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The 50 best gay songs to celebrate Pride all twelvemonth long
Move your hips with these essential gay songs, from unforgettable LGBTQ+ anthems to poignant ballads exploring queer life
Thirty days of summer is a pretty paltry amount of fourth dimension to gloat the LGBTQ+ community. Pride is and then much more a month of parades and celebrations. Information technology's life. And while we'd never balk at an alibi to celebrate everything that Pride stands for, we also believe that any fourth dimension is the perfect time to crank up these gay songs and allow the rainbow flag fly. That'southward why nosotros've assembled a 50-vocal 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 find party anthems, pop songs and techno songs, disco infernos and punk-stone proclamations. No demand to wait for the parade. This is your all-seasons, all-time-great Pride playlist – grab the aux cablevision and play it loud and proud.
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1. 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor
It starts off slowly, shrouded in fear; and so the crush kicks in, the song builds in confidence, and past the stop, at present backed by a cord section, information technology's a full-bore disco anthem of cocky-balls. On its beautiful face up, Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive' is about a adult female getting over the guy who done her incorrect; only in 1978, as gay liberation was gathering steam in heated nightclubs around the world, it also played like a declaration of hard-won pride ('I used to cry / But now I concur my head up high') and independence from the hetero norm ('I'm not that chained-up trivial person still in love with you'). In the 1980s, when AIDS wiped out tens of thousands of those who danced to it, the vocal took on new layers of resonance. Today, 'I Volition Survive' carries all of that baggage, and lifts it up along with the spirits of anyone who hears its message. Did you think we'd crumble? Did you call back nosotros'd lay down and die? Remember over again. Nosotros're going to dance.
2. 'Freedom! '90' by George Michael
6 years after scoring a No. ane hit called 'Freedom' with Wham!, George Michael crushed the charts with this tune of the same name. The redundancy was the bespeak. Michael was destroying his past, writing over it, melting it away with acid house. In the video, the symbols of his 'Organized religion' fame burned and crumbled—his leather jacket, the guitar, the Wurlitzer. The popular star didn't appear in the video himself, instead putting his words in the mouths of godly women from the gilt age of supermodels—Campbell, Evangelista, Turlington, Crawford. The lip-synching proclaimed: Take this vocal, anyone, everyone, information technology is yours. (Though the less said virtually the Robbie Williams version, the better.) When Michael came out, spectacularly, in 1998, the pointed lyrics gained a whole new level of resonance.
3. 'Montero (Telephone call Me By Your Name)' Past Lil Nas 10
Lil Nas X became a legend when he invaded the good ol' boys' country lodge with 'Sometime Town Route'. He became an icon with 'Montero', a supercharged striking dripping with raw sexuality. His unabashed individualism and embrace of hookup civilisation made him a trailblazer in the world of hip hop, just nobody would take paid attending if the song wasn't an accented bop. Nas says he's just here to sin. Giving into the temptation to join him is extra piece of cake when the beat is every bit ill as 'Montero'.
four. 'Faddy' by Madonna
'Expect around: Everywhere you turn is heartache.' That's not exactly a fluffy opening shot for a dance-popular vocal—and that's the point. Recorded at the top of America'southward AIDS crisis and inspired by New York'southward hole-and-corner gay ball scene (famously documented in the 1991 motion picture Paris Is Called-for), Madonna's deep-house–inflected 1990 smash commands you to leave the heavy stuff aside—if only for a few minutes—and find salvation on the trip the light fantastic floor. Nearly a quarter of a century later on, this classic track from i of the nigh dearest gay icons of all fourth dimension sounds no less imperative.
5. 'Queen' by Perfume Genius
Though Seattle vocalist-songwriter Mike Hadreas first came to prominence making delicate, 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 make for a triumphant party banger nearly turning the things other people see as 'broken' into your armor and strength, all achieved with a smirk—'No family unit is safe /When I sashay.'
half-dozen. 'Black Me Out' by Against Me!
