Truly Gay Songs :)

Err, the only ones on that list I've heard of are Firework & Born This Way (which is why I'm only talking about them), but technically wouldn't they be "straight songs" too? Firework doesn't explicitly mention anything about LGBTQ, and Born This Way is more about minorities in general, not strictly LGBTQ (though it is a pretty widely accepted "gay anthem").

Just throwing that out there. Otherwise, I had no idea there were so many "gay songs" out there :lol:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgAYFVHwY_c

I don't know if this is considered a "gay song"

but it made me laugh a lot.

"If I Were Gay" by Stephen Lynch

 

Elton John- Philadelphia Freedom

 

How about "Fuck You" by Lily Allen? It'd be fun to blast that in a homophobic, politically active gay marriage fighting church service sometime.

 

It's been a while since I posted this, so let me get all preachy again.

This song is called "Glad to Be Gay" by the Tom Robinson Band. It was released on the Rising Free EP in 1978. That's nearly THIRTY-FIVE years ago. Tom Robinson actually went on any television show that would have him, and performed this song. And he's not recounting a history of what gays went through in the past. He's singing about what gays were going through right then. His comments about friends getting gaybashed, and the police brutality, and whatnot - that's all happening at the same time he was promoting this song. At the outset of this song (on the EP, not in the live clip here), Tom says "This song is dedicated to the World Health Organization. It’s a medical song and it concerns a disease whose classification according to the International Classification of Diseases is 302.0." That disease? Homosexuality. At the time he recorded this song, gayness still classified as a disease by the WHO.

I sometimes hear about how brave certain artists are for coming out or doing gay-friendly songs these days, but they can't hold a candle to Tom performing this angry song about how people were treating homosexuals at that point in time. Actually, even braver than Tom were his two bandmates, who performed this song with him in 1978...even though they were straight.

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These lyrics don't quite match what he's singing here - he tended to change lyrics to match any recent gay items in the news. Here are the lyrics from the EP version.

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, knocking them down
Resisting arrest as they’re kicked on the ground
Searching their houses, 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 found excuses to call it obscene
Read how disgusting we are in the press
The Telegraph, People and Sunday Express
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth
It’s there in the paper it must be the truth

Try and 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
He was lonely one evening, he went for a walk
Queerbashers caught him, kicked in his teeth
He was only hospitalised for a week
(And he still bears the scars)

Sing if you’re glad to be gay
Sing if you’re happy that way

And 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, tell anti-queer jokes
Gay Lib’s ridiculous, join their laughter
"The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?"

Tell them!
Sing if you’re glad to be gay
Sing if you’re happy that way
Sing if you’re glad to be gay
Sing if you’re happy this way

Lex

 

I second this.

And how does this list have Katy Perry, but not this:

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Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie
Take Your Mama - Scissor Sisters (there's quite a few by the Scissor Sisters)
Michael - Franz Ferdinand

 

Most anything by Mika particularly
-Blame It On The Girls
-Toy Boy
-Relax, Take It Easy (Used in the movie "Were The World Mine")

 

Some off the top of my head. I linked to the videos for you though.

Sailor Man covered by Ewert and the Two Dragons.
Te Amo, by Rihanna.
Alejandro (when it's sung by a guy, it's beyond gay), this cover is by All Time Low.
Your Song, by Elton John.

 

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---------- Post added 7th May 2012 at 12:46 AM ----------

And I remember the last time too. Still have that shit in my music folder.

 

My personal favorite and relatively modern, "Men in Love" by Gossip

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From the album "Bent".

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Yes, you heard the lyrics correctly.

 

Rod Stewart - The Killing of George (Parts 1 & 2)
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixc025fZRE[/YOUTUBE]

Darren Hayes - So Beautiful
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HpA7UZvWdc[/YOUTUBE]
Written about his, then, boyfriend (now husband).

Orphans & Vandals - Mysterious Skin
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwycqLhZmI[/YOUTUBE]

The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjOJjP2pXdo[/YOUTUBE]

 

This probably isn't what you're looking for, but when I saw the title, I thought of this...

Electric Six - "Gay Bar" (Hi Res) - YouTube

 

This was the first song that came to my mind: We Have Band - You Came Out
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I'm not responsible for any weird dreams caused by the video

 

I dont know why I remember this, and I don think I would consider it music but, Soccer Practice by Gay Pimp comes to mind.