THE DRAG QUEENS PLETELY EMBRACG FEMY, AND ’S SO BETIFUL TO WATCH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “IF ANYONE IS WH THEIR IENDS AND HEARS THIS SONG, MY FAVORE PART ABOUT THAT IS EVERYONE PICKS A PERSON. EHER YOU’RE P!NK, OR YOU’RE CHRISTA, AND YOU ALL FD YOUR SPOTS AND YOU GET YOUR PLAC, AND YOU GO FOR .”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “I THK TO BE A TE DIVA, YOU ALSO HAVE TO HAVE TRANSFORMED THE CULTURE A B YOUR TIME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIG FREEDIA: “Y’ALL GET BACK NOW”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE QUEEN DIVA, YOU BT-UH BELIEVE-UH — BIG FREEDIA IS ARGUABLY A LEGEND WH THE NEW ORLEANS BOUNCE SCENE. BOUNCE IS QUTSENTIALLY NOLA, PART FOR S LL-AND-RPONSE VOLS FLUENCED BY MARDI GRAS CHANTS, BUT ALSO FOR S WELG ATTU TOWARDS VISIBLY QUEER PERFORMERS S CULTURE, OF WHICH THE LOUISIANA CY HAS A RICH HISTORY. SCE BEGNG HER REER THE ’90S, FREEDIA HAS HELPED BRG THE GENRE OM THE CLUB UNRGROUND TO THE MASTREAM. SHE ME TO SLAY WHEN SHE LENT HER SPOKEN-WORD STYLGS TO BEYONCé’S SONG “FORMATN” AND HAS ALSO NTRIBUTED VOLS TO TRACKS BY DRAKE, KHA, AND EVEN REBEC BLACK. BUT THIS TRANSN OM MARGAL ART FORM TO MIC’S EVERYDAY LARGELY BEGAN WH THE RELEASE OF “Y’ALL GET BACK NOW,” THE SLAMMG BREAKOUT SGLE OFF HER 2010 BUT ALBUM BIG FREEDIA HZ VOL. 1. THE LEAD TRACK ENPSULATED HER MILY WH S REPETIVE SHOUT-SUNG VOLS AND MIC VIO THAT FEATURED GODZILLA-SIZED DANCERS DOMATG A CYSPE WH THEIR WIGGLY, GYRATG BUTTS. THE WORD “TWERK” SELF WAS POPULARIZED THANKS TO FREEDIA’S AMBASSADORSHIP, AND SHE HOLDS THE GUNS WORLD RERD FOR THE MOST PEOPLE TWERKG SIMULTANEOLY — 406 {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “IF WE’RE TALKG ABOUT INS, BIG FREEDIA SHOULD BE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “FREEDIA’S STAR HAS REALLY BEEN ON THE RISE THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND SHE FELY PAVED THE WAY FOR A LOT OF . SHE’S ALWAYS REALLY SPIRATNAL.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “I’M NOT A VERY FEME-PRENTG LBIAN, BUT IF ANYBODY ULD MAKE ME TWERK, ’D BE BIG FREEDIA.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KG PRCS: “1950”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“ANTHEMIC” PROBABLY ISN’T THE FIRST SCRIPTOR THAT TO MD WHEN YOU THK OF KG PRCS’S “1950,” BUT IS APT. BACKED BY SWAYG STMENTALS AND LILTG LAYERED VOLS, THE SGER-SONGWRER’S BUT SGLE ANNOUNCED HER AS AN DIE-POP ARTIST TO WATCH AFTER SRED HARRY STYL’S VETED SEAL OF APPROVAL. KG PRCS, NéE MIKAELA STRS, WAS 19 YEARS OLD WHEN “1950” DROPPED, BUT THE SONG ARTFULLY ALLUS TO A TIME WHEN BEG QUEER MEANT VERT AFFAIRS AND D LANGUAGE (“I LIKE WHEN WE PLAY 1950 / SO BOLD, MAKE ‘EM KNOW THAT YOU'RE WH ME”). IT ALSO LAID A SOLID FOUNDATN FOR MORE OVERTLY SEXUALLY EMPOWERED TRACKS TO E, OFTEN RPORATG FEME PRONOUNS. WHETHER SHE’S WORSHIPPG AT THE ALTAR OF PSY OR MAKG GROWN MEN CRY WHILE FUCKG WH GENR, KG PRCS TYPIFI THE UNAPOLOGETILLY UNSUBTLE REFERENC TO QUEER SEX AND CULTURE WE’VE E TO EXPECT OM YOUNGER LGBTQ+ ARTISTS LIKE CLAIRO, GIRL RED, AND TROYE SIVAN. WHAT SETS HER APART IS HOW REFED HER ENTIRE DISGRAPHY SOUNDS, OM HER KKIT CUTS TO THE LH LBIAN PSALM THAT PUT HER ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOOM: “I WOULD PLAY HER SONGS THE R WH MY IENDS WHO ARE TOTALLY STRAIGHT, AND WE’D LISTEN TO AND BE LIKE, ‘THIS IS REALLY GAY, AND THAT’S REALLY AWOME.’ KG PRCS HAS REALLY BROUGHT WOMEN-LOVG-WOMEN RELATNSHIPS TO THIS WHOLE OTHER SENSE OF PEOPLE REALIZG, ‘THIS IS SOMETHG THAT’S GONNA HAPPEN, AND I’M NOT GONNA HI THAT ANYMORE.’{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “WE’RE SEEG THIS NEW, FUTURE GENERATN OF GEN ZERS E UP AND JT CHANGE SH. I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH BEE TO ME, FEELS LIKE A GAY GIRL GUIDG ANOTHER GIRL, POSSIBLY THE CLOSET, TO ACCEPTANCE. THAT’S SOMETHG THAT ALL OF QUEER PEOPLE N INTIFY WH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MUNA: “I KNOW A PLACE”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELECTRONIC POP BAND MUNA WROTE THE RILIENT, RELENTLSLY POSIVE “I KNOW A PLACE” SPECIFILLY TO BE A QUEER ANTHEM — AND ACTUALLY BEME ONE. THE LOS ANGEL TR BEGAN WORK ON THE VAPORO TUNE, BUILT AROUND THE POWER OF GAY CLUBS AS SANCTUMS, CELEBRATN AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE 2015. BUT THE FOLLOWG YEAR, THE HORRIFIC PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE, AT THE TIME THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY, TURNED THE SONG’S SYMBOLIC PLEAS TO “LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPON” TO IGHTENG REALI. REELG LGBTQ+ LISTENERS SOUGHT SHELTER S VIVID AND WELG EMBRACE. “DON'T YOU BE AAID OF LOVE AND AFFECTN,” VOLIST KATIE GAV SGS; SHE SOUNDS LIKE SHE’S FLOATG JT UNR THE DIS BALL, ABOVE A PATCHWORK OF OUTSTRETCHED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “I FOUND THAT SONG AT A TIME MY LIFE WHERE I REALLY NEED TO HEAR, ‘THIS ISN’T . THIS ISN’T WHERE ALL ENDS. THIS ISN’T LIFE, AND THIS IS NOT HOW HAS TO BE.’ THE SONGS FD THE PEOPLE THEY NEED TO, AND I WAS THAT PERSON AT THE TIME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYYKI BLAN: “PROTT MIC REALLY BEGS TO HELP PEOPLE BEG TO BREAK DOWN THROUGH SONG THE DIFFERENT TERSECTNS OF OUR SOCIETY. A SONG IS SIMPLE; A SONG N BE PLEX. BUT ’S THAT TRANSGRSIVE NATURE OF WHAT’S BEG SAID OR MUNITED THAT N REALLY HELP A SIMPLE WAY UNRSTAND PLEX IAS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KACEY MGRAV: “FOLLOW YOUR ARROW”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT MAK “FOLLOW YOUR ARROW” SO MONUMENTAL IS HOW SUALLY TREATS QUEERNS. “KISS LOTS OF BOYS,” UNTRY-POP TROUBADOUR KACEY MGRAV STCTS, “OR KISS LOTS OF GIRLS, IF THAT'S SOMETHG YOU'RE TO.” THEN SHE SIMPLY MOV ON TO THE NEXT LE, ULTIMATELY ARRIVG AT THE TLE MSAGE OF SELF-ACCEPTANCE. THEY WERE REASSURG WORDS TO HEAR OM A UNTRY STAR 2013, WELL BEFORE THE YEEHAW AGENDA RENTEXTUALIZED WHAT THE GENRE ULD BE, AND FOR WHOM. THEY ALSO ST HER SOME UNTRY-RAD AIRPLAY, TRACTN MGRAV SHGGED OFF. “IT'S GONNA HAVE S OWN LIFE REGARDLS, SO I DON'T REALLY WANT TO ASK THEIR PERMISSN,” SHE SAID THEN. SHE WAS RIGHT. MGRAV HAS SCE BEE A GAY IN, LEANG TO DIS AND FULL-ON PERSEVERANCE ANTHEMS. IT ALL STARTED WH “FOLLOW YOUR ARROW,” HER EVERGREEN VATN TO LIVE HOW YOU LIVE AND LOVE WHO YOU {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “IT’S BROAD ENOUGH THAT ANYONE N UNRSTAND : ‘FOLLOW YOUR ARROW WHEREVER POTS.’ BUT THERE’S ONE MOMENT THE SONG — THAT WAS THE FIRST MOMENT A MASTREAM UNTRY SONG THAT I HAD HEARD THAT TOPIC BEG ADDRSED AT ALL. I WAS STGGLG TO E OUT TO MY PARENTS AT THE TIME. HEARG A SONG BE SUCH A BIG UNTRY H MENTN THAT YOU SHOULD CELEBRATE WHO YOU LOVE — WAS JT A NOD OM A STRAIGHT ALLY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATED.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “I ACTUALLY DIDN’T LIKE UNTRY MIC FOR A REALLY LONG TIME, HONTLY, BEE DIDN’T FEEL LIKE A SPACE WHERE A WOMAN OF LOR WHO INTIFIED AS QUEER ULD ACTUALLY F . WHEN I HEARD THAT LE, I WAS UGHT OFF GUARD. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT I HEARD SOME SORT OF QUEER ALLYSHIP SI OF A SONG THAT WAS THE UNTRY GENRE. THAT CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT MEANS TO BE A SONGWRER.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROBYN: “DANCG ON MY OWN”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROBYN IS A DANCE-FLOOR PHOENIX. THE SWEDISH SGER BEGAN HER REER THE ’90S, RELEASG HER BUT ALBUM ROBYN IS HERE 1995 AT THE AGE OF 16. AFTER DROPPG HER GRAMMY-NOMATED FOURTH LP, THE EPONYMO ROBYN, SHE LEFT THE SCENE FOR FIVE YEARS, ONLY TO SHAKE THE WORLD OF POP TO S RE WHEN SHE RETURNED. BODY TALK, A TRILOGY OF MI-ALBUMS OUT 2010, FEATURED WHAT WOULD BEE SOME OF ROBYN’S MOST INIC STATI SGL: “HANG WH ME,” “INSTCTIBLE,” AND OF URSE, HER LONOME OP “DANCG ON MY OWN.” THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SONG’S TREMBLG BASSLE AND SPARSE MELODY ECHO S LYRICS ABOUT UTTER ISOLATN. LONELS IS A UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE, BUT FOR MANY QUEER PEOPLE, THAT TRMA IS LLECTIVE: SOME ARE SHUNNED BY IENDS AND FAY SIMPLY FOR BEG WHO THEY ARE, FORCED TO SEEK NNECTN ELSEWHERE. NIGHTLIFE HAS LONG BEEN A GATHERG PLACE FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE — BEFORE WE ULD BE OPEN OUR DAILY LIV, WE FOUND EACH OTHER THE MTY, ANONYMO HAZE OF THE BAR. “DANCG ON MY OWN” PTUR THIS PERFECTLY AND HAS SCE BEEN GRAED THE MEMORI OF A GENERATN OF LGBTQ+ {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “ROBYN IS EVERYTHG. SHE’S THE BEGNG AND THE END. SHE’S THE MIDDLE. SHE’S EVERYTHG. ‘DANCG ON MY OWN’ WILL WRECK YOU, PULL YOU BACK TOGETHER. IT WILL GET YOU THROUGH A HEARTBREAK. IT WILL GET YOU THROUGH YOUR TAX, BCH. IT WILL GET YOU THROUGH THE MOMENT. ROBYN IS EVERYTHG.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “HOW MANY OF HAVE JT BEEN WALKG DOWN THE STREET AND SOMEONE GAWKS AT FOR WHAT WE HAVE ON OR QUTNS WHY? ‘WHY ARE YOU WEARG THOSE JEANS?’ OR ‘WHY ARE YOU WEARG THAT SHIRT?’ OR ‘WHY ARE YOU WEARG THAT TOP?’ IN A CLUB, YOU’RE ABLE TO FULLY EXPRS YOURSELF A WAY WHERE YOU N PRENT HOW YOU WANT TO PRENT WH LIKE-MD PEOPLE. THE MUNY IS THERE AND THE MIC IS GOG. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG SPIRUAL THAT HAPPENS THE CLUB.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS YEAR, EXPRS YOUR SELF-RE AND CELEBRATE PRI MDFULLY. VIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}PRI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

