Well, here it is. Sorry I took so long in posting it, but I was without access to my account for about a week, due to system back-ups, etc. But here it is, the promised list of those titles people posted on the Queer Songs thread. Surely some songs have been left out and should have included and vice versa. I simply took what people posted and removed the duplicate titles (tho' I may have missed a few). So here is it. QUEER SONGS LIST AS POSTED BY CONTRIBUTORS TO SOC.MOTSS (compiled by Terrance Heath-heath@phoenix.cs.uga.edu) (in no particular order....) Rod Stwewart - "The Ballad of Sister George" Barbra Striesand - "The Way He Makes Me Feel" (from Yentl, sung by a woman, dressed like a man, about another man) Queen- "One Vision" Freddie Mercury-- "Your Kind Of Lover" "There are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden." Lady Peel "Horses" (Patti Smith) graphic male rape scene "Redondo Beach" ( "" "" ) Ladies' vacation spot marred by tragic disagreement "Cocksucker Blues" (Rolling Stones) The ultimate - only half-camp "When the Whip Comes ( "" "" ) "A gay in York is just a fag Down" in LA" "Queen Bitch" (David Bowie) Tries desperately to be Lou Reed "Winners and Losers" (Iggy Pop) The ending extols the virtues of hustling old trolls. Lou Reed - responsible for much of VU's stuff, including "Sister Ray", as well as classics "Smalltown", "Walk on the Wild Side", and "Halloween Parade". Also, check out the bounty on his "Coney Island Baby" CD (1976) Pete Townshend!!! AAAARGH!! "Rough Boys" An absolute peak. Pete maintained for years that this was just about the young class of '77, the punk rockers taking the throne from older groups, but even the video had more to do with pool tables and rough trade in bars than a musical passing of generations (!). "And I Moved" Same album. Pete didn't want to record it, as he admitted in an interview that it sounded like an admission of "homosexual tendencies". Said he wanted to hear it done by Bette Midler (!) "I'm a Boy" Third child, the protagonist, with only two sisters in the family, deals with a mother that makes him wear girls' clothes. Less to do with actual sexuality than someone defining what it means to adopt "masculine" behaviour, but genius anyway. Erasure: "Hideaway" (from "The Innocents") Chorus - "Don't be afraid; Love will mend your broken wings; time slips away; learn to by gay" New Order: "1963" (from ?) (You may want to check the lyrics to this one on a lyrics server, they are somewhat bizzare ... but most of my friends say I'm right, it's a gay song) The Kinks: Lola Lo Lo Lo lo lo Lola! Alphaville: "Romeos" (from "The Breathtaking Blue") "Jet Set" (from "Forever Young") Actually, "Jet Set" only eludes to tricks ... "If she's a liar, I'm her lover; If she's a priestess, I'm her cover; If she's a lady, I'm a man; If she's a man, I'll do what I can!" NightSwimming by REM (Automatic for the People) "Secret Love" and "We Kiss in the Shadows" "The Hard Way" by Mary Chapin Carpenter... "We've got two lives, one we're given / and the other one we make..." "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tommy James and the Shondelles "Band of Gold", by Frieda Payne (covered by Belinda Carlisle and Rob Clarkson "Beautiful Girls and Beautiful Boys" "Pickup Situation", starts: "Crimson and Clover" - Joan Jett "My Man's Gone Now" - The Gun Club (doing the George and Ira Gershwin jewel.) "Fiddle About" - from the Who's "Tommy". An enterprising Uncle Ernie, left to mind the Pinball player from Hell, takes a liberty or two. "53rd and 3rd" - Supposedly a sordid chapter from the life of Dee Dee "Chinese Rocks" Ramone, this song from the otherwise entertaining first album by the Ramones is the story of a hustler who is handy with a razor blade, but proves, at last, that he is "no sissy". Pretenders "When Will I see You?" Village People-"San Francisco", "Key West", and many others. Oh hell. Village People-"Greatest Hits" :) Styx. "First Time". _Valerie_, by Quarterflash. "My Buddy" WWII Soldiers' song Ma Rainy "Prove It On Me