Best LGBT song :)

Banbha32

So what is everyones favourite LGBT song. I just discovered my new favourite gay anthem

Cupcakke - LGBT

https://youtu.be/hu_XwnAiMXg

JupiterKid

Constant Craving - K.D. Lang

Small town Boy - Bronski Beat
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B Hawkins

Ten of Swords

Banbha I'll admit I had to do a double take when I saw the artist name! I'm such a bad gay!

JupiterKid wrote: »

Small town Boy - Bronski Beat

Ha, I heard the dance version of this a few weeks ago

CHOOOOOON :D:D:D:D:D:D

flowerbattle

Rise Like A Phoenix!

Heebie

Joe Jackson's "Real Men" comes to mind.

Ash885

Sometimes I think parody songs are great anthems, mainly because they're topical, have a message, bit smutty and absolute ear worms.

Case example:

If we're talking about artists, love the Indigo Girls.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d89h5jLF0k0

JackTaylorFan

Oh so many... Just a few off the top of my head...

George Michael - Faster Love
George Michael - An Easier Affair
Basically everything George Michael ever did
Tori Amos' entire 90's output
Placebo - Burger Queen
Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross
Soft Cell - Say Hello/Wave Goodbye
Belle & Sebastian - Lord Anthony
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Erasure - A Little Respect
Rufus Wainwright - Oh What A World
Prince (Before he was converted) - Uptown
Christopher Street - Brian Kennedy

baby and crumble

Glacier by John Grant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BzvWPYo94

TC & Honeybear- also John Grant (TBH JohnGrant is just awesome).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTS0eivFZBY

Curiosity- KD Lang (I can't find a youtube version- spotify link here)

Man Enough by Katastophe- Spotify link

In or Out by Ani Difranco (again, most stuff from Ani Difranco tbh!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCcGhwasbAw

JupiterKid

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (1984). Sums up being gay in 1980s Thatcher UK. Different world then but many aspects of the song still apply today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7-q1WRaKNg

Lorelli!

Walk on the Wild Side is a good one. The characters in the song are apparently based on real life people that Lou Reed knew who had some involvement with Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory.

Professor Moriarty

The original and best:

JackTaylorFan

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

The original and best:

Questionable narrative. Of its time, perhaps.

Either way as a transwoman, I find it gross.

Lorelli!

Anthony and the Johnson's has some nice ones although I don't think his sound would be to everyone's taste. I'm not sure if this first song is about breast cancer or being transgender. Can be interpreted either way.

Swedish electronic musician Fever Ray's album Plunge released late last year has a lot of lyrics alluding to the "queer reawakening" she has experienced herself in recent years. A lot of her lyrics are quite ambiguous and mysterious, but on the beautiful and touching song "A Part of Us" there are definite references to the LGBT community and to feelings of acceptance and togetherness she's found since embracing her queerness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAoCsfNdGE

I dig, I plant a walnut tree
I pour a lot of water in

Staring us
No disrespectful gaze
Centre of attention
Happy drunk, happy in a safe space

So proud to be a part of us
A chosen family
To love, to trust

Your eyes on me
We know, we know
Stay till tomorrow, then you can go
A taste of lion's paw, locked jaw
Stay here in the morning
How we're making love

I dig, I plant a walnut tree
I pour a lot of water in

No time for
There's a change in the atmosphere
What we are
Brings the wrong kind of attention out here

So aware
What's wrong with you, the morning mist
Cold, wet air
One hand in yours and one hand in a tight fist

I dig, I plant a walnut tree
I pour a lot of water in

If you want a more.....um....explicit example, watch the (somewhat NSFW) video for To The Moon and Back. Note: may contain robot BDSM tea parties! (There's a sentence I never thought I'd type :pac: )

Lorelli!

There's nothing particular said in this song but I think I remember reading that Boy George wrote it and many of the Culture Club songs about a secretive affair that he was having at the time with the band's drummer.