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The 50 best gay songs to celebrate Pride all year long
Motility your hips with these essential gay songs, from unforgettable LGBTQ+ anthems to poignant ballads exploring queer life
Xxx days of summer is a pretty paltry amount of time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. Pride is and so much more than a month of parades and celebrations. It'south life. And while we'd never balk at an alibi to gloat everything that Pride stands for, nosotros too believe that any time is the perfect time to crank up these gay songs and let the rainbow flag fly. That'due south why we've assembled a fifty-song playlist perfectly calibrated for Pride Month and beyond, featuring some of history's greatest queer artists andLGBTQ+allies who pay more than lip service.
Here yous'll detect political party anthems, popular songs and techno songs, disco infernos and punk-rock proclamations. No need to wait for the parade. This is your all-seasons, all-time-keen Pride playlist – take hold of the aux cable and play it loud and proud.
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1. 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor
Information technology starts off slowly, shrouded in fear; so the crush kicks in, the song builds in confidence, and past the terminate, now backed by a cord section, it's a full-bore disco canticle of self-assurance. On its cute face, Gloria Gaynor'south 'I Will Survive' is about a woman getting over the guy who done her wrong; only in 1978, as gay liberation was gathering steam in heated nightclubs effectually the world, information technology too played like a declaration of hard-won pride ('I used to weep / But now I hold my head upwardly high') and independence from the hetero norm ('I'm not that chained-up trivial person nevertheless in honey with you'). In the 1980s, when AIDS wiped out tens of thousands of those who danced to it, the song took on new layers of resonance. Today, 'I Volition Survive' carries all of that baggage, and lifts information technology up forth with the spirits of anyone who hears its bulletin. Did you think we'd crumble? Did you lot think we'd lay downward and die? Recall once more. We're going to trip the light fantastic.
2. 'Freedom! '90' by George Michael
Half dozen years after scoring a No. 1 hit chosen 'Freedom' with Wham!, George Michael crushed the charts with this melody of the same name. The redundancy was the point. Michael was destroying his past, writing over it, melting information technology away with acrid house. In the video, the symbols of his 'Faith' fame burned and crumbled—his leather jacket, the guitar, the Wurlitzer. The pop star didn't appear in the video himself, instead putting his words in the mouths of godly women from the golden age of supermodels—Campbell, Evangelista, Turlington, Crawford. The lip-synching proclaimed: Take this song, anyone, everyone, information technology is yours. (Though the less said well-nigh the Robbie Williams version, the meliorate.) When Michael came out, spectacularly, in 1998, the pointed lyrics gained a whole new level of resonance.
3. 'Montero (Call Me By Your Proper noun)' Past Lil Nas 10
Lil Nas X became a legend when he invaded the good ol' boys' country order with 'Old Town Road'. He became an icon with 'Montero', a supercharged striking dripping with raw sexuality. His unabashed individualism and embrace of hookup civilization made him a trailblazer in the world of hip hop, but nobody would accept paid attention if the song wasn't an absolute bop. Nas says he'southward merely here to sin. Giving into the temptation to bring together him is extra piece of cake when the beat is equally ill as 'Montero'.
iv. 'Vogue' by Madonna
'Look around: Everywhere you turn is heartache.' That's non exactly a fluffy opening shot for a trip the light fantastic toe-pop song—and that's the indicate. Recorded at the top of America's AIDS crisis and inspired by New York's hole-and-corner gay brawl scene (famously documented in the 1991 motion-picture show Paris Is Burning), Madonna's deep-house–inflected 1990 smash commands y'all to go out the heavy stuff aside—if only for a few minutes—and find salvation on the trip the light fantastic floor. Virtually a quarter of a century subsequently, this classic track from one of the most beloved gay icons of all time sounds no less imperative.
