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LGBTQ* Power Anthems and Support Songs (NSFW Edition)

Lily Allen’s “F*** You”

Same Love
Macklemore

“Same Love” - Macklemore feat. Mary Lambert

“Same Love”
(with Ryan Lewis)
(feat. Mary Lambert)

Queer Anthems 101: Broadway Addition

Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Demo Recording) — “Old-Fashion Lesbian Love Story”

MADELAINE
At the bar there’s a girl in the shadow
Sitting still like a nun unknown.
Though an attic full of strangers
May hold many hidden dangers
There’s a quality I like - 
She’s alone. 

So I pause 
And I wink 
And I shudder
Just to bring her attention in line
While her pastures may be greener
I can tell by her demeanor
She’s mine!

(The girl falls off her chair, dead drunk.)

That’s fine:
I need a good-natured, old-fashioned 
Lesbian love story
The kind of tale my mama used to tell.
Where the girls were so sweet
And the music would swell
And in the end the queen would send the men off to hell.

What is that mild-mannered, old-fashioned 
Lesbian love story
Where people knew exactly who they were?
I want the story of yore
That they don’t sing anymore
To an old-fashioned dyke like her.

See that girl on the bed, how she wants me.
She’s a bee I could free from the hive.
I would never dare deceive her
She’s a very clever beaver
With a quality I like - 
She’s alive.

So I pause 
And I twitch
In the silence
While I pray that she’ll play out this hand.
But I feel my intuition
Saying “Notice her position” - 
Start the band!

(The girl is embraced by a man.)

She’s clearly manned.

I planned a well-rendered, one-gendered
Lesbian love story
With good old-fashioned sex in every line
Where girls with tattoos would whimper and whine
“While on all fours, you show me yours
And I’ll show you mine.”

I miss that soft-hearted, old-fashioned
Lesbian love story
Where women wrestle bears and passersby.
The kind of story so good 
That they won’t tell in my ‘hood
To an old-fashioned dyke like - 

I’m gorgeous
I’m single
I’m bustin’ with laughs
So why
Can’t I 
Be just in two short paragraphs of a
You betcha, damn funny
Lesbian love story
The kind of yarn that turns a girl to mush.
Choose from hundreds of blondes 
But when shove comes push 
I understand a bird in hand’s worth two in the bush.
Sweet Jesus!

Let’s hear that old-fashioned 
Lesbian love story
Where girls are girls 
And boys stay out to sea.
I’ll write a new one and then
I’ll make them tell it again
To an old-fashioned dyke
Like me!

“Girl from the Gutter” — Kina

Queer Anthems 101

For all the things you said I’d never do
For all the things you said that were untrue
For all the times you made me feel alone
Said I’d never make it on my own

(chorus 1)
Things are lookin’ up for me now
Seems like Karma’s makin’ its rounds
Its my turn now, won’t be held down no
Karma’s gonna visit you too
You gotta pay for the things you put me through
I hope you do, I hope you do, yeah, yeah

(chorus 2)
I hope your hell is filled with magazines
And on every page you see a big picture of me
And under every picture the caption should read
Not bad for a girl from the gutter like me

(Personal Note: When I was coming out, this song was the lesbian/queer* women anthem in the clubs in Louisiana. I think we all have those songs we hold on to long after the glitter has washed away. -Rebecca)

In or Out
Ani Difranco

LGBTQ* Bisexual/Pansexual Anthems You Should Know

In or Out
Ani DiFranco

Queer Anthems 101

“In or Out” — Ani DiFranco 

(bisexual/pansexual pride)

guess there’s something wrong with me
guess I don’t fit in
no one wants to touch it
no one knows where to begin
I’ve got more than one membership
to more than one club
and I owe my life
to the people that I love

somedays the line I walk
turns out to be straight
other days the line tends to
deviate
I’ve got no criteria for sex or race
I just want to hear your voice
I just want to see your face

their eyes are all asking
are you in, or are you out
and I think, oh man,
what is this about?
tonight you can’t put me
up on any shelf

LGBTQ* Queer Anthems You Should Know

La Vie Boheme — Rent (OBC)

MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & 3 OTHERS 
Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens, 
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, 
Pee Wee Herman 
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein 
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa 
Carmina Burana 

ALL 
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy 
Vaclav Havel, The Sex Pistols, 8BC 
To no shame, never playing the fame game 

COLLINS 
To marijuana 

ALL 
To sodomy 
It’s between God and me 
To S & M 

Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Judy Garland

LGBTQ* Anthems 101

The anthem that started them all…

Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow”