Gay Pride Day. It’s like Mardi Grass, Fourth of July, and Halloween all in one. Decked-up drag queens in floats, shirtless chicks with pasties, ass-flossing dudes in thongs, streets excessively crowded with people wearing every color visible to the eye, opportunities to get laid available, and –BREATH– fireworks! Every major city in the U.S. celebrates it, and in New York City, Gay Pride is this Sunday so all neighborhoods have been prepping up all month for the day.
Yeah, sure the weekend is gonna be wild and all, but with all its commotion for Gay month, it got me thinking about what a childhood friend who I had not spoken to in a while recently told me. “How does it feel to be out of the closet?” Whaaa? As stunned as I was to hear that, I just told her, it’s like they say, “blondes have more fun than brunettes, well think of it like that but with sexual preference” (NOT!!!).
I was never a big fan of ‘categories’ when it came to me especially. And even though I’ve had my share of casually dating both sexes (not bi, pansexual), I just want to shed light on the discrimination and lack of awareness of pansexuality, I mean does it even fall anywhere under the LGBTQ acronyms? Haha, no, kidding… Here at RE, we love everyone! And because we especially love YOU readers, Juan Data and I will give ya our ten music picks that feature LGBT stuff and Gay Pride for this very gay month!
This is also dedicated to my novia, who doesn’t even know she’s my girlfriend yet. Hehe
10. “Decile Que Lo Quiero“
by Los Sultanes
[Argentina]
This is a controversial one and when it came out in the mid ’90s it caused quite a turmoil. “I’m going out with a dude” is the opening line (and the title it’s popularly known for) of this confusing, contradicting story about a guy in a gay relationship where one of the partners betrayed the other one by forcing him to undergo (sex change?) surgery… or something like that. It doesn’t make any sense, and it shouldn’t, it’s just a silly cumbia by a bunch of guys who are not really gay but thanks to this stereotype-ridden hit they adopted that public persona and became known as cumbia’s response to the Village People. Many got offended, obviously, but in the end, the song still remains to this date, the ultimate anthem of tropi-gay pride. -JD
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09. “Mala Suerte”
by Panda [Mexico]
These guys from Monterrey make up pretty cheesy rock tracks, and I’ve ran into a few of Panda‘s themes that are actually quite funny in a good way. I’m not really sure why they’ve had kind of a bad rep as musicians, but I won’t get into it.
Instead, I want to point out this song, because I’m sure that this theme has been the case to many of you out there. Ladies, have you ever fallen in love with a gay man, or straight guys with a lesbian? Well then this is your song. Pura mala suerte -IR
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07. “El Baile Y El Salón”
by Café Tacvba
[Mexico]
Not many people know that Café Tacvba‘s “El Baile Y El Salón” is about homosexual love at first sight. The band is not really associated with gay culture and what not, but more like how versatile they are with mixing genres and reincarnating in image and style in like every album they released. So sure, why not tap into a little gay love here.
I’ve always known that Rubén Albarrán is a care free-free-spirited-open-minded dude. My platonic love. And in this track, he sings about a tender moment in the dancefloor experience singing the lyrics “Y asi bailando quiero que me hagas el amor, de hombre a hombre, voleuz-vous coucher avec moi?” Dang, I don’t know why I think this is super sexy. -IR
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03. “Utah in Pictures”
by Cut Your Hair
[Spain]
I don’t really know if Spain’s electro rock trio Cut Your Hair are gay or not, but they’re def friendly. But hey, things are different in Europe. It’s more liberating, like the ladies can go bikini-less/bra-less at beaches and be totally fine without having pervy 40 y/0’s staring at our boobs.
It’s not the lyrical content that make the list. It’s the video for “Utah In Pictures” is what makes it appropriate. Es un té para tres, or a love triangle if you will is between two boys and one gal. There’s obvious tensions between these bisexual (or pansexual?) friends that makes us think of classics as Y Tu Mama También and of course The Dreamers. -IR
