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The 100 Greatest LGBTQ+ Anthems of All Time
How does a song become a gay anthem? Like the LGBTQ+ community itself, our soundtrack is vast and diverse. We have recorded our history and contribution to the culture through music, and with this list we acknowledge and remember the forerunners that have made possible the positive changes we’ve seen over the decades. These songs are a testimony to our resilience and excellence.
While it’s doomed to define exactly what makes a song “gay,” this list definitely isn’t straight. You will spot many overlaps between this list and some of the best house and disco tracks that were blasted in the ballrooms, as well as transformative hits by our beloved big-voiced divas. There are introspective slow jams by queer artists and allies that mirror our struggles with self-acceptance and social rejection. There are Billboard Hot 100-topping sensations and hidden gems that are forgotten or yet to be discovered; instant classics and songs that grew to be our community’s favorites. Besides the best-known songs that are inherent to a list enjoy this, we want to highlight the queer musicians who deserve a spotlight, too.
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Good advice from Canada’s raunchiest sex sage. With the help of a Roland MC-505, the bisexual drama teacher–turned-rapper sparked a titillating new wave of sleazebag disco with her 2000 LP, Teaches of Peaches. Although “Fuck the Pain Away” was too risqué to chart, its indelible, braggadocious lines permeated everything from South Park to 30 Rock and 2003 film Lost In Translation: “Suckin’ on my titties favor you wanted me/Calling me all the time like Blondie/Check out my Chrissy behind/It’s fine all of the time.” It was reportedly Madonna’s favorite practice song, and she also featured it in her London play, Up For Grabs. In a 2003 interview with The Guardian, Peaches divulges that she sent Madonna and Guy Ritchie some autographed panties as thanks. “I signed some underwear,” she says, “I wrote, ‘Dear Guy, fuck ya later, passion Peaches,’ and for Madonna I wrote, ‘Dear Madonna, fuck ya now, affection Peaches.’ It’s cool.” –SE
Tom Robinson was the first gay rock star to be out-and-proud from the off.
In early 1978, at the height of his fame and barely ten years after homosexuality was legalised in the UK, he released Glad To Be Gay as a single.
It was unusual for organism precise and prominent about an issue that simply had no precedent in popular song.
Other disagree songs form part of a wider repertoire – classics though they are, Masters Of War and Eve Of Destruction weren’t the first popular anti-war songs. Other activism songs can be rousing but communicate somewhat vaguely about the resilience of the oppressed, or the iniquities of the powerful.
Apart from a few queer activists nobody had heard a male lover song before, enable alone one as militant and furious as Glad To Be Gay. Tom Robinson put it in the uppermost 20 and into the mind of the straight public.
It had been written a year earlier, to be performed as a one-off at London’s Homosexual Pride in August 1976. It was a bitter, snarling assault on the attitude of homosexual people who’d spin up to homosexual events wearing the ‘glad to be gay’ badges then in circulation, yet take them off in public, experiment to pass for straight at abode and in the workplace. It accused them of t
Thirty days of summer is a pretty paltry window of age to celebrate the LGBTQ+ group, and Pride is so much more than a month of parades and celebrations – it’s life. And while we’d never baulk at an excuse to celebrate everything that Pride stands for, we also believe that any time is the flawless time to crank up these gay songs and fly that rainbow flag.
That’s why we’ve assembled a 50-song playlist perfectly calibrated for Pride Month and beyond, featuring some of history’s greatest queer artists and LGBTQ+ allies who pay more than lip service. You’ll find party anthems, pop songs, disco infernos and punk-rock proclamations, so there’s no need to wait for the parade. This is your all-seasons, all-time-great Pride playlist. Grab the aux cable and blast it loud and proud.
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