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The song has since frequently been performed by gay male choirs.įlaming Ember | Stop the World (And Let Me Off) (ělue Eyed Soul )Ī guy's despair because of losing his woman to another woman.
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Zebedy Colt | The Man I Love ( Standard )Ī popular standard usually sung by a woman, but given a gay twist here because of being sung by a man. Needless to say, it was never released as a single. It was written to be the Stones' final single for Decca Records as per their contract, with language chosen specifically to anger Decca executives. The Rolling Stones | Cocksucker Blues ( Acousticělues ) A picture of her is also used as the cover of Antony & The Johnsons' album I Am a Bird Now.) But in the Kinks' official biography Davies says the song was written after the band's manager spent a very drunken night dancing with a woman whose five o'clock shadow was apparently obvious to everyone but him. (Candy Darling is also mentioned in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" and was the subject of Reed's earlier song for The Velvet Underground, "Candy Says". According to a 2004 piece in Rolling Stone magazine, it may have been inspired by Candy Darling, a trans woman who was part of Andy Warhol's entourage, and whom lead singer Ray Davies briefly (and cluelessly) dated. There are two accounts of the inspiration behind this song. And why only start at 1970? While I’m sure there are good LGBT-related songs prior to 1970, from what I’ve read there were not many of them back then and I’ve not properly explored them yet. Also, only songs sung in English are included as I’m not familiar with LGBT-themed songs sung in other languages. Conversely, if I include every LGBT-themed song I’ve heard the list will be way too long, so I’ve had to make decisions about which songs to include and which to exclude (this is obviously a subjective list). I’m sure there are songs I don’t know about that deserve to be included in the list. There is only one song per artist and I’ve tried to include a wide variety of music genres. After all, being empowered by a song or feeling closely connected to its sensibilities are not exclusively LGBT. What you also won’t find on the list are songs by straight, cisgender performers that have been adopted as gay anthems (like Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” or ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”) or have a large lesbian following (like Sade’s “By Your Side”). I’ve come across a few cases where a song has been interpreted as having a LGBT theme, or where a music video has generated LGBT-related discussions (like Hozier’s Take Me to Church) but the lyrics are too ambiguous to support that interpretation, and these song ended up not being included.
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Songs with a LGBT-related theme that are performed by straight, cisgender people are of course included as well. Give them a go - they might surprise you.Ī few things to note about the songs that have been included: All the songs have a LGBT-related theme, with a few exceptions where the theme of the song is not specifically LGBT-related but is performed by a LGBT artist. If you've stumbled across this thread and don't recognize many of these songs, don't judge them too soon.
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Yet I can’t help but feel that I’m part of a larger LGBT community, mostly because of sharing a memory with many in that community about having to rise above prejudice and quash feelings of distress when I first realised that I had no control over which sex I was attracted to.īut before this turns into an essay about the value of a thread like this, I’ll just say that the main reason for doing this was that it was fun to do! (And who knows, maybe other LGBT people – and supporters – will think it's a useful source.) This is a fairly frank post about LGBT-related expressions of love, gender and getting laid in songs, and at times the lyrics, comments and videos below are a tad explicit. For me, the fact that I’m gay is only a small part of my overall identity – just like straight folk, it’s not something I consciously think of when I live my life from day to day, and my family, friends and work colleagues couldn’t give a damn what my sexual orientation is. So, why a thread about LGBT songs? Isn’t it a bit silly to differentiate between straight songs and queer songs? Besides, there are many people who don’t like to be put into boxes and be labelled by their sexual orientation or gender identity. If you're not too familiar with the concept of transgender (or with gender identities and sexual orientations in general), please go to this post below - it might help, as it sheds some light on the spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities that exist. The first three terms have to do with sexual orientation while transgender is about gender identity (transgender people can be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, etc.). arge_2.jpgįor those who don’t know what LGBT stands for, it’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.