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Songs From My Queer Life That Speak To Me
Dancing Queen - ABBA "Dancing queen, only seventeen" ABBA is a key band to include on any LGBT playlist. While their lyrics may not exactly describe queer experiences, they have always been icons. This is partly contributed to their out of the box, 'campy' style. The use of the term "Queen" in the song can also easily be interpreted as the queer term originally used to refer to a flamboyant, effeminate gay man.
By Theo Randall5 years ago in Pride
My Big Gay Country Playlist
Country music has never been known as a culturally progressive genre. This is why it serves as such an important touchstone to measure social change. If country music is becoming more inclusive, that means there is hope for the rainbow flag even in the deepest set, most traditional parts of our nation.
By Robyn Reisch5 years ago in Pride
You've Got Pride: A Playlist
The stories below are all fictional but come from a place of observation, love, and acceptance. I hope the songs manage to dance as they sway their ways into your thoughts, and maybe the stories you find here will make you feel a little less alone.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Pride
Melancholia In Time Of Dancing & Bears
People shouldn't be open about their sexuality. Cis folk don't worry about it, and LGBTQ+ folk shouldn't worry as well. By not being heterosexual, we have the added stress that we need to reveal our sexual preference(s). At 48 years old, I am still not open about my sexuality. Family and some friends still think that I'm waiting for a woman to make an honest man out of me.
By Will Coronel5 years ago in Pride
Top Five Underrated LGBT Songs
Many and all that are part of the LGBT campaigns, rights and communities across the globe should and will always be respected, this time more than ever during these dark and difficult times of racism, political manoeuvres, government difficulties and of course during the pandemic.
By CJ Enterprise5 years ago in Pride
High Notes In The Shower
I swear I use to battle with myself on what I was suppose to like growing up. I somehow found women so attractive and it killed me to think I was weird or nasty. I remembered how I crushed so hard on a girl when I was in the 8th grade. I couldn't really shake the feeling of liking a girl. Maybe I was born that way. I would come home from school and hop straight in the shower. I would have my speaker on the opposite side of the curtain and I would sing to the top of my lungs. I never really knew if I sounded good or not; nobody ever complained. My song playlist would go on for ever and all my greatest hits would play. I would sing and think about my crush. I swear my music helped me understand my new found attraction to other girls like me. Then as I got older I heard Lady Gaga's "Born this Way".. I just knew she made that song for me.
By Dominique Gray5 years ago in Pride
Proud to be Bisexual and Proud to be married to a Heterosexual Man.
I didn't come out as bisexual for a really long time. In fact, my own mother has never met any of the girlfriends I had before I married, though she has met many of my past boyfriends (many of who she didn't like!). I didn't even know what bisexuality was when I was young, I just knew that I had an attraction to both men and women that went beyond sex. It was deeply emotional, psychological, sexual and extremely strong. I couldn't describe it or put a name on it. I just knew that I was more than capable of loving both.
By Carol Ann Townend5 years ago in Pride