5. 'Queen' by Perfume Genius
Though Seattle vocaliser-songwriter Mike Hadreas first came to prominence making fragile, melancholy songs hidden behind a piano, he reinvented the program with this unmarried from his 2014 opus, 'Too Bright'. Blaring '80s-pop synths, orchestral flourishes and lustrous backing vocals brand for a triumphant party banger about turning the things other people run into as 'broken' into your armor and strength, all achieved with a smirk—'No family is prophylactic /When I sashay.'
half dozen. 'Black Me Out' by Against Me!
Singer Laura Jane Grace has ever been a revolutionary—see songs similar 'Baby I'm an Agitator' — but null rebelled as hard confronting the heteropatriarchal terrain of the punk mainstream than her explorations of coming out as a trans woman on her pivotal anthology ' Transgender Dysphoria Blues'. This song isn't experience-good; it's a glaring middle finger to those that keep you from presenting your authentic self to the earth. Clap back and scream along: 'I desire to piss on the walls of your business firm.'
7. 'I'm Coming Out' by Diana Ross
Aye, this vocal is about that kind of 'coming out'. Chichi's Nile Rodgers was inspired to write this funky 1980 jewel for Diana Ross after seeing multiple elevate queens dressed as the iconic singer at a gay disco in New York. For her function, Ross was in the process of extracting herself from her long relationship with Motown when 'I'k Coming Out' arrived on the charts, giving the song additional significance for the music legend. Today, Ross still opens her shows with 'I'm Coming Out', and the vocal remains a quintessential anthem of liberation—gay or otherwise.
8. 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)' by Sylvester
A decade afterward the Stonewall Riots of 1969, openly LGBTQ+ musicians were however a rarity – at the time, Elton John identified as bi, but he was the exception rather than the rule. Yet, flamboyant singer-songwriter Sylvester proved that queerness wasn't incongruous with chart success, thanks to this incredibly infectious 1978 disco archetype, one of the almost beloved and thrilling songs of its era.
nine. 'Over the Rainbow' past Judy Garland
For generations who grew upwards as 'friends of Dorothy', yearning to escape into a realm of Technicolor urban fantasy, the tacit gay national anthem was Garland's wistful ballad from 1939's The Wizard of Oz (with a gorgeous melody by Harold Arlen and touching lyrics by social activist East.Y. 'Yip' Harburg). Garland'south later performances of the song on TV and in concert—older, battered by life, just still dreaming of a happier place—had fifty-fifty greater ability. But fifty-fifty at present that so many closet doors have opened, 'Over the Rainbow'—and don't you dare call it 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' lest someone threaten to revoke your gay menu—still inspires pride and reverence. Listening to it feels like saluting the rainbow flag.
10. 'A Picayune Respect' past Erasure
'What religion or reason could drive a homo to forsake his lover?' sings Andy Bong on this stirring synth-popular classic — a hit for British duo Erasure in 1988, and a perfect, piquant response to the British government's outrageously homophobic Section 28 legislation. Word is that at the time, Bell would introduce the song onstage saying, 'When I was a fiddling daughter, I asked my mummy, 'Can I be gay when I grow upward?' She replied, 'Yes, if you bear witness a little respect.''
11. 'I Want to Suspension Gratis' by Queen
You'd never guess this emancipation anthem was written by Queen bassist John Deacon and non frontman Freddie Mercury, such is the relish with which Mercury belts it out: 'God knows, I've got to break free!' Brits didn't bat an eye at the video — a parody ofCoronation Street, which has the entire band in drag, with Mercury as a horny housewife—but it was banned in the U.South. at the time. Par for the course.
12. "Smalltown Boy" past Bronski Vanquish
By incorporating unapologetic LGBTQ themes into their sleek synth-popular hits, Bronski Beat were truthful pioneers – and this 1984 archetype is their about transcendent moment. Frontman Jimmy Somerville, in a sensitive falsetto, sings about a lad who flees hometown bullying — 'Run away, plow away' is the recurring refrain — against a steady, reassuringly numb background of rhythm and synthesiser. This song takes the pain of rejection and makes it danceable.