BORN THIS WAYLADY GAGATRACK 2 ON BORN THIS WAY PRODUCED BYLADY GAGA, JEPPE LRSEN & 2 MORE“BORN THIS WAY” IS ABOUT SELF-LIBERATN, AND LOVG EVERY PART OF YOURSELF, NO MATTER YOUR RACE, GENR, OR SEXUALY; THE SONG WAS RELEASED AS THE LEAD SGLE OM THE… READ MORE FEB. 11, 20113 VIEWERS638.2K VIEWS153 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSESPAñOLPORTUGUêSHRVATSKIFRANçAISBORN THIS WAY LYRICS[INTRO]IT DON'T MATTER IF YOU LOVE HIMOR PAL "H-I-M" (M, M, M, M)JT PUT YOUR PAWS UP'CSE YOU WERE BORN THIS WAY, BABY[VERSE 1]MY MAMA TOLD ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG"WE ARE ALL BORN SUPERSTARS"SHE ROLLED MY HAIR AND PUT MY LIPSTICK ONIN THE GLASS OF HER BOUDOIR[PRE-CHOS]THERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH LOVG WHO YOU ARESHE SAID, "CSE HE MA YOU PERFECT, BABE"SO HOLD YOUR HEAD UP, GIRL, AND YOU'LL GO FARLISTEN TO ME WHEN I SAY[CHOS]I'M BETIFUL MY WAY'CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAKI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAYDON'T HI YOURSELF REGRETJT LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SETI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYRIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[POST-CHOS]DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENDON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENDON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENDON'T BE (DON'T BE, DON'T BE)[VERSE 2]GIVE YOURSELF PNCE AND LOVE YOUR IENDSSUBWAY KID, REJOICE YOUR TTHIN THE RELIGN OF THE SECUREI MT BE MYSELF, RPECT MY YOUTH[PRE-CHOS]A DIFFERENT LOVER IS NOT A SBELIEVE PAL H-I-M, HEY-HEY-HEYI LOVE MY LIFE, I LOVE THIS RERD ANDMI AMORE VOLE FE YAH (SAME DNA)[CHOS]I'M BETIFUL MY WAY'CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAKI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAYDON'T HI YOURSELF REGRETJT LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SETI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYRIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY[INTERLU](WAY)DON'T BE, DON'T BE, DON'T BE, D-(WAY)CHURCH[BREAKDOWN]DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEENWHETHER YOU'RE BROKE OR EVERGREENYOU'RE BLACK, WHE, BEIGE, CHOLO SCENTYOU'RE LEBANE, YOU'RE ORIENTWHETHER LIFE'S DISABILILEFT YOU OUTST, BULLIED, OR TEASEDREJOICE AND LOVE YOURSELF TODAY'CSE BABY, YOU WERE BORN THIS WAY[CHOS]NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BILBIAN, TRANSGENR LIFEI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN TO SURVIVENO MATTER BLACK, WHE, OR BEIGECHOLA OR ORIENT MAI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN TO BE BRAVE!I'M BETIFUL MY WAY'CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAK ('CSE GOD MAK NO MISTAK)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY (RIGHT TRACK, BABY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)DON'T HI YOURSELF REGRETJT LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SET (LOVE YOURSELF, AND YOU'RE SET)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY (RIGHT TRACK, BABY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, YEAHOOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY (BORN THIS WAY)OOH, THERE A'T NO OTHER WAYBABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAYI'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY[POST-CHOS]I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (HEY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABYI WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (BORN THIS WAY, HEY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (HEY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY (I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY)I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY (RIGHT TRACK, BABY)I WAS BORN THIS WAY, HEY[OUTRO]SAME DNA (HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY)BUT BORN THIS WAY (HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY)SAME DNA (HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY)BUT BORN THIS WAY (HEY, HEY, HEY)77EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

