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8th Jun 2009, 09:23 PM
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| I've got the moves like Jagger Full Member   Gender: ♀ Orientation: Sapphicly inclined Out Status: My closet is for clothes! Location: BC, Canada Age: 23 Posts: 3,111 Join Date: Apr 2009 |  LGBT Songs? Anyone have any songs that mention gay, lesbian, or bi etc lyrics? I know a couple but I'd love to hear some more to dl.  
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8th Jun 2009, 10:27 PM
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| Sunshine & Optimism ...also Angels. Full Member  Gender: Theatre Queen Orientation: Disco Sticks Out Status: Everyone and a few more Location: BC, Canada Age: 21 Posts: 3,528 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? Pansy Division is ALL LGBT themed songs, well more the "G" but yea. My favorite is "Bill and Ted's Homosexual Adventure" hehehehe...
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8th Jun 2009, 10:36 PM
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| The gay gargoyle EC Advisor  Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Colorado Age: 42 Posts: 12,371 Join Date: Dec 2007 | Re: LGBT Songs? I haven't posted this in awhile, so time to dust it off. This is the Tom Robinson Band performing "Glad to Be Gay".
Tom had some modest success with his first single in the UK "2-4-6-8 Motorway", but this song (which was released as a single along with "Don't Take No for an Answer" was a real stunner. Tom was saying that he was gay. Not in a coy, fun, friendly way. But in a pointed, angry manner. Here are the lyrics to the single version (a bit different from what he sings here). The British Police are the best in the world I don't believe one of these stories I've heard 'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all Lining the customers up by the wall Picking out people and knocking them down Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground Searching their houses and calling them queer I don't believe that sort of thing happens here Sing if you're glad to be gay Sing if you're happy that way Pictures of naked young women are fun In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun There's no nudes in Gay News, our one magazine But they still find excuses to call it obscene Read how disgusting we are in the press The News of The World, and the Sunday Express Molesters of children, corruptors of youth It's there in the paper, it must be the truth Sing if you're glad to be gay Sing if you're happy that way Don't try to kid us, but if you're discreet You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark I had a friend who was gentle and short Got lonely one evening and went for a walk Queerbashers caught him and kicked in his teeth He was only hospitalized for a week Sing if you're glad to be gay Sing if you're happy that way So sit back and watch as they close all our clubs Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21 So only your friends and your brothers get done Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks Put down the queens and tell anti-queer jokes Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter 'The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?' Sing if you're glad to be gay Sing if you're happy that way The thing to keep in mind here is that Tom isn't singing about past history. This is now. His friend really did have his teeth kicked in just for being gay. The British police really DID do all these things. And Tom knew that by releasing this song, he was effectively ending his career as a pop singer. (More or less. He managed another modest hit with a lame remake of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number".) And yet Tom felt the song needed to be done. Extra bravery points to his band. They're straight, and they had to get up on stage and sing "Sing if you're glad to be gay"...in the late 70s. And not in a cutesy-fun, flavor-of-the-month, Katy Perry sort of way. In a "I could get my ass kicked for singing this" sort of way. Which is why the guitarist looks so nervous, I think. Lex | |||
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8th Jun 2009, 10:54 PM
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| One Is Light. One Is Dark. Full Member   Gender: The Dude Orientation: Bi-Winning Out Status: Everybody and Your Mom. Location: Bolivar, Ohio (From NY though) Age: 21 Posts: 7,672 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? Quote:
__________________  If there were no rewards to reap, No loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here, I certainly would've walked away by now. Gonna wait it out... Be patient. | |
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8th Jun 2009, 11:00 PM
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| Filip's sidekick EC Advisor  Gender: Female Orientation: Straight Out Status: Out as straight ally Location: France Age: 32 Posts: 5,400 Join Date: Feb 2009 | Re: LGBT Songs? I know some, but they are all in french. La différence (Lara Fabian) Adam et Yves (Zazie) Comme ils disent (Charles Aznavour) 3 ème Sexe (Indochine) There is sevral other songs of Indochine mentionning it, and the clip of Marylin starts with a kiss between Nicolas Sirkis and a guy.
__________________ "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means." Immanuel Kant |
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8th Jun 2009, 11:17 PM
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| Molitva Full Member   Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out and about Location: British Columbia, Canada Age: 35 Posts: 10,052 Join Date: Apr 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? Elton's Song - Elton John La Difference - Lara Fabian
__________________ ~ Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are ~ |
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9th Jun 2009, 12:11 AM
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| aka RyanMan (or Ryan) Full Member   Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: The friends I care to tell. Family'll come later Location: Champaign, Illinois Age: 21 Posts: 259 Join Date: Jan 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? I still remember - Bloc Party, it's kinda about two gay guys like some other songs by Bloc Party |
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9th Jun 2009, 03:29 AM
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| Banned  Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 19 Posts: 2,387 Join Date: Jul 2007 | Re: LGBT Songs? Lady Gaga's Poker Face is actually about hiding your true sexuality. Though it doesn't blatantly say anything gay, the meaning of the lyrics is about "bluffing" about your sexuality. |
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9th Jun 2009, 03:49 AM
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| Ytse Jamming. Full Member  Gender: Female Orientation: Lesbian Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 27 Posts: 2,217 Join Date: Oct 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs?