Singer Laura Jane Grace has e'er been a revolutionary—come across songs similar 'Baby I'thousand an Anarchist' — simply cipher rebelled every bit hard against the heteropatriarchal terrain of the punk mainstream than her explorations of coming out as a trans woman on her pivotal album ' Transgender Dysphoria Blues'. This song isn't experience-good; information technology'southward a glaring middle finger to those that continue you from presenting your accurate self to the world. Clap back and scream along: 'I want to piss on the walls of your house.'
seven. 'I'k Coming Out' by Diana Ross
Yes, this song is about that kind of 'coming out'. Chic's Nile Rodgers was inspired to write this funky 1980 gem for Diana Ross afterwards seeing multiple drag queens dressed as the iconic singer at a gay disco in New York. For her part, Ross was in the process of extracting herself from her long relationship with Motown when 'I'thou Coming Out' arrived on the charts, giving the vocal additional significance for the music legend. Today, Ross however opens her shows with 'I'm Coming Out', and the song remains a quintessential canticle of liberation—gay or otherwise.
8. 'You Make Me Experience (Mighty Existent)' by Sylvester
A decade after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, openly LGBTQ+ musicians were even so a rarity – at the time, Elton John identified as bi, just he was the exception rather than the rule. Still, flamboyant singer-songwriter Sylvester proved that queerness wasn't incongruous with nautical chart success, thank you to this incredibly infectious 1978 disco archetype, ane of the most beloved and thrilling songs of its era.
9. 'Over the Rainbow' past Judy Garland
For generations who grew up every bit 'friends of Dorothy', yearning to escape into a realm of Technicolor urban fantasy, the tacit gay national canticle was Garland'southward contemplative ballad from 1939'south The Wizard of Oz (with a gorgeous tune by Harold Arlen and touching lyrics by social activist Due east.Y. 'Yip' Harburg). Garland'southward later performances of the song on Idiot box and in concert—older, battered by life, but still dreaming of a happier identify—had even greater ability. Merely even now that so many cupboard doors take 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 similar saluting the rainbow flag.
ten. 'A Little Respect' by Erasure
'What faith or reason could bulldoze a man to forsake his lover?' sings Andy Bong on this stirring synth-pop archetype — a hit for British duo Erasure in 1988, and a perfect, piquant response to the British government's outrageously homophobic Section 28 legislation. Discussion is that at the fourth dimension, Bell would introduce the song onstage saying, 'When I was a fiddling girl, I asked my mummy, 'Can I be gay when I grow upward?' She replied, 'Yep, if you show a little respect.''
11. 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen
Yous'd never guess this emancipation anthem was written by Queen bassist John Deacon and not frontman Freddie Mercury, such is the savour with which Mercury belts information technology out: 'God knows, I've got to intermission free!' Brits didn't bat an center at the video — a parody ofCoronation Street, which has the entire band in elevate, with Mercury equally a horny housewife—just it was banned in the U.Due south. at the time. Par for the course.
12. "Smalltown Male child" by Bronski Crush
Past incorporating unapologetic LGBTQ themes into their sleek synth-pop hits, Bronski Beat were truthful pioneers – and this 1984 archetype is their most transcendent moment. Frontman Jimmy Somerville, in a sensitive falsetto, sings most a lad who flees hometown bullying — 'Run away, turn abroad' 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.
thirteen. 'Y.M.C.A.' past Village People
For any guy who's e'er wanted to be (or sleep with) a cowboy, cop or leather-clad biker, the Hamlet People reign supreme as gay-anthem chart toppers. Songs similar 'Macho Man', 'Get W' (covered brilliantly past the Pet Store Boys), 'Cruisin'' and 'In the Navy' are total of double entendres, and 1978's 'Y.M.C.A.'— which became ane of the almost pop singles of the 1970s — is no different. In fact, the Young Men'due south Christian Association was so appalled at the vocal'southward implications that it threatened to sue, until information technology noticed that membership had significantly increased in the wake of the tune's success. Turns out any press is good press — eh, boys?
14. 'Complimentary' by Ultra Naté
A global boom for trip the light fantastic diva Ultra Naté in 1997, 'Free' offers liberation non as a luxury just as an imperative: 'You've got to live your life — do what you desire to do,' urges the vocalizer. The melancholy guitar riff that kicks off the song gives way to an ecstatic, celebratory chorus that's the musical apotheosis of throwing your easily in the air. And then don't hold back!