For over a , Stefani Joanne Angela Germanotta, Lady Gaga for short, has had one clear objective md: to promote the gay agenda. And The Lady is the first one to adm : one of her first ver story terviews (Out, September 2009), Gaga said that she wanted to “ject gay culture to the mastream. ” But now, seems, Mother Monster has lated her own ambns for a queerer world: she has managed to turn an epic pillar of queer culture – a classic mil movie whose ma character has been portrayed by both Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand – to an even gayer film.

When the vio for her send sgle “Poker Face” beat out Beyoncé’s “Sgle Ladi” and won Internatnal Vio of the Year at Canada’s MuchMic Vio Awards, Gaga gave a short, sweet, and scere acceptance speech: she gave thanks “to God and the gays, ” sendg the LGBTQ muny a sign of what was to e. In that gaylaxy far, far away, when same-sex unns still felt like an impossible dream, and LGBTQ Amerins uldn’t serve openly the ary, the then-23-year-old overt-the-top sger went to Washgton, D. For the much anticipated follow-up to her massively succsful first stud album The Fame (and s subsequent multi-Grammy-wng reissu), Gaga stck a bs al wh Target: An exclive edn of her sophomore album, Born This Way, wh remix and addnal stud cuts, to be sold exclively by the retailer.

“Part of my al wh Target is that they have to start affiliatg themselv wh LGBT chary groups and beg to reform and make amends for the mistak they’ve ma the past… our relatnship is hged upon their reform the pany to support the gay muny and to reem the mistak they’ve ma supportg those groups, ” she told Billboard an terview Febary, 2011. It stantly beme a favore Gay Pri classic: “No matter gay, straight, or bi/ Lbian, transgenr life/ I’m on the right track, baby/ I was born to survive” were words that beme as rad mastream as possible.

NO MATTER GAY STRAIGHT OR BI LYRICS

Ls than a year later, Rsia’s lower hoe of parliament passed a siar law that crimalized any form of pro-gay speech or public display of affectn anywhere the untry, and Mother got pissed. ” She then picked up and held like a trophy as more than 15, 000 ncertgoers screamed pure gay ecstasy at the Rogers Arena Vanuver, Canada.

“I make a joke sometim that behd every female in is a gay man and I really wouldn’t be here whout the gay muny and what they have tght me about love and acceptance and bravery, ” Lady Gaga said an terview wh The Playlist, about A Star Is Born. No matter gay, straight, or biLbian, transgenred lifeI’m on the right track babyI was born to surviveNo matter black, whe or beigeChola or orient maI’m on the right track babyI was born to be brave. (SOUNDBITE OF SUPER BOWL LI TELECAST)LADY GAGA: (Sgg) No matter gay, straight or bi, lbian, transgenr life - I'm on the right track, baby.

But Tracy Young, a celebry DJ who plays at gay parti and Pri events around the untry, says that's not the only reason people still love the YOUNG: I thk she h Young, a lbian, says anyone who has stggled to e to terms wh their sexual inty rponds to those lyrics - born this way. I was born this Even though Elton John hailed "Born This Way" as the new gay anthem when first me out, there was also a backlash agast . " She was even acced of explog her gay fan base, a charge mic wrer John Savage SAVAGE: Obvly, Lady Gaga wanted to say somethg about her gay dience and what she thought about the posn of gay people.

“NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT OR BI, LBIAN, TRANSGENRED LIFE, I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE.”

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WAS BORN THIS WAY")VALENTINO: (Sgg) Jt bee I'm happy - happy - I'm reee - reee - and I'm gay - gay - y, I'm gay, a't a flt. (SOUNDBITE OF RADIO SHOW, "THE HOWARD STERN SHOW")LADY GAGA: There's a preacher, Carl Bean, Los Angel, and I believe he's gay. He says he had always known that he was gay, so felt like a perfect I always say the lyric found me, and was very Bean, now a retired pastor, was the founr of Uny Fellowship Church.

No As much as "Born This Way" has been embraced as a gay anthem, Tim Cox says 's also an anthem for anyone who feels outsi the mastream. Give yourself pnce and love your iendsSubway kid, rejoice your tthIn the relign of the secureI mt be myself, rpect my youthA different lover is not a sBelieve pal H-I-M (hey, hey, hey)I love my life, I love this rerd andMi amore vole fe yah (same DNA)I'm betiful my way'Cse God mak no mistakI'm on the right track, babyI was born this wayDon't hi yourself regretJt love yourself and you're setI'm on the right track, babyI was born this wayOoh, there a't no other wayBaby, I was born this wayBaby, I was born this wayOoh, there a't no other wayBaby, I was born this wayI'm on the right track, babyI was born this wayDon't be a drag, jt be a queenWhether you're broke or evergreenYou're black, whe, beige, chola scentYou're Lebane, you're orientWhether life's disabiliLeft you outst, bullied or teasedRejoice and love yourself today'Cse baby, you were born this wayNo matter gay, straight or biLbian, transgenred lifeI'm on the right track, babyI was born to surviveNo matter black, whe or beigeChola or orient maI'm on the right track, babyI was born to be braveI'm betiful my way'Cse God mak no mistakI'm on the right track, babyI was born this wayDon't hi yourself regretJt love yourself and you're setI'm on the right track, babyI was born this wayOoh, there a't no other wayBaby, I was born this wayBaby, I was born this wayOoh, there a't no other wayBaby, I was born this wayI'm on the right track, babyI was born this wayI was born this way, hey! Seja pnte nsigo e ame os ss amigosCriança metropolana, exalte a sua verdaNa religião da segurançaDevo ser mma, rpear mha juventuUm amor diferente não é pedoAcrede N-E-L-E letra maiúscula (ei, ei, ei)Eu amo mha vida, amo sa nção eM amor precisa fé (mmo DNA)Eu sou lda do m jeoPois Ds não ete errosEstou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci sse jeoNão se nda atrás arrependimentosApenas ame a si mma e você tará preparadaEu tou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci sse jeoOoh, não tem outro jeoM bem, nasci sse jeoM bem, nasci sse jeoOoh, não há outro jeoM bem, nasci sse jeoEu tou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci sse jeoNão seja uma personagem, só seja uma rahaMmo você sendo sem grana ou riçoVocê sendo preto, bran, pardo ou origem lataVocê sendo libanês ou orientalMmo que as ficiências da vidaTe façam sentir slodo, perseguido ou importunadoExalte e ame a si mmo hojePois, m bem, você nasc sse jeoNão importa se você é gay, hétero ou biLésbi, transgêneroEstou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci para sobreviverNão importa se você é preto, bran ou pardoLato ou vdo do orienteEstou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci para ter ragemEu sou lda do m jeoPois Ds não ete errosEstou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci sse jeoNão se nda atrás arrependimentosApenas ame a si mma e você tará preparadaEu tou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci sse jeoOoh, não tem outro jeoM bem, nasci sse jeoM bem, nasci sse jeoOoh, não há outro jeoM bem, nasci sse jeoEu tou no mho certo, m bemEu nasci sse jeoEu nasci sse jeo, ei!

