From the glam-punk of Handbag to the ultra-mp Steve Elg, award-wng gay mic historian Darryl W Bullock picks out ep cuts to play at this year’s Pri celebratns
Contents:
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
- PETER DAWSON - A BACHELOR GAY LYRICS
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round. * peter gay song *
Back when The Who emerged the 1960s, homosexualy was still illegal, and even after was fally legimised a urt of law, large swaths of society refed to accept . It was a dangero place to be openly gay.
The mastermd behd The Who was quoted by The Daily Star newspaper’s Wired lumn as sayg: “Wh ‘I’m A Boy’ [1966 sgle] ’s the ia of masculy and the way that men are seen to be at a time when I often fet, to be homosexual, to be pansexual, as I thk I probably was, but not anymore.
” Addg: “I thk I fet that homosexualy was still illegal, so the adventur had to be uched vigt of humour and irony.
ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
Get ready to celebrate wh our list of gay anthems to stir the heart and move the hips. Happy Pri, everyone! * peter gay song *
Alice Cooper later perfectly summarised the charm of the song, statg: “You have Pete’s sexual ambiguy gog on here — sounds like a gay song. ” Even London, the most open-md quarter of Bra durg this time, actg as the epicentre of liberal thkg, was still not a lotn that some felt safe as an open homosexual. While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today.
PETER DAWSON - A BACHELOR GAY LYRICS
* peter gay song *
gay clubs but, wh a strg of hs, expand to natnal tours and TV.