As with many a night when I made it to the end of the evening on a dance floor, the DJ would send us all off with this Donna Summer classic.
Donna Summer – Last Dance – 1978
Gay Anthems
A Little After Pride Music
Back in this day Fearsome was living in Seattle and was hidden behind a temporarily clean shaven face. This tune was and will always be described simply as fabulous.
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart – Club MTV – 1990
A Little After Pride Music
Taking a twirl across the Dance Floor at The Copa Key West to this tune was an out of body experience. Wow, what a charmed life I’ve lived.
Communards – Never Can Say Goodbye – 1987
Big Effin Pride Tune
Because we Proud!
Cazwell / Peppermint – Blend – 2018
We post this one again ‘cause it’s that Fabulous. Happy Pride Y’all!
A Little Pride Music
Why Pride?
This song pretty much sums up why.
Bronski Beat – Jimmy Sommerville – Smalltown Boy – 1984
We are here, let’s dance!
A Little Pride Music
I was literally brought out of the closet and into a fully gay life with this 12 inch single permanently on the turntable in the first house I shared with my first lover, and a night on a gay club’s dance floor in the early 1980s wasn’t complete with a twirl to this fabulous number.
Festival – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina – 1979
A Little Pride Music
This was always my favorite Erasure tune.
Erasure – Chains of Love – 1988
A Little Pride Music
I was so born this way it ain’t funny. The earliest of my memories was that of desire of affection from men.
Lady Gaga – Born This Way – 2011
A Little Pride Music
What Pride without a circuit party?
Sam Smith – I Feel Love (VJ Zenman Circuit Festival Mix) – 2019
A Little Pride Music
Fearsome can never listen to or watch this one enough. He loves it!
Taylor Swift – You Need To Calm Down – 2019
A Little Pride Music
Sylvester was a trailblazer. Little did he know what would come shortly after we lost him.
Sylvester – Someone Like You – 1986
A Little Pride Music
No memory tied to this tune ‘cause Todrick just dropped it yesterday.
It’s Fabulous!
Todrick – Rainin’ Fellas – 2021
Time to make some new memories.
A Little Pride Music
Way back when he was but a wee beard, Fearsome remembers this tune from one of the very first drag shows he ever attended, if not the first. Carolyn Sue Wilson could tear this one up. Even Ms. Ross herself would have been envious.
Diana Ross – The Boss (Dimitri from Paris Remix) – 1979
A Little Pride Music
It’s Sunday morning and time for a little soccer practice.
Jonny McGovern – Soccer Practice – 2003
A Little Pride Music
It’s Pride month and this little diddy is from way back in the early days when Fearsome was but a wee beard.
Josie Cotton – Johnny Are You Queer – 1981
Fancy
Orville?
…oh yes he went there and he covered it good!
Orville Peck – Fancy – 8/13/2020
They want you!
They want you as a new recruit!
In The Navy – Village People – 1979
1969-2019
It has now been just over 50 years since the raid of The Stonewall Inn.
We’ve come a long way.
Now isn’t the time to turn back.
Live, love, hope and vote like your life depends on it. Because? Because your life and freedoms actually do depend on your participation, on your vote.
Happy San Diego Pride Y’all!
Gay Anthems!
This Gloria Gaynor version of I Am What I Am, although released in 1984 after I came out as a homosexual, was the first tune that I fully understood to be a Gay Anthem. Today it remains a classic.
Gay Anthems!
Hands down Fearsome Favorite Ever Gay Anthem is ….drum roll…
Boys Town Gang – Remember Me / Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – 1981 – featuring Cynthia Manley
If one ever wanted to catch a glimpse of what tune could really get a young me on the dance floor then one would push play. Oh …and before pushing play, check to make sure there is enough room to dance a bit right where you are wherever you may be.
Above is the best copy I can find of the original 12” dance track that stayed permanently on my turntable back in the day. Enjoy!
Happy Pride Y’all!
XO