15. 'Closer' past Tegan and Sara
With the massive success of this shimmering lead single from 2013'south 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 blow for LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream pop, which has steadily been improving e'er since. The effect? An absolute banger that also helped to move the dial forrard.
16. 'Forrest Gump' by Frank Bounding main
'You run my heed boy,' Frank Bounding main sings on this whistle-kissed, impossibly sweet R&B throwback from his 'Aqueduct Orangish' , the landmark anthology that served as Body of water's introduction to the mainstream pop/R&B/hip-hop world. Taken on its own, 'Forrest Gump' is simply lovely, just information technology's besides simply one piece of the circuitous puzzle that makes Ocean such a bracing, unpredictable and timeless artist.
17. 'Go West' by Pet Shop Boys
When the Village People got all Horace Greeley in 1979, information technology was virtually probable a wink and a nod to the growing gay utopia of San Francisco. By the fourth dimension the Pet Shop Boys covered 'Go West' in 1993, it was something altogether unlike. Coming at a moment after the most devastating years of the AIDS crunch, when the epidemic was improve understood but its futurity was frustratingly unknowable, Neil Tennant's melancholy reading of the song'due south promise-filled lyrics, with backing from a large, all-male choir, finds something unexpectedly moving in a cheesy antiquity.
18. 'Believe' by Cher
Cher's glittering, indelible career has been one unexpected triumph after some other. No one expected her to go an Oscar-winning actress in the 1980s – and no one expected her to score her biggest ever hitting in the late 1990s with this absolutely transcendent society banger. Do you believe in life afterward love? Hell yes! – and we also believe in the power of Cher, whether her glorious foghorn of a voice is Car-Tuned or non.
19. 'It's Raining Men' by the Weather condition Girls
Gay icons Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Cher and Barbra Streisand all turned down Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer'due south campy composition before the Weather Girls snapped it up in 1982. It's incommunicable to imagine any of those more famous singers diving into this ridiculous archetype with the fearlessness and vocal pyrotechnics of former Sylvester backup singers Izora Armstead and Martha Launder, who accept the song over the meridian in the best possible sense.Even Geri Halliwell'due south chart-topping cover version couldn't out-campsite information technology.
20. 'Let's Take a Kiki' by Scissor Sisters
In the summer of 2012, 'Let'southward Have a Kiki' was so ubiquitous in gay bars that it about crossed over into annoying. By the fourth dimension Sarah Jessica Parker sang it on Glee, nosotros were officially over information technology. Only after a brief suspension, information technology's fourth dimension to accept this song for what it is: ` hilarious primer on queer clandestine civilization (equally with 'Faddy', the New York ball scene is the inspiration hither), set to an irresistible techno beat. No wonder information technology got and then large 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; peppery frontwoman Beth Ditto has said the group'southward afterward quantum striking 'Standing in the Way of Control' was penned equally a reaction to President Bush-league's endorsement during the 2004 election wheel of a constitutional subpoena against same-sex marriage, later on all. Just there'southward something about the coincidental 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'm right, I'll say I'm right.'
22. 'All the Lovers' by Kylie Minogue
The Australian popular princess may accept scored her biggest dance-flooring hit with 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', merely euphoric, gorgeous disco swoon 'All the Lovers' really captures the spirit of Pride. Minogue herself has said that the video is an homage to her gay audience; it features a human pyramid of pansexual smooching (in the style of naked-installation artist Spencer Tunick). For skillful measure, in that location's also a galloping white horse, a dove, balloons and an inflatable elephant.
23. 'Supermodel (Y'all Better Work)" by RuPaul'
RuPaul, you are a goddess. The drag queen-slash-mogul debuted this sassy hit in 1992, winning over not but gay fans, but an audience every bit wide every bit that of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who cited the song as one of his favorites a year afterward. RuPaul is full of catchphrases ('lip-synch for your life', anyone?), but the ones in this vocal are amongst her most widely known and widely quoted. Sashay, shantay! Shantay shantay shantay.
