These songs are so important because they're more authentic by definition, and the voices are more marginalized. Here are 19 LGBT musicians whose anthems - some of them real hits some, under the radar favorites - have led a whole group of marginalized voices in song: 1. But it was also a smash hit for a straight artist enjoying the kind of success gay artists don't receive nearly as often.Īllies are great, but it's easy to look at the charts and forget that there are actual LGBT folks singing gay anthems. By all appearances, it was a huge boon for the gay community.
The Los Angeles pride parade was renamed the ResistMarch, and tens of. Then, of course, there's the question of 'Same Love' and the public mass marriage that went down at the Grammys this year. Two 15-year-old marchers, Jessica Dodge and Shekinah Aho, held hands and wore shirts that said, Make America Gay Again. A whole lot of straight artists, whether just looking for a hit or looking to support their LGBT fans, have written empowering songs urging fans to 'Come on let your colors burst.' Straight artists from Katy Perry ( 'Firework') to Kesha (' We R Who We R') have recorded 'empowering' tracks that have taken flack from some critics as disingenuous.
Songs about the LGBT community have charted with growing frequency in the past decade.
