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FEATURED LGBT MUSIC

Song List of Pick Hits

It Gets Better by Broadway Stars
This is the New Year by Ian Axel
I Just Want to Be OK by Ingrid Michaelson
You're a Firework by Katy Perry

Dare to Love by Sean Chapin
I Am What I Am by Karen Mulder
Somedays by Audra McDonald
When She Loved Me by Sarah McLachlan
Philadelphia by Tori Amos
Dear Mr. President by Pink
All the Things You Said by Tatu
Imagine by Lady Gaga at HRC National Dinner
Different Kind of Love Song
It's a Beautiful Day by Freddie Mercury & Queen
The L Word - Marina & Jenny: Somebody to Love

OUT MUSIC AWARDS
Honoring Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge, Chely Wright

November 20, 2010

Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge and Chely Wright are among the artists to be honored next month during the LGBT Academy of Recording Arts' (LARA) 2010 OUTMUSIC Awards.

The twentieth iteration of the annual show will be held in the heart of Times Square at Town Hall NYC on December 1, also World AIDS Day.

Singer and gay ally Lauper will received the OUTMUSIC Icon Award, openly lesbian rocker Etheridge will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, and country music star Wright, who came out gay earlier this year, will be honored with the Vanguard Award, which will be presented by country singer-actress Dolly Parton via video.

The event will be hosted by comedians Julie Goldman and Jonny McGovern (the Gay Pimp), stars of Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show. Comedian Tammy Peay, known as Ms Peay, will co-host the event. And Broadway legend Carol Channing and musical great Melba Moore are expected to put in special appearances.

The OUTMUSIC Awards celebrates, honors and documents the contributions of openly gay recording artists and performers.

LINKS:

On Top: Out Music Awards to Honor Lauper, Etheridge, Wright
Out Music: Alliance of LGBT Recording Artists & Performers
Out Music Awards

MUSICIANS & SONGS
Musicians Who Perform Songs With LGBT Themes

Lady Gaga
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

Brandi Carlile / Dreams
Brandi Carlile / Turpentine
Brandi Carlile / The Story
Brandi Carlile / Have You Ever
Chely Wright / It Was
Chely Wright / Never Love You Enough
Chely Wright / Single White Female
Chely Wright / Like Me

Chely Wright's Emotional Coming Out on Ellen Show
Chely Wright Home Page
Music Mix: Chely Wright's Decision to Come Out

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
Freddie Mercury & Queen / Great Pretender
Freddie Mercury & Queen / We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions

LGBT MUSIC PLATFORM
AOL Features LGBT Music Channel

What is gay music? And why the sudden influx of entertainment offerings tailored to the LGBT 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 LGBT 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 LGBT community, AOL features a music area called G-Sides. The new G-Sides music channel spotlights artists/music that resonate with LGBT 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

LINKS:

GLBTQ Encyclopedia: Disco & Dance Music
Gay Info: Gay Classic Top 100

LESBIAN SONGS
Music for Women

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), Annonymous

SONG LYRICS
LGBT Musical Messages

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 government 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

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