Bands, performers, and individual songs with gay (or homophobic) content. Most aired during my adolescence and young adulthood, roughly 1980-1995, a few earlier or later. Plus a few ballets and operas.
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Barry Manilow: Coming out in high schoolThe Bay City Rollers
The Beastie Boys: The homophobic 1980s
The Beatles: Gayest Beatles songs
The Beatles: Most homophobic Beatles songs
The BeeGees: Kissing boys and stayin' alive
Big Bad Brucie
Billy Budd: Gay sailor romance
Bix Beiderbecke: The first gay jazz musician
Boyce and Hart
Brandon Cruz and his best friend
Bruce Springsteen: Gay ally with a sordid past
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Cinderella: Men in tights
Cody Simpson and his gay crew
Craig Hundley: The angelheaded hipster
The Crosby Brothers
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David Cassidy
Deck Us All with Boston Charlie
The DeFrancos: Love beats
Don Giovanni: What's gay about Don Juan?
Donny Osmond
Dude Looks Like a Lady
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H-I
Hank Williams: A dynasty of homophobia
Herman's Hermits: Noone likes girls
I'm Coming Out
I'm Too Sexy
It's Raining Men
J-K
Jim Morrison: Bisexual poet of the dark side
Jimmy Bennett: No ordinary teen idol
Jozin z Bazin
Julio Iglesias and sons: The gay connection
L-M
Let's Hear it for the Boy
Looking for Beefcake on MTV
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Madonna
Me and Julio
Menudo: Latin American boy band
A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
Monster Mash
My Girl Bill
N-O
Nutcracker Beefcake
More Nutcracker Beefcake
Ocho Rios
One Night in Bangkok
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P-Q
Paul Anka: The gay guy next door
Paul Robeson: How do we know that he was gay?
Peer Gynt: Your grandfather's heterosexism
Porgy and Bess: Black beefcake folk opera
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: What the socks covered
Relax
Rex Smith: Not gay, in spite of the outfits
Ricky Nelson
Robert Goulet: 1950s gay icon
Rod Stewart: Gay rumors, heterosexist songs
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Serge Lifar: Gay masculine beauty during the jazz age
Simon and Milo don't find true love
State Songs
Steve Lawrence: All the sad young men
Subtext Songs of the 1980s
T-V
Tommy
Tom Jones: It's not unusual
Twelve Most Horrible Songs
W-Z
When Doves Cry
Woody Guthrie and his clan: Four generations of pro-gay pop singers
Yankee Doodle
You Turn Me Round