__________________ "I like my beer cold...my TV loud...and my homosexuals flaming." - Homer Simpson |
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9th Jun 2009, 04:30 AM
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| Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Full Member   Gender: Boy Orientation: Bi Out Status: Friends, Work, Whoever knows Location: South Australian! Posts: 3,536 Join Date: Jul 2007 | Re: LGBT Songs? Only one I could think of was Spaceman by Babylon Zoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBV-FH2_SXc http://www.metrolyrics.com/spaceman-...bylon-zoo.html
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9th Jun 2009, 07:25 AM
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| The gay gargoyle EC Advisor Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Colorado Age: 42 Posts: 12,371 Join Date: Dec 2007 | Re: LGBT Songs? >>>Apparently he is Bisexual, and that He had a LOT of criticism when he married a woman from a lot of people, including homosexuals, that upsets me... I'm not going to argue the anti-bisexual backlash he got, but there's a bit more to it than that. Tom never claimed to be anything but gay. He has said that, until he met his wife-to-be, he'd never found a woman attractive. Then, I'll be damned - he met a woman, fell in love, and apparently, he was actually bisexual. Kudos to him for not fighting it, and doing as his heart said. But remember - this was about twenty or so years ago. Before twitter, before myspace, before the internet. Tom couldn't suddenly tell all his fans (and the world) about his thoughts on the matter. All the gay community saw was this "gay and proud of it" man had married a woman, and they thought (wrongly) that he had perhaps felt he'd "outgrown" his homosexuality, and felt that the gay community had "lost" its first really outspoken member. This was on top of the anti-bi sentiments, so it was quite a little to-do. Lex |
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9th Jun 2009, 07:59 AM
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| stranger in a strange land Full Member   Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Pretty much Location: Belgium Posts: 1,042 Join Date: Jun 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? Well, lots of Jay Brannan's songs are gay-related. A few of my favorites: Can't Have it All
Housewife
Half-Boyfriend
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9th Jun 2009, 09:41 AM
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| Yes. Regular Member   Gender: Female Orientation: Kinsey 4 Out Status: Not out at all Location: Sweden Age: 19 Posts: 526 Join Date: Mar 2009 | Re: LGBT Songs? The Ark's song Father Of A Son is about gay people's right to adopt children. Ola Salo, who wrote it, got an award for it. |
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9th Jun 2009, 03:23 PM
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| EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Queer Out Status: All but some family Location: Derbyshire, UK Age: 18 Posts: 544 Join Date: May 2009 | Re: LGBT Songs? |
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9th Jun 2009, 04:05 PM
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| Diggin' the obviousness. Full Member  Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Arizona Age: 21 Posts: 246 Join Date: Jun 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? Quote:
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9th Jun 2009, 04:14 PM
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| Happily Married! :) EC Moderator   Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out and about. Location: Stoughton, Massachusetts USA Age: 43 Posts: 4,288 Join Date: Jun 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? Might Tell You Tonight by the Scissor Sisters. It's a love song Jake Shears wrote for his bf. I love that song. If I get married, I want to have that song playing.
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9th Jun 2009, 04:21 PM
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| Guest Posts: n/a | Re: LGBT Songs? Hand In Glove - The Smiths |
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9th Jun 2009, 04:27 PM
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| R-Y-R-Y Full Member  Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Completely Out Location: Staten Island, NYC Age: 20 Posts: 4,348 Join Date: Jan 2008 | Re: LGBT Songs? Quote:
Has this actually been said by her though? Because I've always thought of being gay when hearing the song and how you have to hide your sexuailty when you like guys and they don't even know, a "poker face" of sorts. I thought that was just me conecting the song to my own personal life though I wasn't aware it was written for that. It in a way makes the song less special to me now. I have to look this up now. Oh and Avenue Q - If You Were Gay
__________________ "I'm not that typical baby. I'm a bad kid like my mom and dad made me. I'm not that cool and you hate me. I'm a bad kid, that's the way that they made me" - GAGA | ||||
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9th Jun 2009, 04:59 PM
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| EC Addict Full Member   Gender: Not even sure anymore. Something in between. Orientation: I like girls :) Out Status: Everyone on orientation 7 people on trans issue. Location: Montréal, QC Age: 23 Posts: 1,595 Join Date: Dec 2007 | Re: LGBT Songs? Last edited by MusicIsLife; 9th Jun 2009 at 05:04 PM.. |
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9th Jun 2009, 05:15 PM
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| Guest Posts: n/a | Re: LGBT Songs? F**k you by Lily Allen |
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