We Will Survive: The Ultimate Queer Anthems Workout Playlist

Satisfaction Month feels simply as revolutionary and necessary as ever. It’s presently occurring towards a backdrop of an unprecedented wave of anti-trans laws. The American Civil Liberties Union is presently monitoring 491 anti-LGBTQ+ payments, which goal trans individuals or purpose to ban or censor drag performances. Most of the payments search to stop trans youth from receiving gender-affirming medical care, cease faculties from providing trans-inclusive schooling, and block trans individuals from utilizing the toilet that feels most acceptable to them.

It’s affordable to really feel very unhappy and scared by this information, nevertheless it’s additionally a potent reminder of why Satisfaction exists within the first place. We’re nonetheless combating: for dignity, bodily autonomy, and the liberty to exist as our true selves in public.

Music has all the time been part of the continued combat for liberation; our canonical homosexual anthems—with their themes of survival, acceptance, and self-love—have been a significant supply of queer pleasure and connection for many years, and nonetheless are as we speak.

As a queer Dominican boy rising up in Queens within the ’90s, a few of these songs have been lifelines for me, placing into phrases what I couldn’t say aloud on the time. They gave me a voice once I felt unvoiced, beneath the sheen of a diva persona and a booming beat that drowned out my darkest ideas. Lip-synching to Whitney Houston’s “I’m Each Lady”—particularly the hovering bridge—offers me the identical catharsis to this present day. In any case, “I’ve bought it!!”

Beneath you’ll discover a playlist of a few of our all-time favourite homosexual anthems; it’s a mixture of classics and up to date bops, all of which is able to carry you up, brighten your spirits, and assist you really feel like your finest, queerest self. Put them on to your subsequent news-induced rage exercise, sizzling lady stroll, or simply if you want slightly one thing to energy your day. Being queer is a present, and like Woman Gaga declares on “Free Lady,” “That is my dance ground I fought for.”