13. 'Y.Chiliad.C.A.' by Hamlet People
For any guy who's ever wanted to exist (or slumber with) a cowboy, cop or leather-clad biker, the Village People reign supreme as gay-canticle nautical chart toppers. Songs like 'Macho Man', 'Get Westward' (covered brilliantly by the Pet Shop Boys), 'Cruisin'' and 'In the Navy' are full of double entendres, and 1978'southward 'Y.G.C.A.'— which became 1 of the well-nigh popular singles of the 1970s — is no different. In fact, the Immature Men's Christian Clan was so appalled at the song's implications that it threatened to sue, until it noticed that membership had significantly increased in the wake of the tune's success. Turns out any printing is proficient press — eh, boys?
14. 'Complimentary' past Ultra Naté
A global smash for dance diva Ultra Naté in 1997, 'Costless' offers liberation not as a luxury only as an imperative: 'You've got to live your life — do what you desire to do,' urges the singer. The melancholy guitar riff that kicks off the vocal gives way to an ecstatic, celebratory chorus that's the musical apotheosis of throwing your hands in the air. Then don't concord back!
fifteen. 'Closer' past Tegan and Sara
With the massive success of this shimmering lead unmarried from 2013's superb 'Heartthrob' album, the Quin twins went from indie fav es to bona fide pop queens. Along the way, the openly gay sisters struck a major accident for LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream pop, which has steadily been improving ever since. The result? An absolute banger that also helped to motility the punch forwards.
16. 'Forrest Gump' by Frank Ocean
'You run my mind male child,' Frank Body of water sings on this whistle-kissed, impossibly sweet R&B throwback from his 'Channel Orange' , the landmark album that served as Sea's introduction to the mainstream pop/R&B/hip-hop world. Taken on its ain, 'Forrest Gump' is simply lovely, merely it'southward also just ane piece of the complex puzzle that makes Ocean such a bracing, unpredictable and timeless artist.
17. 'Go West' by Pet Store Boys
When the Hamlet People got all Horace Greeley in 1979, information technology was most probable a flash and a nod to the growing gay utopia of San Francisco. By the time the Pet Shop Boys covered 'Go W' in 1993, information technology was something altogether different. Coming at a moment after the well-nigh devastating years of the AIDS crisis, when the epidemic was better understood merely its future was frustratingly unknowable, Neil Tennant's melancholy reading of the song's promise-filled lyrics, with backing from a large, all-male person choir, finds something unexpectedly moving in a cheesy artifact.
18. 'Believe' by Cher
Cher's glittering, indelible career has been one unexpected triumph after another. No one expected her to become an Oscar-winning actress in the 1980s – and no one expected her to score her biggest always hit in the belatedly 1990s with this absolutely transcendent club banger. Do you believe in life later beloved? Hell yeah! – and we also believe in the power of Cher, whether her glorious foghorn of a voice is Motorcar-Tuned or not.
19. 'It'southward Raining Men' by the Weather condition Girls
Gay icons Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Cher and Barbra Streisand all turned downwards Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer's campy composition earlier the Weather Girls snapped it upward in 1982. Information technology's impossible to imagine any of those more famous singers diving into this ridiculous classic with the fearlessness and song pyrotechnics of quondam Sylvester backup singers Izora Armstead and Martha Wash, who take the song over the top in the best possible sense.Fifty-fifty Geri Halliwell's nautical chart-topping cover version couldn't out-camp information technology.
20. 'Let'due south Have a Kiki' by Scissor Sisters
In the summer of 2012, 'Permit's Have a Kiki' was so ubiquitous in gay bars that it nearly crossed over into annoying. By the time Sarah Jessica Parker sang it on Glee, we were officially over it. But after a brief suspension, it's time to accept this song for what it is: ` hilarious primer on queer underground culture (equally with 'Vogue', the New York ball scene is the inspiration hither), set to an irresistible techno beat. No wonder it got and so big that your mom now thinks that MTA stands for 'Motherfuckers Touching my Ass'.
