# Queer Love Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279 "2001-02-21T00:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/1 "2001-02-21T00:34:21Z")
I’m not speaking of just any songs here. I’m talking about that very well defined delicate genre. Songs about boinking members of the same sex. There’s some good one’s out there. Many of them are from bands that could loosely be defined as heterosexual. So what are your favorite queer songs. Two I can think of off the top of my head. **Hey Sailor! - Murder City Devils** a great song, about an attractive sailor drinking cheap wine. Something about Moody’s voice always does it for me. Great stuff **Cowboy Love - Reverend Horton Heat** somewhat silly, but entertaining nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/2 "2001-02-21T00:39:24Z")
I think Sophie B. Hawkins’s song, “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover” had lesbian overtones. ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/3 "2001-02-21T06:16:21Z")
See if you can track down songs from Blueboy’s “Unisex” CD on Napster. Or try “So Said Kay” or “This Love Is Not Wrong” by the Field Mice. -fh ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/4 "2001-02-21T06:19:30Z")
Hmm…this is a toughy, but the only one that comes to mind is **Coil-Slur**. Sure it may not be too obvious, but there are definetly some very powerfull homo-erotic undertones. Or maybe that my keen homophobia actin up…who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/5 "2001-02-21T10:15:27Z")
Well, **Coil** are gay mages, so homoerotic undertones would be expected. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/6 "2001-02-21T11:23:50Z")
“Eat Me Alive” by Judas Priest ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/7 "2001-02-21T16:19:01Z")
“Walk on the Wild Side” by Lou Reed. An excerpt: > [@](#): > > Holly came from Miami, Fla > Hitchhiked her way across the USA. > Plucked her eyebrows on the way > Shaved her leg and then he was she - she said: > > Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side, > Said hey honey, take a walk on the wild side. [the rest of the lyrics here](http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?view=song&pid=O79zHWA2) ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/8 "2001-02-21T16:30:48Z")
One of my favorite subjects… **REM** - Be Mine **Rufus Wainwright** - Danny Boy **Jane Siberry** - Maria **Huffamoose** - Buy You A Ring My favorite, but needs explanation. An all-guy band, with songs like “James”, dedicated to a free spirit kinda guy the singer is obviously in love with. The version of “Buy You a Ring” on their second album, after the publicity guys started explaining “James” as having been written from a woman’s point of view, excluded the verse: Use a condom and light another cigarette Protect yourself while you’re killing me and smoking us all to death Which I think pretty much proves it. But anyway, it’s a beautiful song. ---
**Author:** ![cheepdogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@cheepdogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheepdogg)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/9 "2001-02-21T16:55:50Z")
Lets not forget the songs of Morrissey and the Smiths ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/10 "2001-02-21T17:11:19Z")
Shoot, pretty much _anything_ by **Depeche Mode**. I can’t remember the title of one particularly explicit one, but the lyrics go as follows: I’m taking a ride with my best friend… He promises me I’ll be as safe as houses, As long as I remember who’s wearing the trousers… Plenty of other queer/submission stuff going on in there. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/11 "2001-02-21T17:17:55Z")
“Caroline” by Concrete Blonde. I have met peopel willign to swear up and down that it is about a platonic friendship but I think that Occam’s razor pretty much decides in favor of a lesbian love song. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/12 "2001-02-21T18:32:27Z")
I kissed a Girl, Jill Sobule. What a kickass video, too, with Fabio and the little pink cartoony houses and stuff. It’s so cute! ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/13 "2001-02-21T18:37:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manda JO \* > \*\*“Caroline” by Concrete Blonde. I have met peopel willign to swear up and down that it is about a platonic friendship but I think that Occam’s razor pretty much decides in favor of a lesbian love song. \*\* Hey, one of my all-time favourite songs! But… nope. According to an interview with Johnette Napolitano I once read (how’s that for a cite?), the song is about a friend of hers who was an ageing stripper in a fairly seedy club. Johnette just felt sad for her and wondered where her life was going. If you’ve ever seen the (beautiful) video for the song, you’ve seen the whole story - it’s based it fairly closely on Johnette’s experience. Favourte queer love song? How can you go past **Lola** by The Kinks? ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/14 "2001-02-21T21:56:15Z")
How about “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell? It seems to ba about a man struggling with his homosexuality, attracted to another man, but not ready to admit it. “I’m sorry, I don’t pray that way” ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/15 "2001-02-21T22:52:33Z")
NOOO!!! The Smiths and Depeche Mode can’t have gay undertones in their songs…they just can’t…_world fallin apart_ :(. But seriously…is Morrisey gay? I kinda had an inclining, but just thought he was overly sensitive and a bit dramatic. Oh…and **Never Let Me Down** could be concived as having homo-erotic subject matter…i mean…common “…as long as you remember who’s wearin the trousers…”. But i’m not sure about their other songs…most of their songs have a general erotic/masochistic/sadisitc feel to em…i would never venture to say that they were homo-erotic. They’re straight…but they’re sissies… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/16 "2001-02-21T23:02:25Z")
Doesn’t just about every Melissa Etheridge song qualify? I mean, she goes out of her way to write songs without third-person pronouns; it’s never “I love him” or “I love her” but “I love you”. Kinda her way of writing a lesbian love song without offending the masses. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/17 "2001-02-22T04:48:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maeglin \* > \*\*Shoot, pretty much _anything_ by **Depeche Mode**. I can’t remember the title of one particularly explicit one, but the lyrics go as follows: > > I’m taking a ride with my best friend… > > He promises me I’ll be as safe as houses, > As long as I remember who’s wearing the trousers… > > Plenty of other queer/submission stuff going on in there. \*\* That’s “Never Let Me Down Again” from the Music For The Masses CD. ---
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/18 "2001-02-22T05:05:39Z")
And who can go past “Two Nice Girls” for songs that don’t beat around the bush? The Queer Song: “I’m-a tell you how it’s gonna be Soon you’re gonna be fucking me I’ll-a tell you what your mumma will say I’m ashamed my daughter is gay”… and… I Spent My Last Ten Dollars (On Birth Control and Beer): “I spent my last ten dollars On birth control and beer My life was so much simpler When I was sober and queer” Not exactly a love song… but kinda cool nonetheless. 🙂 Maxxxie ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/19 "2001-02-22T05:09:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \* > \*\*NOOO!!! The Smiths and Depeche Mode can’t have gay undertones in their songs…they just can’t…_world fallin apart_ :(. But seriously…is Morrisey gay? I kinda had an inclining, but just thought he was overly sensitive and a bit dramatic. Oh…and **Never Let Me Down** could be concived as having homo-erotic subject matter…i mean…common “…as long as you remember who’s wearin the trousers…”. But i’m not sure about their other songs…most of their songs have a general erotic/masochistic/sadisitc feel to em…i would never venture to say that they were homo-erotic. They’re straight…but they’re sissies… \*\* I saw an interview with him where he claimed to asexual, neither gay nor straight. ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrho12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Pyrrho12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrho12)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279/20 "2001-02-22T15:59:41Z")
**Big Gay Heart** by **the Lemonheads** **Russian Hill** by **Jellyfish** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-love-songs/55279.md?page=2)