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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. 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.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

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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. gay clubs but, wh a strg of hs, expand to natnal tours and TV. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era.

Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi . Rodgers later told the Mail on Sunday that they wrote the track “bee of her gay followg, ” but fibbed a ltle to a sktish Ross. “A DJ told her [the song] was gog to her reer – people would thk she was gay, ” Rodgers said.

It’s a quiet piano ballad about growg up gay. The lyrics e om the out-and-proud Brish punk rocker Tom Robson, who had a h of his own wh “Glad to be Gay. Much of Erasure’s disgraphy embodi not precisely celebratory gay pri but gay romantic realy – a ankns about the emotnal, if not overtly sexual, liv of gay men toward the end of the 20th century.