24. 'Beautiful' by Christina Aguilera
A connecting link betwixt Cyndi Lauper'due south 'True Colors' and Katy Perry's 'Firework' (both on this listing), Aguilera's 2002 power ballad — written and produced past iv Non Blondes' lesbian hitmaker Linda Perry — proffers affidavit to those who feel they don't fit in. In the video, these include immature people with torso bug, a goth punk, a (biological) man putting on women'southward clothes and two guys tongue-kissing in public. "I am beautiful no matter what they say," Aguilera insists on behalf of all these surrogates. 'Words tin can't bring me down.' But songs tin lift yous up, and this one is a true musical bear witness of solidarity.
25. 'Born This Style' past Lady Gaga
No one has ever campaigned for a gay fan base of operations quite so openly as Lady Gaga, and her 2011 hitting 'Born This Fashion' was her most obvious gift to our demographic. The vocal has its detractors — it'due south basically a rewrite of Madonna's "Express Yourself," it's got some unacceptable lyrics ('Orient'? Really?), and the concept of existence 'born' gay is kind of irrelevant and unsubtle. Still, it's hard non to be moved by its bulletin of self-acceptance, and very few songs sound quite as exciting clarion from a bladder on a Pride parade. An imperfect canticle, but an anthem withal.
26. 'Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)' by C+C Music Manufacturing plant
A gag in a 1997 episode of The Simpsons found a seemingly 'manly' steel mill turning into a flamboyant gay club when this 1990 rails came over the loudspeaker — an indication of just how thoroughly gay this song is. 'Gonna Make Yous Sweat' is the second song on our list featuring the powerhouse vocals of Conditions Girls vocaliser Martha Wash, who never quite achieved mainstream fame (she was replaced in this track's video by C+C Music Mill fellow member Zelma Davis), simply has been dearest by the gay community for decades. And quite right too.
27. 'The Jean Genie' past David Bowie
The copper mullet, the lightning bolt across the confront — 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 year before, in a Melody Maker interview, the glam rocker had declared himself gay. Though he later sloppily retracted the statement in a drug fog (he was living on a rumoured diet of coke, milk and peppers at the time), it remained a momentous occasion in pop music. As 'Mannish Boy' echoed through Mick Ronson's dirty blues riff, the Jean Genie, or Aladdin Sane, or whatever Bowie'southward avatar might accept been at the moment, proved y'all could growl through tough and gnarly rock while sporting perfectly applied lip gloss.
28. 'Viz' by Le Tigre
Before forming her trip the light fantastic-DJ-product project MEN, JD Samson stepped up to the mike equally a member of this electro-rock trio. 'Viz' (2004), almost butch-lesbian visibility, offers an early glimpse of Samson'due south sly humour and her power to brand radical queer politics into trip the light fantastic toe-floor forage. BandmatesJohanna Fateman and Kathleen Hanna – yep, Le Tigre legend Kathleen Hanna – join in on the final chorus for a joyous feminist sing-along.
29. 'Your Loving Arms' by Billie Ray Martin
Near gay dance anthems are packed with drama of both the lyrical and vocal diversity. Merely in 1994, German vocaliser Billie Ray Martin invaded clubland with this icy floor filler that's then at-home she almost seems detached. Don't permit that virtually-monotone fool you, though— Martin is a formidable vocalist, and when she finally cuts loose 'Burning within, called-for inside, yeah!'), it'south a master class in the art of delayed gratification.
30. 'Tainted Love' past Soft Prison cell
Okay, the gay experience is not all about empowerment and acceptance and rainbows and unicorns. Sometimes it's most toxic narcissists who break your heart, and Soft Cell'due south 1981 single — a cover of a semi-forgotten 1964 soul track by Gloria Jones — captures all the acrimony and hurt that unrequited honey tin bring. The confusion, also: 'Don't bear upon me, please / I cannot stand the way you lot tease' quickly relents into a 'Bear on me, baby' fadeout. And gay lead vocaliser Marc Almond gave it a subtle but undeniable edge of queer insider knowledge.
31. 'Metropolis Grrrl' by CSS
Bad girls and gay boys have ever been besties, and this 2011 runway from Brazilian combo Cansei de Ser Sexy is a loving ode to that special relationship. Lead vocalist Lovefoxxx looks back on boyish fantasies of 'being decorated with my job and my gay friends, laughing and drinking with my i-night stands' in the 'big urban center'. Anyone who's ever felt trapped in a modest town (and eventually escaped) will definitely chronicle.
