June is Gay Pride Month. It was 1969 when LGBTQ+ anger against New York police brutality exploded stone wall motionsThe night that changed history. This was the beginning of the gay liberation movement, which is proudly remembered today.
So let’s celebrate love without discrimination in June by listening to historical or recent songs on homosexuality and feelings LGBTQ+, here you are leading songslittle known, but also recent hits In which new queer generations emerge more casually, not without internal disagreements and walls still to be hammered. Here, above all, love verses, grateful or painful, and other releases. The proudly LGBTQ+ singer is wrestling with her emotions.
Here are 10 gay and LGBTQ+ love songs.
that’s what I want (2021) by Lil Nas X
In a traditionally macho and homophobic musical environment like rap, lil nas x It is a success. In the fame of 2018, the year after coming out. First openly gay black rapper Queer hip hop’s pioneer is pretty straight forward, to capture the top of the US charts. in single that’s what I want Montero sings on his first studio album from 2021: “I need a boy who can snuggle with me all night / Keep me warm, love me long, be my sunshine” (“For a boy like this Need someone who can stay / keep me all night) warm me, love me longer, be my sunshine). A video between pink overalls, black muscle hands and condom is even more obvious.
she is my heroine (1996) by Skunk Anansi
“I just can’t cry / She’s my heroine / Fingers going down”, sung skins in 1996, when he defined Badass Anansie A group “clit rock,
The British singer, who radiates a disruptive energy on stage and flashes a big smile in interviews, has always been candid about revealing that she has had relationships with both men and women. “I am proud to be called lesbianmore to be said Bisexual, Don’t call me heterosexual,’ he protested in the 1990s. at the same time with she is my heroine One of the most intense gay love songs with belligerent and soulful vocals that pierce the chest.
Valery (1979) by Alfredo Cohen
“Sweet love, who offends you?” The opening chords of one of the most hidden masterpieces in Italian music. Alfredo CohenThe stage name of gay extremist Alfredo D’Aloisio, who died in 2014, he embroidered in his short songwriting career ValeryA magnetic and at times enigmatic piece, sometimes remembered more for advertising Alexanderplatz by Franco Battiato than its daring originality. it’s really devoted transsexual valery tacarelli, then coed of the singer, is now an activist and member of the Transsexual Identity Movement. «I was 15 when he started taking care of me, to protect me like a child. The next year he asked me to move to him in Rome”, Valerie told GENEuse.
The song had no resonance, but in 1981 Battiato asked Cohen if he could use it, changing the title and words to: Mileva We know that became a success.
bloom (2018) by Troye Sivan
Troye SivanQueer Pop’s Golden Boy Has Made His Own Coming out The public ten years ago, barely of age. Although gay music stars had already begun to reveal their sexual identities in the 90s, it took some time before – with exceptions – gender became explicit in lyrics as well.
Australian pop stars now specialize in celebrating Same-sex relationships in their ups and downs,
bloom is the song that gives the title to her second album, released in 2018 and, like our Christina Donna did 15 years ago, it talks about opening her garden to love… “Visit my garden my I’ve got a lot to show you fountains and waters” (Take a trip to my garden I’ve got a lot to show you fountains and waters), “And, boy, I’ll meet you there” (And, boy, I See you there).
It is considered by some to be the most subversive gay song on record, in reference to anal sex, When Sivan was asked what the lyrics of the song meant, he replied with a wink: “It’s 100% about flowers.”
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come to my window (1993) by Melissa Etheridge
It was 1993. By silencing gossip and outings, Melissa Etheridge he just confessed his homosexuality and yes i, their fourth album, followed that success. rock ballad come to my window was the first single from the album, with its first video coming out (with Juliette Lewis playing a mental patient).
Also thanks to the gay rights driving force, the song received considerable radio airplay. he won a Grammy Award For Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Carved Like iconic piece of the gay community American. “Come to my window / Crawl inside / Wait by the moonlight,” Etheridge sings in her smoky vocals.
Now 62 years old, in her autobiography Rockuesz explained that when composing the text she did not realize what she was actually writing and that too after meeting tammy lynn michaelsHis current wife, understood what it meant come to my window for other people.
forest gump (2012) by Frank Ocean
In full ascent, when the first rumors about his sexual orientation began to circulate following a masculine pronoun used in a song, Frank Ocean He didn’t think twice and in 2012, he published a coming out letter that marked a turning point for the black LGBTQ+ community in the United States.
in sweet and playful song forest gumpfrom their debut studio album channel orangeR&B singer compares movie character to A teen crushWith ionic homo references.
our concert (1960) by Umberto Bindi
60s, even. our concert it’s a song poignant and enchanting70 Infinite Seconds with a very long instrumental intro, which was incredibly successful, debuting in the charts for ten weeks.
Even if the words do not openly address a man, addressing a genderless person, umberto bindiopenly gay and a pioneer of gay visibility, addressed her dead comrade: “Wherever you are, if you listen ahead of you, you will see me again”.
The Ligurian singer-songwriter felt compelled to make a bold coming out in Little Italy, which promptly banned him. Sanremo in 1961, when he performed with don’t tell me who you areWritten for her by Gino Paoli, the press and public focused more on the ring she wore on her finger than on the melody, which was seen as a confirmation of her heterosexuality. it was neglected and forgottenis paying dearly for his honesty.
I think (2018) by Janelle Monae
I think is a hilarious celebration of joyful sexual fluidityA bisexual fever dream. Janelle MonaeA funk hip hop singer with innovative sounds, declared herself pansexual in 2018 with apparent naturalness, hence “sexually free”.
single from their third studio album dirty computer of 2018, I think finds its maximum playful and free representation in the corresponding video with the actress Tessa ThompsonSultry and handsome, among Monae’s love interests.
Outside (1998) by George Michael
The scam broke out: George MichaelIn 1998, the sexy and macho ex-Wam was arrested in Beverly Hills for indecent exposure in a public bathroom, solicited by a plainclothes policeman. Stanato reacts to the cacophony in an epic way Outsidea song that was his own at the time music coming out And gave the slogan of freedom to the world. He sang ‘Let’s go out into the sunshine I know you want to, but you can’t say yes’.
The video was a masterful operation of turning insults into humor and a successful creative operation.
war child (1983) by Tom Robinson
And here is a song that is almost unknown in Italy. war child, Released as a single in 1983 and then included on the following albums hope and gloryreached number six in the UK chart. Tom RobinsonBritish musician and LGBTQ+ activist from the 1970s, best known for his gay anthems joy of being gay From 1978, a raw and still-current folk-rock ballad that explores what it means to be a gay man who lives under the constant fear of social disapproval. And it doesn’t matter that today Robinson declares himself to be bisexual and is married to a woman.
although it is war babyPerhaps his most interesting song, written in a time of panic and economic hardship as the words flowed, drunk, one after another bad experience in a gay bathroom Germany divided by the wall. The opening verse ‘Only the very young and the very beautiful can be so different’ is the beginning of a creative floodgate where war and love intersectDrifting on two parallel tracks: the threat of conflict on the one hand, a relationship taking a bad turn on the other.