21. 'Where the Girls Are' past The Gossip
We could've gone with a number of Gossip tracks; fiery frontwoman Beth Ditto has said the group'due south afterwards breakthrough hit 'Continuing in the Style of Control' was penned as a reaction to President Bush's endorsement during the 2004 election cycle of a constitutional amendment confronting same-sexual practice marriage, afterward all. But there's something about the casual confidence with which the cocky-described 'fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas' introduces herself in this lo-fi come-on from the ring's 2000 debut: 'When I'yard right, I'll say I'm right.'
22. 'All the Lovers' past Kylie Minogue
The Australian pop princess may have scored her biggest dance-floor hit with 'Can't Go You Out of My Head', but euphoric, gorgeous disco swoon 'All the Lovers' actually captures the spirit of Pride. Minogue herself has said that the video is an homage to her gay audition; it features a human pyramid of pansexual smooching (in the style of naked-installation artist Spencer Tunick). For good measure, there'south besides a galloping white horse, a dove, balloons and an inflatable elephant.
23. 'Supermodel (Y'all Better Work)" past RuPaul'
RuPaul, you lot are a goddess. The drag queen-slash-mogul debuted this sassy hitting in 1992, winning over not only gay fans, merely an audition every bit wide every bit that of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who cited the vocal as ane of his favorites a year later. RuPaul is total of catchphrases ('lip-synch for your life', anyone?), but the ones in this song are amid her most widely known and widely quoted. Sashay, shantay! Shantay shantay shantay.
24. 'Beautiful' by Christina Aguilera
A connecting link between Cyndi Lauper's 'Truthful Colors' and Katy Perry'due south 'Firework' (both on this list), Aguilera'due south 2002 ability ballad — written and produced by four Non Blondes' lesbian hitmaker Linda Perry — proffers affirmation to those who feel they don't fit in. In the video, these include young people with body problems, a goth punk, a (biological) man putting on women's clothes and 2 guys tongue-kissing in public. "I am beautiful no matter what they say," Aguilera insists on behalf of all these surrogates. 'Words can't bring me downwards.' Just songs can elevator you upwards, and this one is a true musical show of solidarity.
25. 'Built-in This Mode' by Lady Gaga
No one has ever campaigned for a gay fan base quite so openly as Lady Gaga, and her 2011 hit 'Born This Mode' was her about obvious souvenir to our demographic. The song has its detractors — it'southward basically a rewrite of Madonna's "Express Yourself," information technology's got some unacceptable lyrics ('Orient'? Really?), and the concept of being 'built-in' gay is kind of irrelevant and unsubtle. Still, it'due south difficult not to exist moved by its message of self-credence, and very few songs sound quite every bit exciting clarion from a float on a Pride parade. An imperfect anthem, just an anthem nonetheless.
26. 'Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance At present)' by C+C Music Factory
A gag in a 1997 episode of The Simpsons institute a seemingly 'manly' steel factory turning into a flamboyant gay club when this 1990 runway came over the loudspeaker — an indication of only how thoroughly gay this song is. 'Gonna Brand You Sweat' is the second vocal on our list featuring the powerhouse vocals of Conditions Girls singer Martha Wash, who never quite achieved mainstream fame (she was replaced in this rail'south video past C+C Music Factory member Zelma Davis), but has been beloved by the gay customs for decades. And quite correct too.
27. 'The Jean Genie' by David Bowie
The copper mullet, the lightning bolt across the face — in 1972, Bowie was at the peak of his androgynous alien phase, pushing Ziggy Stardust closer to the sun until he incinerated in a flash. A yr before, in a Melody Maker interview, the glam rocker had declared himself gay. Though he later on sloppily retracted the statement in a drug fog (he was living on a rumoured diet of coke, milk and peppers at the fourth dimension), it remained a momentous occasion in pop music. Every bit 'Mannish Boy' echoed through Mick Ronson's dirty blues riff, the Jean Genie, or Aladdin Sane, or whatever Bowie's avatar might have been at the moment, proved you could growl through tough and gnarly rock while sporting perfectly applied lip gloss.