32. 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man Subsequently Midnight)' past ABBA
ABBA may exist almost associated with '70s soft stone, but this galloping disco anthem proved the Swedes could also plough upward the tempo. Singer Agnetha Fältskog wails about the frustration of being lonely (and perhaps horny) late at dark while parked in front of the TV. It's a familiar scenario to anyone who'southward ever spent a long night flipping through Grindr (or Scruff or Manhunt or whatever). And when Madonna wants to sample a song (equally she did for her 2006 hit 'Hung Up', you lot know information technology's institute that social club pop sweet spot.
33. 'Last Dance' by Donna Summer
All good things must come to an end, and Donna Summertime'southward 1978 disco smash is an invitation to exit with a bang. Written for the moving picture Thank God It'southward Friday by gay disco composer Paul Jabara—who won an Oscar for it—the number begins in a sleepy, reflective space, and then rouses itself and its listeners to get back in the swing of things. Non surprisingly, it is often played equally the last tune of a long night, offering one last shot to party like there's no tomorrow (then, tomorrow, to party over 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 embrace that didn't modify the gender pronouns), just the title runway of her 1986 follow-upward endeared her fifty-fifty more to LGBTQ+ listeners tired of being judged for existence different. 'I see your true colors / And that'south why I love yous,' Lauper sings in a voice of tenderness tinged with urgency. 'So don't exist agape to let them evidence / Your true colors are beautiful like a rainbow.' In her long history of gay activism — perhaps no other straight pop star has been more actively engaged on that front end — Lauper has e'er been willing to speak colourful truth to power.
35. 'Come to My Window' by Melissa Etheridge
Four years earlier Ellen alleged, 'Yep, I'm Gay', on the cover of Fourth dimension, Melissa Etheridge titled her 1993 album 'Yes I Am' after publicly coming out equally a lesbian at an inaugural consequence for Bill Clinton. The rocker won a Grammy for this single, an appeal to a lover that'south steeped in tumult and possible secrecy. The terrific span — 'I don't intendance what they think, I don't intendance what they say / What exercise they know well-nigh this love anyway' — seemed 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 society-ready song from the queer non-binary British icon, we all need a chip of fourth dimension for reflection. Smith returns to the balladry that made them famous with this pensive, pianoforte-driven song about the singer'due south struggle to reconcile their identity with their religion. Anyone who'southward ever struggled with that detail duality should feel wholly seen. And anyone who hasn't will nonetheless be left in tears. That's the ability of Sam Smith.
37. 'Walk on the Wild Side' past Lou Reed
With this dry, wry, bass-driven paean to sexual outlaws from his 1972 anthology, 'Transformer', Reed cemented his street cred as the prototype of New York cool. The subjects of his seen-it-all narration are five colourful characters from the crowd that Andy Warhol had declared, 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 hit (though the radio edit scrubbed out a reference to backroom blow jobs), and helped heighten the voltage bar on what was considered shocking.
38. 'Insubordinate Girl' past Bikini Kill
This muscular riot-grrrl canticle finds singer Kathleen Hanna straddling the line between platonic crush ('I think I want to be her best friend') and flat-out sapphism ('In her kiss, I taste the revolution!'). If you want to run into a room full of gay girls (and more than a few boys) lose their shit, play this 1993 classic on the jukebox.
39. 'Sweet Transvestite' past Tim Curry
Anyone looking for an excuse to wearable sexy black lingerie in public institute a perfect one in Richard O'Brien's B-moving picture musical spoof and midnight-movie cult smash The Rocky Horror Flick. Tim Back-scratch's outrageous army camp charisma as the antiheroic Dr. Frank-Northward-Furter — conflicting, mad scientist and deviant seducer in one gartered package — dragged cross-dressing out of the shadows and strutted information technology as a virtue. Shamelessness has never seemed so easy.
40. 'Boxing Cry' by Affections Haze
The super-talented rapper, who identifies as pansexual, doesn't directly address sexuality in this 2nd unmarried from 2013's 'Dirty Gilded' anthology. But the track's themes of working away from a repressive religious upbringing and relying on inner strength to overcome obstacles ('I realized I was a teacher, not just one of the heathens / I'one thousand going to destroy the fallacies, start creating believers'), combined with a seductively uplifting Sia-sung hook, make for queer aureate indeed.
