Guru’s Wildcard Picks: High 5 for turning 45: Studio Killers – Jenny (I Wanna Ruin Out Friendship) Revolting Cocks – Beers, Steers, & QueersĢ0. It was so hard to choose songs and to order them so I started with what I felt was the only proper place to start for A and B lists and then basically went alphabetically as opposed to sonically and 24 for being born on the 24th! PopOff!’s MixCloud Pride Parade:ġ2. Also, I hope these playlists can be served as an easy link to share so people young and old can get a little bit of an education that being queer in music isn’t new but it is certainly much more “out” and remind everyone that rainbows do their magic all year long. But as is always the case I’m all over the map. For the A-list I wanted to lean more into songs that spoke more directly about gender and the public and personal stories associated with it. There were some 400-plus nominations and I’m sure I probably missed some while scrolling (so apologies).
#GAY PRIDE SONGS 2020 UPDATE#
It would have been so easy to lean on our gay icons and the traditional anthems I hear every year at the mall in June but I felt it was time to update the pantheon of songs and artists in the vaulted rainbow hall and explore gender (and sex) in music with this new colour palette.
#GAY PRIDE SONGS 2020 FULL#
And the music videos can really tell some moving truths or go full camp.
#GAY PRIDE SONGS 2020 CODE#
Now everyone has a voice (and a flag) and musicians don’t have to cloak or code the language they can be as coy or as explicit as they want to. But the music was still often very coded. Lang were present, plus my boyfriend man crush George Michael was oozing gay sexuality in a way that had not been present on MTV and radio prior. But thankfully in the 90s Melissa Etheridge and folks like The Indigo Girls and K.D.
Granted the straight divas were our voice in the public and the voices of acceptance when we didn’t have one. Likewise, it also took mainstream music a while to give us options beyond the camp of Village People or the spectacle of Diana Ross, Kylie, and even Beyonce in the mainstream music realm. I was queer even without a letter and whether or not I put on the theatrics of “coming out”. The most important thing I learned through this new technology was that I had the option to not use a label at all. It took much longer than it should have for me and my friends to discover the many options but thanks to the internet and social media it did happen. We had one rainbow (and not even the original 8-stripe rainbow). I only ever heard it called the gay community and we only ever went to the lone gay club in our area. There was not the multitudes of flags upon flags like we see today. You were either gay or straight (and one was the wrong one). Dance remixes of diva anthems could save your life.Ģ. We’re Here, We’re Queer, And Look At All These Options… !Īs a teen queer in the 90s surviving in the conservative backwoods just outside a major (much more friendly) city I knew two things.ġ.