28. 'Viz' past Le Tigre
Before forming her trip the light fantastic-DJ-product project MEN, JD Samson stepped up to the mike as a member of this electro-rock trio. 'Viz' (2004), well-nigh butch-lesbian visibility, offers an early glimpse of Samson'due south sly humor and her power to make radical queer politics into dance-floor forage. BandmatesJohanna Fateman and Kathleen Hanna – aye, Le Tigre legend Kathleen Hanna – bring together in on the final chorus for a joyous feminist sing-along.
29. 'Your Loving Arms' by Billie Ray Martin
Almost gay dance anthems are packed with drama of both the lyrical and vocal variety. But in 1994, German vocalizer Billie Ray Martin invaded clubland with this icy flooring filler that's so at-home she almost seems detached. Don't let that well-nigh-monotone fool you, though— Martin is a formidable singer, and when she finally cuts loose 'Burning within, burning inside, aye!'), information technology's a master class in the fine art of delayed gratification.
30. 'Tainted Love' by Soft Cell
Okay, the gay experience is not all about empowerment and credence and rainbows and unicorns. Sometimes it'south nigh toxic narcissists who break your middle, and Soft Cell'south 1981 single — a cover of a semi-forgotten 1964 soul runway by Gloria Jones — captures all the anger and injure that unrequited dearest can bring. The defoliation, too: 'Don't bear on me, delight / I cannot stand the way yous tease' quickly relents into a 'Bear on me, baby' fadeout. And gay lead singer Marc Almond gave it a subtle simply undeniable edge of queer insider noesis.
31. 'City Grrrl' by CSS
Bad girls and gay boys have ever been besties, and this 2011 track from Brazilian combo Cansei de Ser Sexy is a loving ode to that special relationship. Lead singer Lovefoxxx looks back on adolescent fantasies of 'being busy with my task and my gay friends, laughing and drinking with my one-night stands' in the 'big city'. Anyone who's ever felt trapped in a pocket-size boondocks (and eventually escaped) will definitely relate.
32. 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Human being After Midnight)' by ABBA
ABBA may be most associated with '70s soft stone, only this galloping disco anthem proved the Swedes could as well plough upward the tempo. Singer Agnetha Fältskog wails virtually the frustration of being solitary (and peradventure horny) late at nighttime while parked in front of the TV. Information technology'due south a familiar scenario to anyone who's ever spent a long nighttime flipping through Grindr (or Scruff or Manhunt or whatsoever). And when Madonna wants to sample a song (as she did for her 2006 striking 'Hung Up', you know it'south plant that society pop sweet spot.
33. 'Last Dance' by Donna Summer
All skillful things must come to an end, and Donna Summer's 1978 disco nail is an invitation to go out with a bang. Written for the movie Thank God It's Friday by gay disco composer Paul Jabara—who won an Oscar for it—the number begins in a sleepy, cogitating space, and so rouses itself and its listeners to get dorsum in the swing of things. Not surprisingly, information technology is oft played as the final tune of a long night, offer one terminal shot to party like there's no tomorrow (and and so, tomorrow, to party once again).
34. 'True Colors' by Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper's spunky 1983 debut album, 'She's So Unusual', overflowed with coded queer messages (including a reference to Blueboy mag and a Prince comprehend that didn't modify the gender pronouns), simply the title track of her 1986 follow-up endeared her fifty-fifty more to LGBTQ+ listeners tired of existence judged for being different. 'I see your truthful colors / And that'southward why I honey you,' Lauper sings in a phonation of tenderness tinged with urgency. 'Then don't be agape to permit them prove / Your true colors are cute like a rainbow.' In her long history of gay activism — mayhap no other straight pop star has been more actively engaged on that forepart — Lauper has e'er been willing to speak colourful truth to power.
