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There are so many I can think of and so many associations with each song. How about “Damn! I Wish I Was Your Lover” by Sophie B. Hawkins. It sounded like nothing else at the time and seems to me queer coded from start to finish. 😃
There are so many I can think of and so many associations with each song. How about “Damn! I Wish I Was Your Lover” by Sophie B. Hawkins. It sounded like nothing else at the time and seems to me queer coded from start to finish. 😃
Cherry - Rina Sawayama
I was just thinking about this list that I published a few years back at Rolling Stone. It makes me cringe in some ways (we had to be more "mainstream" than I typically would be), but it also shows the cultural machine that creates this stuff... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/25-essential-lgbtq-pride-songs-199348
Luckily we also put together this one: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/musics-unsung-lgbtq-heroes-629374/
Can’t forget the obvious… Bronski Beat “Small Town Boy”, Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun”…
oh man such good songs. and I used to wail along to Violent Femmes sooooo hard