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10 Guitar Songs to Blast During Pride Month
By Brian Caples
In honor of Pride Month, we scoured all corners of the rock world to create a Spotify playlist of badass guitar songs featuring LGBTQ+ musicians. Whether you’re a metalhead, indie darling, or even an alt-country rocker, there’s bound to be something in this Event song list for you. Some of the choice cuts are listed below, but you can check out the full playlist here.
As always, this list is not ranked – all of these artists merit your ear!
10 Guitar Songs to Blast During Event Month
Judas Priest
"The Hellion/Electric Eye"
Okay, maybe we’re cheating here since these are technically two songs, but this one-two punch off of 1982’s Screaming for Vengeance works too adv to separate. When performed live, Judas Priest lead singer and openly homosexual heavy metal titan Rob Halford has often paired these tracks with explosive pyrotechnics and the occasional on-stage Harley to create an atmosphere that is as extravagant and memorable as he is.
These days, Halford spends his time advocating for LGBTQ+ acceptance in rock and metal, preparing for the J
Thirty days of summer is a pretty paltry window of day to celebrate the LGBTQ+ people, and Pride is so much more than a month of parades and celebrations – it’s life. And while we’d never baulk at an excuse to celebrate everything that Pride stands for, we also believe that any time is the flawless time to crank up these gay songs and fly that rainbow flag.
That’s why we’ve assembled a 50-song playlist perfectly calibrated for Pride Month and beyond, featuring some of history’s greatest queer artists and LGBTQ+ allies who pay more than lip service. You’ll find party anthems, pop songs, disco infernos and punk-rock proclamations, so there’s no need to wait for the parade. This is your all-seasons, all-time-great Pride playlist. Grab the aux cable and blast it loud and proud.
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42 Loud and Proud LGBTQ Anthems
Art is just a reflection of life, and that includes love and all its incarnations. So it makes sense that artists would write and sing about the love in their lives and their sexual orientations.
There's no one way to define or categorize a song as "LGBTQ." To do so could be counterintuitive to the very idea of what an LGBTQ song usually represents: personal independence, liberation from systemic constraint and an overall meaning of freedom.
In the below list of 42 Raucous and Proud LGBTQ Anthems, you'll find songs that are related to existence LGBTQ. Some were written about partners, others about the struggle to be true to yourself. Some songs weren't necessarily written with any of that in mind but include nonetheless become popular tracks within the LGBTQ group - symbols of liberty and joy.
1. David Bowie, "Rebel Rebel"
From: Diamond Dogs (1974)
David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel" may be the quintessential ode to androgyny, starting at the top: "You've got your mother in a whirl / She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl." The song was released j
10 LGBTQ+ Rock & Metal Songs to Blast in the Face of Florida’s Governor
The Parental Rights in Education bill, which has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by LGBTQ+ activists, was recently passed by both Florida’s Senate and Home. If this extremely detrimental bill is signed into rule, it would limit what classrooms can teach about sexual orientation and gender identity. In outcome, this would essentially erase the being alive of the Diverse community in Florida’s pedagogy.
There is no doubt about it: if passed, this law will damage queer youth. It perpetuates the thought that students should be ashamed of and suppress who they are. In addition, LGBTQ+ youth already face a higher risk of bullying, depression and suicide. A commandment like this will only serve to further isolate juvenile queer kids.
Although Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t explicitly said he will sign the bill, he has said he supports it.
Thus, we would like to offer to you a list of 10 LGBTQ+ rock and metal songs that you can blast in the faces of Florida’s homophobic politicians.
We hope that this list (which probably includes some of your favorite artists, such as Jud