But bar men ty meat drs, 's all pretty the last episo, the prenters of 'The One Show' performed Lady Gaga's self-acceptance anthem var versns of the star's one thg was missg, the le om the chos, 'No matter gay, straight, or bi, lbian, transgenred life' the people were not havg many people (probably cludg Lady Gaga) 'Born This Way' largely centers around sexualy and personal pri, so takg the lyrics out arguably unrm the msage of the song as a BBC rpond to the allegatns a statement. “No matter gay, straight, or bi, lbian, transgenred life, I’m on the right track, baby, ” Gaga sgs—and Siwa, her later posts nfirmed, was announcg herself as beg somewhere on that list outsi of “straight. Gaga’s lyrics about gay acceptance of urse ved homophobic outrage, but outsi of the notor Wtboro Baptist Church and censors Malaysia, the loust knocks on the song didn’t e om nservativ.

LADY GAGA SAYS U.S. “BETTER NOT MS WH GAY MARRIAGE” AT CHROMATI BALL

But the aln she sang about proved to be agile—if ever really existed at the 20-year-old NYU dropout Stefani Germanotta took on the name Lady Gaga around 2007, some of the early, pivotal gigs she booked were at gay clubs. Its first l go: “I’m walkg through life nature’s disguise / You lgh at me and you cricize ’e I’m happy, reee and gay / Y, I’m gay.

LADY GAGA'S 'BORN THIS WAY': THE NEW GAY ANTHEM?'ANYTHG SHE SAYS, I THK, WILL ALWAYS BE THE GAY ANTHEM,' SAYS EDIAN GABE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MICBY JOCELYN VENAFEBARY 11, 2011/3:09 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY JOCELYN VENAFEBARY 11, 2011 / 3:09 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"LADY GAGA'S 'BORN THIS WAY': THE NEW GAY ANTHEM?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2011-02-11T20:09:25.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2011-02-11T20:09:25.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"JOCELYN VENA","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH LYRICS LIKE "DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEEN" AND "NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT OR BI/ LBIAN, TRANSGENRED LIFE/ I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY/ I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE," 'S CLEAR THAT [ARTIST ID="3061469"]GAGA[/ARTIST] IS SGG FOR THOSE THE LGBT MUNY WHO FEEL DISENANCHISED ON HER NEW TRACK "[ARTICLE ID="1657726"]BORN THIS WAY[/ARTICLE]." PERHAPS WAS NO MISTAKE THAT GAGA BUTED THE CLUB-IENDLY TRACK ON A FRIDAY, THE DAY MANY PEOPLE HEAD OUT ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, AS THOSE THE LGBT MUNY MAKE THEIR FRIDAY NIGHT PLANS, MTV NEWS FOUND OUT WHAT SOME PROMENT PROFSNALS THE MUNY THK ABOUT THE TRACK AND GOT THEIR ANSWERS TO THE QUTN: IS THIS THE NEW GAY ANTHEM?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"TYPILLY, GAY ANTHEMS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BY GAY PEOPLE, NOT FOR GAY PEOPLE. THE EXPLICLY PRO-GAY SENTIMENT IS SOMETHG RELATIVELY NEW TO MAJOR-LABEL POP (PECIALLY MAJOR-LABEL POP LNCHG A MUCH-ANTICIPATED ALBUM BY ARGUABLY THE MOST RELEVANT POP STAR THE WORLD RIGHT NOW)," EXPLAED RICH JUZWIAK, THOR OF THE POP-CULTURE FOURFOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I HAVE MIXED FEELGS ABOUT THE NFLATN OF ACTIVISM AND MARKETG HERENT A PIECE OF MERCE LIKE 'BORN THIS WAY,' BUT ULTIMATELY, I THK GAGA'S HEART IS THE RIGHT PLACE. IT'S PRETTY BOLD OF HER, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BEG UTTERLY BENEFICIAL TO HER REER AND EXPOSURE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LOGO'S EDOR JOHN POLLY NOTED THAT THE SONG HAS ALL THE RIGHT ELEMENTS TO BE ADOPTED AS THE ANTHEM FOR 2011. "ITS BIG, 'S LOUD, 'S FUN!" HE SAID. "IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE MASHED UP A ZILLN MIRRORS A DRAG QUEEN'S CLOSET AND THEN SHOT OUT OF A SEQU NNON ... SUBTLE! SUBTLE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THIS ONE HAS MORE [GAY ANTHEM ELEMENTS] THAN MOST," HE NTUED. "IT LLS OUT EVERY LOR OF THE RABOW, LIKE SPECIFILLY, VOLLY. EVERYTHG'S THERE. IT'S GOT ALL AND 'S GOT A BEAT. IT'S FAIAR, BUT 'S NEW. IT'S GAGA. SHE'S GOT SOMETHG THERE FOR EVERYONE, SO HOPEFULLY PEOPLE ARE TO ... 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In a 2016 Vice terview, Bean explaed how his openns was—maybe untertuively, given how much gay rights have progrsed sce then—of s era:At the time, what the disc jockeys ed as “msage mic” was pretty big, and that’s what I wanted to do. Taylor Swift’s 2019 queer-pri anthem, “You Need to Calm Down, ” still feels tged wh awkwardns for the way equat vilent homophob wh the mere haters of Swift’s mic.

Madonna’s 2019 track “Killers Who Are Partyg” prents the Queen of Pop as relevant to the plights of gay people, Ains, Mlims, Israelis, Native Amerins, and rape victims.

An stant classic, a landmark LGBTQ pop cultue, and an absolutely timels queer anthem — released a time when not everyone was ready to hear “gay, ” “bi, ” “lbian” and “transgenr” on mastream pop rad. If you were lookg for another reason to crown Lady Gaga as a queer in — bis her forthg role as sapphic supervilla Harley Qun, a disgraphy that has lnched untls gay awakengs, and her long history of vol support for LGBTQ+ rights — she jt gave to you at a ncert Washgton, D.

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“Shallow” sger recemented her stat as a gay in and champn for equaly on Monday when she took a moment to speak out about recent Supreme Court cisns durg a ncert the natn’s kickg off the U. Leg of the Chromati Ball at Natnals Park, a baseball stadium the pal cy, Gaga took a moment durg a long piano-acpanied troductn to her h “Born This Way” to say, “They better not ms wh gay marriage this untry! In the opn that overturned the feral right to an abortn, Jtice Clarence Thomas also wrote that s like Obergefell and Lawrence, the latter of which crimalized gay sex, were also up for rensiratn.

AROUND SOUTHEAST ASIA, LADY GAGA SONG AIRED WHOUT PRO-GAY LYRICS

As she clumsily put : “No matter gay, straight or bi, lbian, transgenred life: I’m on the right track, I was born to survive.

At 30, I am still told most days on social media that I’ve chosen to be trans for attentn, bee I’m a nfed gay man, bee I’m mad or bee I’m sexually the face of such hostily, the mand that you nstantly jtify yourself be exhstg. Wh lyrics like "Don't be a drag, jt be a queen" and "No matter gay, straight or bi/ Lbian, transgenred life/ I'm on the right track, baby/ I was born to survive, " 's clear that [artist id="3061469"]Gaga[/artist] is sgg for those the LGBT muny who feel disenanchised on her new track "[article id="1657726"]Born This Way[/article]. " Perhaps was no mistake that Gaga buted the club-iendly track on a Friday, the day many people head out on the, as those the LGBT muny make their Friday night plans, MTV News found out what some proment profsnals the muny thk about the track and got their answers to the qutn: Is this the new gay anthem?

THE 10 GREATT QUEER ANTHEMS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTHERE'S A WHOLE NEW GENERATN OF BOPS TO DISCS. 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THE QUARTET MET ON A RECENT ZOOM LL TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE THE 10 GREATT LGBTQ+ ANTHEMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR, AND PRR TO THE NVERSATN, THE ARTISTS WERE ASKED TO PREPARE THEIR PICKS FOR WHAT THEY NSIRED THE MOST CLUB-IMMACULATE OR CULTURALLY IMPACTFUL SONGS OF THE LAST TWO S. THE TRACKS ULD BE BY ANY ARTIST, OM ANYWHERE, AND ONLY NEED TO BE RELEASED AFTER THE YEAR 2000. THE TENTN WAS TO E THE SUGGTNS TO CRAFT A PREHENSIVE PLAYLIST SHOWSG THE MIC THAT F THE MUNY AND SOUNDTRACKS S SPAC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INEVABLY, THE PROMPT’S OPEN-END NATURE GAVE WAY TO MORE QUTNS: WHAT EXACTLY IS A “QUEER ANTHEM”? 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ANY ATTEMPT TO PILE AN EXHSTIVE LIST OF THIS KD IS GHT, SUBJECT TO PERSONAL OPNS AND UNIQUE EXPERIENC — AND SO, RATHER THAN A RANKED ARRANGEMENT, WE ORRED ACRDG TO THE NATURAL FLOW OF THE DISCSN. AS THE MICIANS NDIDLY SHARED THEIR OWN ASSOCIATNS WH EACH SONG, OFTEN A TRACK’S SIGNIFINCE WAS EXTRIBLY ENTANGLED WH THE NTEXT OF S RELEASE, SUCH AS THE SHOCKWAVE SENT WHEN FRANK OCEAN ME OUT 2012, OR THE RABIDLY HOMOPHOBIC NTROVERSY THAT EMERGED RPONSE TO LIL NAS X’S “MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME).” AND OTHER TIM, RATHER THAN INTIFYG A SONG’S PARTICULAR MEANG THROUGH S LYRICS OR VISUALS, WAS SELECTED FIRSTLY FOR S SOUND, HOW HAD THE SGULAR ABILY TO MOMENTARILY SPEND TIME AND REALY, TO GUI IENDS AND CHOSEN FAY TO EACH OTHER THE SEETHG DARKNS OF A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KICKG OFF MTV NEWS’S QUEER MIC WEEK, A PRI CELEBRATN OF THE LGBTQ+ ARTISTS AND ALLI MAKG THE MIC THAT MATTERS, THE LIST BELOW MONSTRAT HOW ELIVE AND BROAD THE NCEPT OF A QUEER ANTHEM IS, PART BEE THE MUNY SELF IS SO VIBRANT AND DIVERSE. NO, THIS LIST IS NOT FIVE, BUT IS A GTURE TOWARDS FN, BY AND FOR OURSELV. IN THAT SENSE, CERTA THEM DID EMERGE THE URSE OF OUR NVERSATN: A SIRE TO CREATE SPAC THAT LIBERATE AND NNECT, A NEED TO TELL ONE’S OWN STORY THROUGH ART, AND PERHAPS MOST OF ALL, AN HONT APPRECIATN FOR THE POWER OF A GOOD BOP. MIC HAS TRANSFORMED AND EVOLVED EVEN WH THE RELATIVELY SMALL SPE OF THE LAST TWO S, JT LIKE QUEERNS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FRANK OCEAN: “CHANEL”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN FRANK OCEAN DROPPED “CHANEL” EARLY 2017, FANS IMMEDIATELY HAILED AS A BISEXUAL ANTHEM. THE SONG ARRIVED SHORTLY AFTER BLON, THE R&B FUTURIST’S MOST OUTWARDLY QUEER PROJECT YET, AND FIVE YEARS AFTER HE FIRST ME OUT VIA A TUMBLR NOTE. YET “CHANEL”’S OPENG FELT PECIALLY BOLD. “MY GUY PRETTY LIKE A GIRL,” OCEAN SGS OVER A MUDDY PIANO SAMPLE, “AND HE GOT FIGHT STORI TO TELL.” HE SCRIB A ROMANTIC PARTNER WHO EXISTS BOTH FEME AND MASCULE REALMS AS WELL AS HIS ATTRACTN TO BOTH, A DUALY HE EPOMIZ ON THE SONG’S REPEATED HOOK: “I SEE BOTH SIS LIKE CHANEL.” AS HE REUNTS HIS OWN SH-FILLED POCKETS AND THOANDS DELTA CRED, OCEAN TOASTS TO HAVG ALL — A BANNER MOMENT FOR BISEXUAL VISIBILY WRAPPED A MASSIVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “I GREW UP WH A LOT OF TOXIC REPRENTATNS OF BISEXUALY MEDIA AND A LOT OF FETISHIZATN AROUND WHAT I EVENTUALLY INTIFIED TO BE MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN. … FOR HIM AND HIS EXPRSN OF HIS INTY TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE PEOPLE AROUND ME MA ME FEEL LS WEIRD AND LS STRANGE MY SK AS I WAS TRYG TO NAVIGATE WHAT I WANTED TO INTIFY AS. THAT’S ALSO PART OF QUEER ANTHEMS: HELPG PEOPLE UNRSTAND THE QUEER EXPERIENCE AND BRGG THAT TO THE FOREONT OF WHAT PEOPLE PAY ATTENTN TO.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “TO HAVE LIVED THROUGH THE ENTIRE WORLD JT WRAPPG THEIR ARMS AROUND HIM AND G TOGETHER TO SAY, ‘YOU’RE ONE OF THE BADST BCH OUT; WE GOT YOU NO MATTER WHAT,’ AND THEN TO SEE THAT FLOWERG OF HIM PUBLICLY EXPRSG QUEER LOVE, WAS AN AWOME MOMENT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIL NAS X: “MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME)”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STAN TWTER GAVE LIL NAS X A PLATFORM. “OLD TOWN ROAD” MA HIM A STAR. BUT ONLY “MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME)” LET HIM GIVE SATAN A LAP DANCE. THE POP PROVOTR’S FIERY VISN OF QUEER SIRE QUICKLY BEME THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT MIC VIO OF 2021, AMPLIFIED BY A HOT, HEAVY, CROTCH-GRABBY PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. AT ONE POT, A BACKUP DANCER LICKS HIS NECK BEFORE HE ADMS, “I WANNA FUCK THE ON I ENVY.” SPECTACLE IS THE POT — GAY SEXUALY IS RARELY CENTERED THIS PROMENTLY ON WORK TELEVISN — AND THE ARTIST’S LYRICS PROVI THE FOUNDATN. ON THE SONG HE NAMED AFTER HIMSELF, MONTERO P FOR SOMEONE WH MASCULE PRONOUNS. HE ADMTED THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BRAVE ENOUGH TO DO THAT AS A TEENAGER. BUT NOW? “THIS WILL OPEN DOORS FOR OTHER QUEER PEOPLE TO SIMPLY EXIST,” HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A BLACK GAY MAN AS CELEBRATED AS LIL NAS X HAS BEEN JT FOR BEG SO OPENLY GAY. WHAT A BETIFUL STORY. THE GAY STORYLE ALWAYS ENDS WH ONE DYG OR ONE OF GETTG SICK OR ONE OF GOG OFF TO WAR. IT’S LIKE, NO, BCH. WE’RE HAPPY! AND WE HAVE REALLY GREAT LIV.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TROYE SIVAN: “BLOOM”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE TROYE SIVAN BEME A STADIUM-FILLG TERNATNAL POP STAR, HIS NDID VLOGS ABOUT LIFE AS A TEEN GAED HIM A FAN BASE. SIVAN REPRENTS A NEW GENERATN OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH WHOSE EXPERIENC AND UNRSTANDG ARE BEG SHAPED PART BY S REPRENTATN ONLE: HE ME OUT PUBLICLY A VIO POSTED TO YOUTUBE 2013 (THOUGH HE HAD TOLD HIS FAY PRIVATE THREE YEARS PRR), AN ACT THAT HAS SPIRED MANY YOUNG FANS TO DO THE SAME. THE MIC AND ACTG REERS HE’S VELOPED SCE HAVE ALWAYS CHAMPNED QUEER INTY. HIS MIC VIOS OFTEN PICT GAY RELATNSHIPS WHILE HIS LYRICS EMPLOY MASCULE PRONOUNS AND BRAVELY SPEAKG TO SAME-GENR LOVE, BUT PERHAPS NONE MORE EXPLICLY OR TO AS MUCH FANFARE THAN THOSE THE FLOWERY TRACK “BLOOM.” THE SONG WAS PRAISED AS A “BOTTOMG ANTHEM” FOR S LYRICS THAT ALLUD TO A FANTASY PLAYED OUT BETWEEN TWO MEN (“PUT GAS TO THE MOTOR / AND, BOY, I'LL MEET YOU RIGHT THERE / WE'LL RI THE ROLLERASTER”). THE SONG’S SUBJECT MATTER WAS SEEMGLY NFIRMED BY SIVAN HIMSELF WH A SCE-LETED TWEET THAT READ #BOPSABOUTBOTTOMG, WHICH IS A BIG AL, GIVEN THAT THE SEX ACT IS STILL STIGMATIZED EVEN WH THE GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “I WATCHED HIS G-OUT VIO. THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST EXPERIENC THAT I VIVIDLY REMEMBER SEEG SOMEBODY TALKG ABOUT G OUT. I WAS LIKE, ‘OH, WOW, THIS PERSON THAT I REALLY LOOK UP TO IS ALSO GAY. MAYBE I’M GAY?’”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT ‘BLOOMG’ MEANT AT THE TIME, AND THEN SOMEONE TOLD ME, AND ALL ME FULL CIRCLE. I LOVED THE MIC VIO BEE WAS JT A BUNCH OF FLOWERS OPENG UP, WHICH WAS VERY, VERY CUTE AND MA SENSE AS A METAPHOR.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LADY GAGA: “BORN THIS WAY”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“MY MOMMA TOLD ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG, WE ARE ALL BORN SUPERSTARS.” SO BEGS THE TLE TRACK OF LADY GAGA’S 2011 ALBUM BORN THIS WAY, HER DANCE-POP VOTNAL TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. RIDG THE HIGH OF HER NEWFOUND STARDOM AFTER TWO H POP RERDS, MOTHER MONSTER CHANNELED THE NICKNAME BTOWED UPON HER BY FANS AND CRAFTED A DANCE ALBUM THAT WOULD FORT MARGALIZED LTLE MONSTERS AROUND THE WORLD. TODAY, ’S EASY TO SFF AT THE TRACK’S DIRECT LL-OUTS TO S TARGET DIENCE (“NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BI / LBIAN, TRANSGENR LIFE / I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY, I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE”). BUT 2011, THE SONG WAS A RONANT RALLY CRY — AND THE EXACT SORT OF SOUNDTRACK LGBTQ+ AMERINS NEED ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE REPEAL OF THE HOMOPHOBIC LAW DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL AND THE LEGALIZATN OF MARRIAGE EQUALY NATNWI. IT ALSO PROVED THAT POP MIC N SOUND GOOD AND SPIRE SOCIAL GOOD. GAGA HERSELF TOOK HER ACTIVISM TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY TABLISHG THE BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATN, WHICH SUPPORTS THE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. THE WAYS WHICH WE TALK ABOUT QUEER INTI HAVE EVOLVED SCE “BORN THIS WAY,” BUT NO MATTER WHAT, GAGA REASSUR WE’RE “ON THE RIGHT TRACK.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “IT JT FEELS SO GOOD. IT’S SO CLIVE, ’S SO WARM, ’S SO FUZZY. YOU HEAR THAT TRACK, AND DON’T MATTER WHERE YOU’RE AT. THE PARA IS GOG, THE FLAGS ARE FLYG, AND YOU’RE JT LIKE, ‘Y, I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK! Y, GAGA!’{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “ANY BIG MASTREAM SONG ABOUT SEXUAL INTY MOV THE NEEDLE. THIS SONG DID THAT A BIG WAY, BEE PEOPLE WOULD ARGUE THE FACT THAT SEXUAL INTY IS A CHOICE — ’S NOT A CHOICE. I WAS BORN THIS WAY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “THE SPEAKG UP IS FELY SOMETHG THAT AS A YOUNG QUEER PERSON I APPRECIATED OM THE PEOPLE I LOOKED UP TO BEE I DIDN’T GROW UP AROUND A LOT OF PEOPLE MY IMMEDIATE MUNY THAT WERE TALKG ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL INTY OR THEIR GENR INTY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHRISTA AGUILERA, LIL’ KIM, MýA, P!NK: “LADY MARMALA”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALL-STAR DIVA TEAM-UPS DON’T ALWAYS BEE QUEER ANTHEMS, BUT THE 2001 “LADY MARMALA” UPDATE SEEMED PREORDAED FOR SUCCS. IT WAS ANCHORED TO THE MOUL ROUGE! SOUNDTRACK; FEATURED FOUR DIVAS PERFORMG AT THE TOP OF THEIR RPECTIVE GAM; AND CCIALLY, S VIO FOUND THEM GLAMMED UP THEIR BURLQUE BT AND CHEWG SCENERY. THE PAST 20 YEARS HAVE MA THE TUNE, ORIGALLY MA FAMO BY LABELLE 1974, A KARAOKE SENTIAL, A DRAG-SHOW STAPLE, AND A REER HIGHLIGHT FOR CHRISTA AGUILERA, LIL’ KIM, MýA, AND P!NK (AS WELL AS -PRODUCER MISSY ELLTT). THE BED VOL ELECTRICY ULD LIGHT A BARET, AND THE SONG’S PLAYFUL APPROACH TO SEXUALY REMAS S SEND-BT HOOK — ONLY TOPPED BY THAT INIC, IMMORTAL FRENCH REA. (IT MEANS, OF URSE, “DO YOU WANT TO SLEEP WH ME?”){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “I RECENTLY SAW A DRAG SHOW WHERE THIS DRAG QUEEN PERFORMED ‘LADY MARMALA,’ AND WAS THE MOST JOYO EXPERIENCE. YOU SEE THE DRAG QUEENS PLETELY EMBRACG FEMY, AND ’S SO BETIFUL TO WATCH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “IF ANYONE IS WH THEIR IENDS AND HEARS THIS SONG, MY FAVORE PART ABOUT THAT IS EVERYONE PICKS A PERSON. EHER YOU’RE P!NK, OR YOU’RE CHRISTA, AND YOU ALL FD YOUR SPOTS AND YOU GET YOUR PLAC, AND YOU GO FOR .”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “I THK TO BE A TE DIVA, YOU ALSO HAVE TO HAVE TRANSFORMED THE CULTURE A B YOUR TIME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIG FREEDIA: “Y’ALL GET BACK NOW”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE QUEEN DIVA, YOU BT-UH BELIEVE-UH — BIG FREEDIA IS ARGUABLY A LEGEND WH THE NEW ORLEANS BOUNCE SCENE. BOUNCE IS QUTSENTIALLY NOLA, PART FOR S LL-AND-RPONSE VOLS FLUENCED BY MARDI GRAS CHANTS, BUT ALSO FOR S WELG ATTU TOWARDS VISIBLY QUEER PERFORMERS S CULTURE, OF WHICH THE LOUISIANA CY HAS A RICH HISTORY. SCE BEGNG HER REER THE ’90S, FREEDIA HAS HELPED BRG THE GENRE OM THE CLUB UNRGROUND TO THE MASTREAM. SHE ME TO SLAY WHEN SHE LENT HER SPOKEN-WORD STYLGS TO BEYONCé’S SONG “FORMATN” AND HAS ALSO NTRIBUTED VOLS TO TRACKS BY DRAKE, KHA, AND EVEN REBEC BLACK. BUT THIS TRANSN OM MARGAL ART FORM TO MIC’S EVERYDAY LARGELY BEGAN WH THE RELEASE OF “Y’ALL GET BACK NOW,” THE SLAMMG BREAKOUT SGLE OFF HER 2010 BUT ALBUM BIG FREEDIA HZ VOL. 1. THE LEAD TRACK ENPSULATED HER MILY WH S REPETIVE SHOUT-SUNG VOLS AND MIC VIO THAT FEATURED GODZILLA-SIZED DANCERS DOMATG A CYSPE WH THEIR WIGGLY, GYRATG BUTTS. THE WORD “TWERK” SELF WAS POPULARIZED THANKS TO FREEDIA’S AMBASSADORSHIP, AND SHE HOLDS THE GUNS WORLD RERD FOR THE MOST PEOPLE TWERKG SIMULTANEOLY — 406 {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “IF WE’RE TALKG ABOUT INS, BIG FREEDIA SHOULD BE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “FREEDIA’S STAR HAS REALLY BEEN ON THE RISE THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND SHE FELY PAVED THE WAY FOR A LOT OF . SHE’S ALWAYS REALLY SPIRATNAL.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “I’M NOT A VERY FEME-PRENTG LBIAN, BUT IF ANYBODY ULD MAKE ME TWERK, ’D BE BIG FREEDIA.