OUT's "The Gayest Summer Hits of the Last 30 Years"

trying to think of gay associations I have with these songs, all I can come up with is:

--first heard "Call Me Maybe" at a Miss New Mexico Pride event
--hearing "Lovegame" all the time made me hate gay clubs when I first started going to them
--my husband loves "Doesn't Really Matter", rare musical common ground for us
--older patrons at queer library I work at were praising the gruesome "Stay With Me" and thanked me when I provided the name of the singer -- forgive me!

guess it's Janet for me.

"Stay With Me" is as bad as it gets on this list. I wish Lenny Kravitz put out a summer hit in 2014.

Robin S. is the clear choice here.

One of these:

George Michael – “I Want Your Sex” (No. 6, 1987)
Robin S. – “Show Me Love” (No. 9, 1993)
TLC – “Waterfalls” (No. 1, 1995)
Brandy & Monica – “The Boy Is Mine” (No. 1, 1998)
Janet Jackson– “Doesn’t Really Matter” (No. 4, 2000)
Missy Elliott ft. Ciara & Fat Man Scoop – “Lose Control”

Ooops -- I meant "Monkey."

I don't think I have any directly gay associations with any of these songs, aside from being dismayed by the lax standards of who gets to claim gay icon status re: Katy and Miley.

"i love you always forever" by donna lewis is the greatest song ever made in the history of recorded music, therefore i voted for "i love you always forever" by donna lewis

also wtf out magazine re: the last 3 songs

gay imo

https://media.giphy.com/media/cnRWtyeYufppC/giphy.gif

I'm a big fan of that Donna Lewis song

the single release of I Love You Always Forever came with a "Philly remix" which basically makes the song into an even more lush disco strut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVDVd9ViDQE

i love that thank you

I tolerate now. In 1996 I would have started a nuclear war with North Korea to avoid hearing it on the radio.

alfred between this revelation and the whitney thread I'm beginning to wonder if you even enjoy pleasure

Pleasure can deceive.

alfred between this revelation and the whitney thread I'm beginning to wonder if you even enjoy pleasure

― boxedjoy, Friday, June 9, 2017 8:08 PM

DON'T YOU WANNA DANCE?

Hahaha I suppose I'm gay because I love almost every one of these songs.

Even then I wish this list was more focused in LGBT artists. Gay clubs love Top 40 radio so if all it takes to make it into this list is to be a summer hit then Billboard can make almost this exact same list if you take their yearly "summer anthems".

But then we might end with more songs like "stay with me" which doesn't qualify as summer song unless you live in one of those countries where you get 3 months of sun and you feel suicidal most of the time.

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I think "Show Me Love" is maybe the objective answer but Donna and Vanessa both speak to my deepest inner most soul.

Tim...

do you love the monkey or do you love them?

An extremely offensive list. They should be ashamed of themselves.

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Justice.

I missed this poll

enjoying that Donna Lewis song is sort of like enjoying the Delilah radio show