Gay/Lesbian Popular Music

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Pete Shelley's Homosapien was a big hit. I've been told it reached number one in Australia. Surely the following lyrics are quite explicit unlike some of the songs mentioned that could be interpreted in a number of ways.

I'm the shy boy
You're the coy boy
And you know we're
Homosapien too
I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Me and you sir
Homosapien too
Homosuperior
In my interior
But from the skin out
I'm homosapien too
And you're homosapien too
And i'm homosapien like you
And we're homosapien too

― Amarga (Amarga), Saturday, 11 October 2003 09:55 (twenty years ago) link

And it's a great goddamn song!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

a better question might be what pop songs DON'T have any gay connotations.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 11 October 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

"i kissed a girl"
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, November 5, 2002 5:09 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ahead of the times

― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Sunday, 14 December 2008 07:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Agreed on "Boys keep swinging" and "Queen Bitch", but I'd always read "John I'm Only Dancing" to mean he was dancing with John's girl and he didn't want to piss him off. Now that I think about it, I was wrong, damn you heterosexism! I wouldn't quite call it overtly gay though, as the most prominent lyric is "she turns me on".

― Whitey on the Moon, Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Anyone ever do a song in Polari?

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link

three years pass...

If a male comedian/talk-show host in 2012 were to make a joke about lesbians' musical tastes, who would be lazily name-checked? Would it still be Melissa Etheridge/Indigo Girls?

― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link

Justin Bieber

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link

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