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KG PRCS: “1950”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“ANTHEMIC” PROBABLY ISN’T THE FIRST SCRIPTOR THAT TO MD WHEN YOU THK OF KG PRCS’S “1950,” BUT IS APT. BACKED BY SWAYG STMENTALS AND LILTG LAYERED VOLS, THE SGER-SONGWRER’S BUT SGLE ANNOUNCED HER AS AN DIE-POP ARTIST TO WATCH AFTER SRED HARRY STYL’S VETED SEAL OF APPROVAL. KG PRCS, NéE MIKAELA STRS, WAS 19 YEARS OLD WHEN “1950” DROPPED, BUT THE SONG ARTFULLY ALLUS TO A TIME WHEN BEG QUEER MEANT VERT AFFAIRS AND D LANGUAGE (“I LIKE WHEN WE PLAY 1950 / SO BOLD, MAKE ‘EM KNOW THAT YOU'RE WH ME”). IT ALSO LAID A SOLID FOUNDATN FOR MORE OVERTLY SEXUALLY EMPOWERED TRACKS TO E, OFTEN RPORATG FEME PRONOUNS. WHETHER SHE’S WORSHIPPG AT THE ALTAR OF PSY OR MAKG GROWN MEN CRY WHILE FUCKG WH GENR, KG PRCS TYPIFI THE UNAPOLOGETILLY UNSUBTLE REFERENC TO QUEER SEX AND CULTURE WE’VE E TO EXPECT OM YOUNGER LGBTQ+ ARTISTS LIKE CLAIRO, GIRL RED, AND TROYE SIVAN. WHAT SETS HER APART IS HOW REFED HER ENTIRE DISGRAPHY SOUNDS, OM HER KKIT CUTS TO THE LH LBIAN PSALM THAT PUT HER ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOOM: “I WOULD PLAY HER SONGS THE R WH MY IENDS WHO ARE TOTALLY STRAIGHT, AND WE’D LISTEN TO AND BE LIKE, ‘THIS IS REALLY GAY, AND THAT’S REALLY AWOME.’ KG PRCS HAS REALLY BROUGHT WOMEN-LOVG-WOMEN RELATNSHIPS TO THIS WHOLE OTHER SENSE OF PEOPLE REALIZG, ‘THIS IS SOMETHG THAT’S GONNA HAPPEN, AND I’M NOT GONNA HI THAT ANYMORE.’{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “WE’RE SEEG THIS NEW, FUTURE GENERATN OF GEN ZERS E UP AND JT CHANGE SH. I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH BEE TO ME, FEELS LIKE A GAY GIRL GUIDG ANOTHER GIRL, POSSIBLY THE CLOSET, TO ACCEPTANCE. THAT’S SOMETHG THAT ALL OF QUEER PEOPLE N INTIFY WH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MUNA: “I KNOW A PLACE”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELECTRONIC POP BAND MUNA WROTE THE RILIENT, RELENTLSLY POSIVE “I KNOW A PLACE” SPECIFILLY TO BE A QUEER ANTHEM — AND ACTUALLY BEME ONE. THE LOS ANGEL TR BEGAN WORK ON THE VAPORO TUNE, BUILT AROUND THE POWER OF GAY CLUBS AS SANCTUMS, CELEBRATN AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE 2015. BUT THE FOLLOWG YEAR, THE HORRIFIC PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE, AT THE TIME THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY, TURNED THE SONG’S SYMBOLIC PLEAS TO “LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPON” TO IGHTENG REALI. REELG LGBTQ+ LISTENERS SOUGHT SHELTER S VIVID AND WELG EMBRACE. “DON'T YOU BE AAID OF LOVE AND AFFECTN,” VOLIST KATIE GAV SGS; SHE SOUNDS LIKE SHE’S FLOATG JT UNR THE DIS BALL, ABOVE A PATCHWORK OF OUTSTRETCHED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “I FOUND THAT SONG AT A TIME MY LIFE WHERE I REALLY NEED TO HEAR, ‘THIS ISN’T . THIS ISN’T WHERE ALL ENDS. THIS ISN’T LIFE, AND THIS IS NOT HOW HAS TO BE.’ THE SONGS FD THE PEOPLE THEY NEED TO, AND I WAS THAT PERSON AT THE TIME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYYKI BLAN: “PROTT MIC REALLY BEGS TO HELP PEOPLE BEG TO BREAK DOWN THROUGH SONG THE DIFFERENT TERSECTNS OF OUR SOCIETY. A SONG IS SIMPLE; A SONG N BE PLEX. BUT ’S THAT TRANSGRSIVE NATURE OF WHAT’S BEG SAID OR MUNITED THAT N REALLY HELP A SIMPLE WAY UNRSTAND PLEX IAS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KACEY MGRAV: “FOLLOW YOUR ARROW”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT MAK “FOLLOW YOUR ARROW” SO MONUMENTAL IS HOW SUALLY TREATS QUEERNS. “KISS LOTS OF BOYS,” UNTRY-POP TROUBADOUR KACEY MGRAV STCTS, “OR KISS LOTS OF GIRLS, IF THAT'S SOMETHG YOU'RE TO.” THEN SHE SIMPLY MOV ON TO THE NEXT LE, ULTIMATELY ARRIVG AT THE TLE MSAGE OF SELF-ACCEPTANCE. THEY WERE REASSURG WORDS TO HEAR OM A UNTRY STAR 2013, WELL BEFORE THE YEEHAW AGENDA RENTEXTUALIZED WHAT THE GENRE ULD BE, AND FOR WHOM. THEY ALSO ST HER SOME UNTRY-RAD AIRPLAY, TRACTN MGRAV SHGGED OFF. “IT'S GONNA HAVE S OWN LIFE REGARDLS, SO I DON'T REALLY WANT TO ASK THEIR PERMISSN,” SHE SAID THEN. SHE WAS RIGHT. MGRAV HAS SCE BEE A GAY IN, LEANG TO DIS AND FULL-ON PERSEVERANCE ANTHEMS. IT ALL STARTED WH “FOLLOW YOUR ARROW,” HER EVERGREEN VATN TO LIVE HOW YOU LIVE AND LOVE WHO YOU {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATIE PT: “IT’S BROAD ENOUGH THAT ANYONE N UNRSTAND : ‘FOLLOW YOUR ARROW WHEREVER POTS.’ BUT THERE’S ONE MOMENT THE SONG — THAT WAS THE FIRST MOMENT A MASTREAM UNTRY SONG THAT I HAD HEARD THAT TOPIC BEG ADDRSED AT ALL. I WAS STGGLG TO E OUT TO MY PARENTS AT THE TIME. HEARG A SONG BE SUCH A BIG UNTRY H MENTN THAT YOU SHOULD CELEBRATE WHO YOU LOVE — WAS JT A NOD OM A STRAIGHT ALLY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATED.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MXMTOON: “I ACTUALLY DIDN’T LIKE UNTRY MIC FOR A REALLY LONG TIME, HONTLY, BEE DIDN’T FEEL LIKE A SPACE WHERE A WOMAN OF LOR WHO INTIFIED AS QUEER ULD ACTUALLY F . WHEN I HEARD THAT LE, I WAS UGHT OFF GUARD. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT I HEARD SOME SORT OF QUEER ALLYSHIP SI OF A SONG THAT WAS THE UNTRY GENRE. THAT CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT MEANS TO BE A SONGWRER.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROBYN: “DANCG ON MY OWN”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROBYN IS A DANCE-FLOOR PHOENIX. THE SWEDISH SGER BEGAN HER REER THE ’90S, RELEASG HER BUT ALBUM ROBYN IS HERE 1995 AT THE AGE OF 16. AFTER DROPPG HER GRAMMY-NOMATED FOURTH LP, THE EPONYMO ROBYN, SHE LEFT THE SCENE FOR FIVE YEARS, ONLY TO SHAKE THE WORLD OF POP TO S RE WHEN SHE RETURNED. BODY TALK, A TRILOGY OF MI-ALBUMS OUT 2010, FEATURED WHAT WOULD BEE SOME OF ROBYN’S MOST INIC STATI SGL: “HANG WH ME,” “INSTCTIBLE,” AND OF URSE, HER LONOME OP “DANCG ON MY OWN.” THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SONG’S TREMBLG BASSLE AND SPARSE MELODY ECHO S LYRICS ABOUT UTTER ISOLATN. LONELS IS A UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE, BUT FOR MANY QUEER PEOPLE, THAT TRMA IS LLECTIVE: SOME ARE SHUNNED BY IENDS AND FAY SIMPLY FOR BEG WHO THEY ARE, FORCED TO SEEK NNECTN ELSEWHERE. NIGHTLIFE HAS LONG BEEN A GATHERG PLACE FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE — BEFORE WE ULD BE OPEN OUR DAILY LIV, WE FOUND EACH OTHER THE MTY, ANONYMO HAZE OF THE BAR. “DANCG ON MY OWN” PTUR THIS PERFECTLY AND HAS SCE BEEN GRAED THE MEMORI OF A GENERATN OF LGBTQ+ {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VCT: “ROBYN IS EVERYTHG. SHE’S THE BEGNG AND THE END. SHE’S THE MIDDLE. SHE’S EVERYTHG. ‘DANCG ON MY OWN’ WILL WRECK YOU, PULL YOU BACK TOGETHER. IT WILL GET YOU THROUGH A HEARTBREAK. IT WILL GET YOU THROUGH YOUR TAX, BCH. IT WILL GET YOU THROUGH THE MOMENT. ROBYN IS EVERYTHG.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MYKKI BLAN: “HOW MANY OF HAVE JT BEEN WALKG DOWN THE STREET AND SOMEONE GAWKS AT FOR WHAT WE HAVE ON OR QUTNS WHY? ‘WHY ARE YOU WEARG THOSE JEANS?’ OR ‘WHY ARE YOU WEARG THAT SHIRT?’ OR ‘WHY ARE YOU WEARG THAT TOP?’ IN A CLUB, YOU’RE ABLE TO FULLY EXPRS YOURSELF A WAY WHERE YOU N PRENT HOW YOU WANT TO PRENT WH LIKE-MD PEOPLE. THE MUNY IS THERE AND THE MIC IS GOG. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG SPIRUAL THAT HAPPENS THE CLUB.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS YEAR, EXPRS YOUR SELF-RE AND CELEBRATE PRI MDFULLY. VIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}PRI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