35. 'Come to My Window' by Melissa Etheridge
4 years earlier Ellen alleged, 'Yep, I'm Gay', on the embrace of Time, Melissa Etheridge titled her 1993 album 'Yes I Am' afterwards publicly coming out every bit a lesbian at an inaugural event for Bill Clinton. The rocker won a Grammy for this single, an appeal to a lover that'due south steeped in tumult and possible secrecy. The terrific bridge — 'I don't care what they think, I don't care what they say / What do they know about this love anyway' — seemed well-nigh tailor-made to inspire gay listeners to come out with confidence.
36. 'Him' by Sam Smith
While 'Dancing with A Stranger' is the more than club-set song from the queer non-binary British icon, we all demand a bit of time for reflection. Smith returns to the balladry that fabricated them famous with this pensive, pianoforte-driven song about the vocalist'southward struggle to reconcile their identity with their religion. Anyone who'south always struggled with that particular duality should feel wholly seen. And anyone who hasn't will however be left in tears. That's the power of Sam Smith.
37. 'Walk on the Wild Side' by Lou Reed
With this dry out, wry, bass-driven paean to sexual outlaws from his 1972 anthology, 'Transformer', Reed cemented his street cred every bit the epitome of New York cool. The subjects of his seen-it-all narration are five colourful characters from the crowd that Andy Warhol had alleged, by fiat, 'superstars': early trans icons Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling and Jackie Curtis, plus a couple of very irregular Joes (Dallesandro and Campbell). The song became a top-20 striking (though the radio edit scrubbed out a reference to backroom accident jobs), and helped enhance the voltage bar on what was considered shocking.
38. 'Rebel Girl' by Bikini Kill
This muscular riot-grrrl anthem finds singer Kathleen Hanna straddling the line betwixt platonic crush ('I think I want to exist her best friend') and flat-out sapphism ('In her kiss, I taste the revolution!'). If you want to run across a room full of gay girls (and more a few boys) lose their shit, play this 1993 classic on the jukebox.
39. 'Sugariness Transvestite' by Tim Curry
Anyone looking for an excuse to wear sexy black lingerie in public found a perfect one in Richard O'Brien's B-motion picture musical spoof and midnight-movie cult smash The Rocky Horror Picture Bear witness. Tim Curry's outrageous camp charisma as the antiheroic Dr. Frank-N-Furter — alien, mad scientist and deviant seducer in one gartered package — dragged cross-dressing out of the shadows and strutted it every bit a virtue. Shamelessness has never seemed and then easy.
40. 'Battle Cry' by Angel Brume
The super-talented rapper, who identifies as pansexual, doesn't directly address sexuality in this 2nd single from 2013's 'Muddied Gilded' album. But the track'southward themes of working abroad from a repressive religious upbringing and relying on inner forcefulness to overcome obstacles ('I realized I was a teacher, non just one of the heathens / I'chiliad going to destroy the fallacies, start creating believers'), combined with a seductively uplifting Sia-sung claw, make for queer gold indeed.
41. 'Hang with Me' by Robyn
Fuck buddies, open up relationships, one-night-stands… gays don't have the market on casual sexuality cornered, but we certainly take it figured out a footling ameliorate than our direct brethren. Critically adored pop sensation Robyn proved she could hang with the gays in 2010 when she released this single spelling out the pros and cons of friends with benefits.
42. 'Make Your Own Kind of Music' by Mama Cass
Cass Elliott was a big, warm woman with a large, warm vox, and she didn't fit hands into the sleek, cool world of pop music; she was unlucky in love, and died of a middle assault at 32. Just these are the kinds of things that tin can brand a gay male child love you even more. Part practiced-time gal pal and part maternal figure, she had credibility in 1969 when—having just ended her stint with the Mamas and the Papas, which forever tagged her as Mama Cass—she sang Barry Isle of man and Cynthia Weil'southward words of encouragement and independence: 'Make your ain kind of music / Even if nobody else sings along.'
