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MUSICIANS
OF NOTE
Melissa Etheridge
Elton John
Indigo Girls
KD
Lang
Boy George
Sonia
Ani DeFranco
Rufus Wainwright
Brandi Carlile
GLBT Books
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SONGS AND LYRICS
GLBT Music
Dare to Love by Sean Chapin
Somedays by Audra McDonald
Philadelphia by Tori Amos
All the Things You Said by Tatu
Different Kind of Love Song
The L Word - Marina & Jenny:
Somebody to Love
GLBT MUSICIANS
And Musicians Who Perform Songs With GLBT Themes
Holly Near
Ani DiFranco
Rufus Wainwright
Dar Williams
KD Lang
Melissa Etheridge
Boy George
Janis Ian
Sarah McLachlan
Sonia
Elton John
Indigo Girls
Brandi Carlisle
Shawn Colvin
Catie Curtis
Tatu
MUSIC VIDEOS
LGBT Sights & Sounds
Click to sample these YouTube music
videos of LGBT artists:
Brandi Carlile / Dreams
Brandi Carlile / Turpentine
Brandi Carlile / The Story
Brandi Carlile / Have You Ever
Rufus Wainwright / I'm Going to a
Town
Rufus Wainwright / Rules and
Regulations
Rufus Wainwright / The One You Love
Indigo Girls / Galileo
Indigo Girls / Least Complicated
Indigo Girls / Closer to Fine
Elton John / Your Song
Elton John / Goodbye Yellowbrick
Road
Elton John / Goodbye England's Rose
(Tribute to Princess Diana)
Melissa Etheridge / Come to My
Window
Melissa Etheridge / I Need to Wake Up (From "An Inconvenient Truth" Soundtrack)
Melissa Etheridge / Streets of
Philadelphia
Freddie Mercury & Queen / We Are the
Champions
Freddie Mercury & Queen / Love of My
Life
Freddy Mercury & Queen / Great
Pretender
NEW GLBT MUSIC PLATFORM
AOL Launches GLBT Music
Channel
What is gay music? And why
the sudden influx of entertainment offerings tailored to the GLBT
audience? Will films with gay characters/themes a la Brokeback
Mountain continue to flood the movie box office? Can the gay
marriage ban make you mentally sick or depressed as two new studies
suggest?
Free to anyone on the Web at aol.com/gay, the AOL Gay & Lesbian community includes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adults from across North America. For several years, AOL has strived to celebrate the GLBT community and provide 167,000 monthly visitors a platform to express themselves through photo galleries, blogs, chats, pen pals, personals, message boards and news debates, as well as features around community events like Gay Pride and National Coming Out Day.
To continue growing a strong and loyal GLBT community, AOL is launching
a music area called G-Sides. The new G-Sides music channel spotlights
artists/music that resonate with GLBT audiences. Included are openly gay
artists such as Andy Bell and
Rufus Wainwright, artists with
large gay fanbases like Madonna
and Depeche Mode, and
songs/videos with gay themes like The Strokes' 'Juicebox.'
-GayWired.com
DANCE SONGS
Essential Dance Songs to Celebrate Gay Pride
Perhaps no other popular art form is more closely identified with gay
culture than disco and dance music. Gay men in particular adopted the
intense, loud, throbbing 4/4 beat of dance music that predominated at
the bars and discos that were among the few places where they could
openly express their sexual identities. As the musical backdrop for
generations of gay men who came of age and discovered an entirely new
gay world in such venues, dance music became inextricably connected with
the gay experience. Here is a sampling of the most popular dance
and disco songs associated with gay pride...
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
MFSB - Love is the Message
Ultra Nate - Free
Village People - YMCA
Book of Love - Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls
Carl Bean - I Was Born this Way
KC & the Sunshine Band -
That's the Way I Like It
Gloria Gaynor - I Am What I Am
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
Sylvester - (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real
Johnna - Pride
Village People - Macho Man
Book of Love - Boy Pop
Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
C&C Music Factory - Pride (A Deeper Love)
Weather Girls - It's
Raining Men
Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
George Michael - Freedom '90
Donna Summer - Last Dance
Barry Harris / Pepper Mashay - I Got My Pride
Village People - Go West
Abba - Dancing Queen
Tom Robinson Band - Glad to Be Gay
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
GLBTQ Encyclopedia: Disco
& Dance Music
Gay Info: Gay Classic
Top 100
LESBIAN SONGS
Leaping
(Lesbians) by Sue Fink & Joclyn Grippo
Amazon ABC by Alix Dobkin
Imagine My Surprise, by Holly Near
Sweet Woman, by Chris Williamson
Ode To a Gym Teacher, by Meg Christian
Surprise (I`m a Lesbian) by Paula Walowitz
Rosalie, by Bonnie Hayes, performed by Teresa Trull
Womanly Way, by Linda Tillery
Older Women, by Lynn Lavner
Mademoiselle, by Lucie Blue Tremblay
Sistership, by Faith Nolan
Woman-Loving Woman by Theresa Trull
The Lesbian Power Authority, by Alix Bobkin
The Camp Song, by Dos Fallopia
I wish I was a Lesbian, by 2 nice girls
Glory Glory (I'm a lesbian), annon
SONG LYRICS
Gentle
Angry People
By Holly Near
We are a gentle angry people, and we are singing, singing for our lives. We are a justice seeking people, and we are singing, singing for our lives. We are young and old together, and we are singing, singing for our lives. We are a land of many colors, and we are singing, singing for our lives. We are gay and straight together, And we are singing, singing for our lives. We are a gentle, loving people, And we are singing, singing for our lives. I Want to be Free to be Me By Lucie Blue Tremblay So many people in the world, alone in their own way, tired of hiding, silence is dying. I want you to know who I really am, I want to be free to be me with you, and if you love me as much as I love you, then you`ll love me even if I`m not like you. So many people are so afraid, there`s so much to understand, so I take a chance now, it`s important to me that I tell you, so please sit down. I`m not saying we should agree on everything,
`cause we all live our own lives. I want you to know who I really am, I want to be free to be me with you, And if you love me as much as I love you, then you`ll love me, even if I`m not like you.