The explicly pro-gay sentiment is somethg relatively new to major-label pop (pecially major-label pop lnchg a much-anticipated album by arguably the most relevant pop star the world right now), " explaed Rich Juzwiak, thor of the pop-culture FourFour blog.

"Beg famo was very strange, and 's the gay men my life that helped me to bee a woman, " Gaga said on Untucked, a web seri that go behd the scen of VH1's realy drag petn. "I hope you know that myself and so many are your alli, " she told a mourng LGBT muny, a clear embrace of the "ally" sayg she is "not a gay woman" on Drag Race, Gaga is further cloudg the issue. She uld also have had a nversatn wh the gay nttants about the mon ground bi women share as members of another vulnerable muny.

"However, when one of the world's most visible reprentativ of the B LGBT clar herself an ally and "not a gay woman, " there will be queer heartbreak. and like her song born this way when she says no matter gay, straight, or bi lasbian trnsgenred life I'm on the right track, baby i was born to survive.

“Born This Way” me at a time when discsns about gay teen suici were reachg all-time highs, and shows like Glee were tryg to normalize queer love onscreen. Havg the words gay, bi, lbian, and—perhaps most important—transgenr sung loudly and clearly on a massive pop h was life-affirmg.

That's not jt another fun fact, 's a major her song "Born This Way, " an acceptance anthem for the LGBTQ muny, Gaga says "No matter gay, straight, or bi, lbian, transgenr life.

“No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lbian, transgenred life / I'm on the right track baby / I was born to survive, ” Gaga the fal of sgg ntt Let It She, the BBC cut the famed verse om the broadst, upsettg some viewers who though the broadster was purposely not airg the lyrics. Inspiratnal quot about LGBT rightsShow all 29“Weeks after the BBC are slammed for cuttg the gay lyrics Born This Way, they...

An out bisexual woman and an avowed activist (Gaga held a solo prott outsi Tmp Tower on electn night), she was alternately praised by the right for remag apolil and bashed by the left for prumably failg to toss a Molotov cktail wh Donald Tmp's face on at Mike Pence (who was attendance) even as she sang the words, "No matter gay, straight, or bi, lbian, transgenred life, " om the largt live stage the world. The words to "Born This Way clu "No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lbian, transgenred life / I'm on the right track baby / I was born to survive / No matter black, whe or beige / Chola or orient ma / I'm on the right track baby / I was born to be brave. " It was likely the first time "lbian, transgenr, gay, and bi" were ever uttered om the Super Bowl stage, and that self is radil.