Blues" Bessie Smith "Sissy Man Blues" Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Krisco Kisses", "Relax" Bronski Beat, _Age of Consent_: "Why", "Screaming", "Smalltown Boy" Joe Jackson, "Real Men" Pete Shelley, "Homosapien" (1981) Lou Christie, "The Boys Lazed on the Verandah" (1970) Cyndi Lauper, "When You Were Mine" "Kashka from Baghdad" by Kate Bush. "The Handsome Cabin Boy", which is a traditional seafaring song from Irish sources. Two Nice Girls, "The Queer Song" Pet Shop Boys: Being Boring (if you listen closely) "All the Sad Young Men." Shirly Bassey, Roberta Flack Bronski Beat, "Smalltown Boy" Billy Bragg, "Tender Comrade" "Sexuality" The Smiths/Morrissey, "This Charming Man" "Ask" "Hairdresser on Fire" Depeche Mode, "Strange Love" "Master and Servant" Sugar, "The Slim" Boy George, "The Crying Game" Sting "Secret wedding" is about a gay wedding, and "Englishman in New York" is about Quentin Crisp, who is in the video. Don Dixon - "Andy" The story of a bisexual dancer. Blow Monkeys - Cover of Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me" Elton Motello/The Damned - "Jet Boy/Jet Girl" Tim Curry - "Birds of a Feather"/"Alan" How about the cover of _Smells like Teen Spirit_ by Pansy Division: Smells Like Queer Spirit "Cocksucker Blues", the Rolling Stones. "Jo the Waiter", by Gary Numan in his old Tubeway Army days (from the album "Tubeway Army"): "we are one body' by sophie b. hawkins Not to mention "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" "Glad To Be Gay" by the Tom Robinson Band. "Wouldn't it be Nice?" The Beach Boys. All the Girls Love Alice by Elton John and Bernie Taupin Small town boys - Bronski Beat "About a gay boy being forced to live the family after being found out cattaging..." Why - Bronski Beat "Angry song by activisits..." It ain't necessary so - Bronski Beat "A Cole Porter (?) cover,..the video is about a group of boys in a refor- mary school. Typical Jean Genet's eroticism..." Love is love you baby/ Johnny remember me - Bronski Beat and Marc Almond "Campest British no.1 in the 80s'" * all from the LP "Age of consent". Later Jimmy Summervile formed another duo and have several more hits, the bests of them are: "For a friend" "To a friend died of AIDS" "That's more to love than boy meets girl" "Very self-explainary title, yes?" Check out his greatest hits package...(no folk, it's not a commercial but Jimmy is a friend...:>) Also Marc Almond's, all of them are very camp anyway but there are some are irresistable: What makes a man a man "Specially the live version in the recent live package 'Ten years of tears'" Rudy red "Rudy, rudy, rudy red, and diamond light shines on this boy bed..." Garth Brooks Two of a kind working on a full house. Nat King Cole's "You Don't Know Me". "The Girls Want to be with the Girls" from the Talking Heads album (?) "More Songs about Buildings and Fo THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT (words by Morrissey) THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE QUEER REPUBLIC Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming out of queers Homophobes have trampled on our rights they've done so out of fear We have loosed our rising anger and now its plainly clear That Gays are marching on...... CHORUS 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 at the holocaust by Hitler and his lies AIDS is killing all our people whom the government denies But Gays keep marching on.... CHORUS In the beauty of our loving we have let ourselves be free We will heal our wounds through justice for all humanity, We will not deny our freedom or our sexuality We will keep marching on..... CHORUS reprinted with permission copyright 1990 Leah Zacari From the tape "Wouldn't that be fun" available from : Gender Bender Records P. O. Box 164 Buffalo, NY 14207 -- Terrance Heath heath@phoenix.cd.uga.edu ****************************************************************** YOUR COMFORT IS MY SILENCE!!!!! ACT-UP! FIGHT BACK! TALK BACK! ******************************************************************