I think i got love- Zanna Dont Love Who you Love- a man of no importance Best Kept Secret- bare hitchhiking across america- william finn's infinate joy
Menken Fan, I'm so glad you chose "Love Who You Love" from A Man Of No Importance. I was going to mention it. Not written directly as a gay song, but the message of tolerance and love and following your heart is beautiful!! A wonderful song for gays and straights alike!
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I know what you mean, Chris. There are many songs with a gay sensibility, though not overtly gay, like "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" or "The Day After That" from Kiss of the Spiderwoman.
WHAT WOULD I DO? Falsettoland UNLIKELY LOVERS Falsettoland WHAT MORE CAN I SAY? Falsettoland SHE'S A WOMAN Kiss Of The Spider Woman ANYONE WHO LOVES Dance A Little Closer SAILING A New Brain SONG OF THE SAND La Cage Aux Folles I AM WHAT I AM La Cage Aux Folles LOVE DON'T NEED A REASON - The Boy From Oz
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My favorites are: Sailing (A New Brain) I'll Cover You (Rent) Wicked Little Town (Hedwig...) She's a Woman; Dressing Them Up and Anything for Him (Kiss of The Spider Woman) and I remember also a nice ballad from the revue "Naked Boys Singin"..."Window To Window" (I Hope to remember the right title...)
Aren't all showtunes, by definition, gay? Well, let's give a little historical credit to Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter for gay subtext that may well have been text:
The first would have to be "We Kiss in a Shadow," which definitively expressed the longing of the pre-Stonewall gay experience.
Next would be "I Enjoy Being a Girl," which definitively expressed the outrageousness of the pre-Stonewall drag experience.
Then "You're the Top," which cleverly expressed in coded language the 1930s idea of sexual role-playing.
But the winner would have to be Cole Porter's "Farming," from 1941's "Let Face It," in which Danny Kaye sang to Vivian Vance:
"Don't inquire of Georgie Raft Why his cow has never calfed. Georgie's bull is beautiful But he's gay!"