43. 'Gay Bar' by Electric 6
'Yous! I desire to take you to a gay bar.' Like many of the tracks on this Detroit trip the light fantastic toe-rock outfit's 2003 debut ('Fire'), 'Gay Bar' is infectious nonsense. But its mitt-clappy, surf-rock vibe is proficient fun, and a tongue-in-cheek video, featuring singer Dick Valentine cavorting homoerotically around the White House with a cadre of scantily clad Gaybraham Lincolns, helped make the vocal a hit at the…you know.
44. "Wut" by Le1f
It's a rare (and brave) thing to exist a gay hip-hop artist, but Le1f is unabashedly queer — and also incredibly talented. "Wut" (2012) was his coming-out single (pun intended?), featuring some insanely tongue-twisting verses and a lot of Le1f thigh in the music video. Is information technology the coming of a new banjee rap era? Perhaps. Though, every bit Le1f told Fader, "Gay rap…is not a genre. My goal is always to make songs that a gay dude or a straight dude can listen to and simply think, This dude has swag." Mission accomplished.—Kate Wertheimer
45. "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" by Sophie B. Hawkins
"I give you something sugariness each time you come inside my jungle book," coos omnisexual chanteuse Sophie B. Hawkins in this sensual 1992 striking, an explosive ode to unfulfilled desire that'southward get a Pride staple. MTV banned the supposedly saucy video, just it'due south the song that sizzles, as this fully clothed just still sexy version attests. —Sophie Harris
46. "I U She" past Peaches
Peaches may be the sexiest man live, and the reason is made clear in this song, off 2003's Fatherfucker: "I don't take to brand the choice / I like girls and I similar boys." Never has sexuality been so fluid (and never have gender norms been and then completely disregarded) as in the career of super queer, super talented Merrill Beth Nisker, who pushes the envelope and offends sensibilities at every turn. Also, she fights zombies with Iggy Pop — double swoon.—Kate Wertheimer
47. "Grace Kelly" by Mika
This bold, fabled unmarried, from Mika's 2007 Life in Cartoon Motion, is at heart well-nigh refusing to change who you are to notice acceptance. Information technology's the stuff gay anthems are made of, from the message to the sheer jam-packedness of the music — tap-dancing rhythms, iconic picture dialogue, Elton-like piano riffs and campy vocals all piece of work together to create a joyous popular hitting. (It also doesn't hurt that Mika is such a dreamboat.)—Kate Wertheimer
48. "Finally" past CeCe Peniston
CeCe Peniston'due south 1991 hit holds upwards just fine on its own, but it'south been elevated to anthem status (and makes the cut here) cheers to its inclusion in the 1994 film classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. 2 decades later, it's impossible to hear this song without picturing Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce lip-synching along in their eye-popping drag getups.—Ethan LaCroix
49. "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
The BBC tried to ban this thumping, boundary-pushing 1984 debut single past Britpop provocateurs Frankie Goes to Hollywood, for sexually suggestive (if disruptive) lyrics similar these: "Relax, don't do it / When you want to suck to information technology / Relax, don't do it / When you lot want to come up." The song'southward outré original video was a Fellini-esque fantasy involving leathermen, drag queens, tiger wrestling and an obese emperor in a toga, all building to an fifty-fifty more over-the-elevation climax; the video was banned by the BBC, too (and MTV). Just it didn't thing: The vocal was a hit, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood's time had come up.—Adam Feldman
50. "You Demand to At-home Downwardly" by Taylor Swift
Taylor has long been an ally, but before Lover she seemed to be cheering from the sidelines. "You Need To Calm Down" finds Taylor front and center, calling out callous bigots and homopobes with lines similar " 'shade never made everyone less gay." The bubblebum crush serves as much equally a flippant middle finger to dirtbags equally it does a telephone call to the dancefloor for those who aren't. Bonus points for the video featuring an army of one-timeElevate Race contestants... including Taylor impersonator Jade Jolie.
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