I am What I am from La Cage Aux Folles I am what I am, I don`t need praise, I don`t need pity, I bang my own drum, Some call it noise, I call it pretty. And so what if I love each bauble and each bangle, Why not try to see things from a different angle? Your life is a sham 'till you can shout out, "I am what I am!" I am what I am, and what I am needs no excuses. I deal my own deck, sometimes the ace, sometimes the deuces. And there's no return and no deposit, so it's time to open up your closet! Life's not worth a damn, 'till you can say, "Hey, world, "I am what I am!"
Glad To Be Gay
By Tom Robinson
The British Police are the
best in the world, I don't believe one of these stories I've heard,
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all, Lining the customers
up by the wall,
Picking out people and knocking them down, Resisting arrest as they're
kicked on the ground,
Searching their houses and calling them queer, I don't believe that sort of thing happens here.
Sing if you're glad to be
gay, Sing if you're happy that way.
Pictures of naked young
women are fun, In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun,
There's no nudes in Gay News our last magazine, But they still find
excuses to call it obscene,
Read how disgusting we are
in the press, The News of The World and the Sunday Express,
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth, It's there in the paper, it
must be the truth.
Sing if you're glad to be
gay, Sing if you're happy that way.
Don't try to kid us that
if you're discreet, You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street,
You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks, To get beaten
unconscious and left in the dark ,
I had a friend who was gentle and short, Got lonely one evening and went
for a walk ,
Queerbashers caught him and kicked in his teeth, He was only
hospitalised for a week .
Sing if you're glad to be
gay, Sing if you're happy that way.
So sit back and watch as
they close all our clubs, Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs,
Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21, So only your friends and your
brothers get done,
Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks, Put down the queens and tell
anti-queer jokes,
Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter, 'The buggers are legal now,
what more are they after?'
Sing if you're glad to be gay, Sing if you're happy that way.
Glory Glory: Gay & Lesbian Song Anonymous Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the queers Homophobes have trampled on our rights, They`ve done so out of fear We have loosed our rising anger and now it`s plainly clear
That gays are marching on Glory, glory I`m a lesbian Glory, glory I`m a gay man Glory, glory I`m a homosexual I am truth marching on In our homes and on street corners we have been condemned to die We were murdered in the Holocaust by Hitler and his lies AIDS is killing all our people whom the governmetn denies But gays are marching on In the beauty of our loving we have let ourselves be free We will heal our wounds through justice for all humanity We will deny not our freedom or our sexuality We will keep marching on
Innocence Maintained
(Excerpt)
by Jewel
We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's
souls may be seen and made safe.
Be careful with each other. These fragile flames.
For innocence can't be lost. It just needs to be maintained.
I want to live bravely and love without fear.
I want always to feel the wings of grace near.
We Shall Be Free
by Garth Brooks
When the last child cries for a crust of bread,
When the last man dies just for words that he's said,
When there's shelter over the poorest head,
Then we shall be free
When we're free to love anyone we choose,
When this world's big enough for all different views,
When we all can worship from our own kind of pews,
Then we shall be free
When the last thing we see is the color of skin,
And the first thing we look for is the beauty within,
When the skies above are clear again,
Then we shall be free
When money talks for the very last time,
And nobody walks a step behind,
When there's only one race and that's mankind,
Then we shall be free
American Triangle
Dedicated to Matthew Shepherd
By Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Seen him playing in his backyard, Young boy just starting out,
So much history in this landscape, So much confusion, so much doubt.
Been there drinking on
that front porch, Angry kids, mean and dumb,
Looks like a painting, that blue skyline, God hates fags where we come
from.
'Western skies' don't make
it right, 'Home of the brave' don't make no sense,
I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire, Left to die on a high ridge
fence.
It's a cold, cold wind, It's a cold, cold wind, It's a cold wind
blowing, Wyoming.
See two coyotes run down a
deer, Hate what we don't understand,
You pioneers give us your children, But it's your blood that stains
their hands.
Somewhere that road forks
up ahead, To ignorance and innocence,
Three lives drift on different winds, Two lives ruined, one life spent.
Talking to My
Angel
By Melissa Etheridge
Don't be afraid, Close your eyes, Lay it all down, Don't you cry
Can't you see I'm going where I can see the sun rise
I've been talking to my angel, And he said that it's alright
I've always had to run, I don't know just why,
Desire slowly smoking,
Under the midwest sky
There's something waiting out there that says I've got to try
I've been talking to my angel, And he said that it's alright
This town thinks I'm crazy, They just think I'm strange
Sometimes they want to own me, Sometimes they wish I'd change
But I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
I sold my soul for freedom, It's lonely but it's sweet
Don't be afraid, Close your eyes, Lay it all down, Don't you cry
Can't you see I'm going where I can see the sun rise
I've been talking to my angel, And he said that it's alright