41. 'Hang with Me' by Robyn
Fuck buddies, open relationships, one-night-stands… gays don't have the market on casual sexuality cornered, only we certainly accept it figured out a little better than our straight brethren. Critically adored pop awareness 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' past Mama Cass
Cass Elliott was a big, warm woman with a large, warm voice, and she didn't fit easily into the sleek, absurd world of pop music; she was unlucky in love, and died of a heart attack at 32. Only these are the kinds of things that tin can brand a gay boy honey you even more than. Part good-time gal pal and office maternal effigy, she had credibility in 1969 when—having just concluded her stint with the Mamas and the Papas, which forever tagged her as Mama Cass—she sang Barry Isle of mann and Cynthia Weil's words of encouragement and independence: 'Make your ain kind of music / Even if nobody else sings along.'
43. 'Gay Bar' by Electric Vi
'You! I desire to accept you to a gay bar.' Like many of the tracks on this Detroit trip the light fantastic-stone outfit's 2003 debut ('Burn'), 'Gay Bar' is infectious nonsense. Only its hand-clappy, surf-rock vibe is good 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 brand the song a hit at the…y'all know.
44. "Wut" by Le1f
It's a rare (and brave) thing to be a gay hip-hop artist, simply Le1f is unabashedly queer — and too 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 it the coming of a new banjee rap era? Perchance. Though, as Le1f told Fader, "Gay rap…is not a genre. My goal is ever to make songs that a gay dude or a straight dude tin listen to and just think, This dude has swag." Mission accomplished.—Kate Wertheimer
45. "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" past Sophie B. Hawkins
"I give yous something sweet each time you come within my jungle book," coos omnisexual chanteuse Sophie B. Hawkins in this sensual 1992 hit, an explosive ode to unfulfilled desire that's go a Pride staple. MTV banned the supposedly saucy video, just it'southward the song that sizzles, as this fully clothed just however sexy version attests. —Sophie Harris
46. "I U She" past Peaches
Peaches may be the sexiest human being alive, and the reason is fabricated clear in this song, off 2003'south Fatherfucker: "I don't have to brand the choice / I like girls and I like boys." Never has sexuality been and then 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, fabulous single, from Mika's 2007 Life in Cartoon Motion, is at centre about refusing to change who you are to find acceptance. It's the stuff gay anthems are made of, from the bulletin to the sheer jam-packedness of the music — tap-dancing rhythms, iconic film dialogue, Elton-like piano riffs and campy vocals all work together to create a joyous popular hit. (It likewise doesn't hurt that Mika is such a dreamboat.)—Kate Wertheimer
48. "Finally" by CeCe Peniston
CeCe Peniston's 1991 striking holds upward only fine on its ain, only it'due south been elevated to anthem condition (and makes the cut here) thanks to its inclusion in the 1994 film archetype The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Two decades later, it's impossible to hear this vocal without picturing Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce lip-synching along in their eye-popping elevate getups.—Ethan LaCroix
49. "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
The BBC tried to ban this thumping, boundary-pushing 1984 debut single by Britpop provocateurs Frankie Goes to Hollywood, for sexually suggestive (if disruptive) lyrics like these: "Relax, don't practice information technology / When you lot want to suck to it / Relax, don't do it / When yous want to come up." The vocal'south 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 even more than over-the-top climax; the video was banned by the BBC, also (and MTV). But it didn't matter: The song was a hitting, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood's time had come.—Adam Feldman
50. "You Demand to Calm Down" by Taylor Swift
Taylor has long been an ally, but before Lover she seemed to be cheering from the sidelines. "You Need To Calm Downwards" finds Taylor front end and center, calling out callous bigots and homopobes with lines like " 'shade never made anybody less gay." The bubblebum trounce serves equally much every bit a flippant middle finger to dirtbags as it does a call to the dancefloor for those who aren't. Bonus points for the video featuring an regular army of formerDrag Race contestants... including Taylor impersonator Jade Jolie.
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