# Songs about homophobia? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2005, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179 "2005-03-25T09:06:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/21 "2005-03-25T15:38:55Z")
“Les Boys” by Dire Straits [http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dire-straits/40731.html](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dire-straits/40731.html) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/22 "2005-03-25T15:48:47Z")
_Fuck Anita Bryant_, by David Allen Coe. > [@](#): > > Fuck Anita Bryant > Who the hell is she? > Telling all them faggots > That they can’t be free > Throw that bitch in prison > maybe then she’ll see > just how much them goddamned > homosexuals mean to me. It’s a bit meta. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/23 "2005-03-25T16:06:29Z")
I’m hopelessly heterosexual I guess I’m kinda slow. Mom & Dad were all I had It’s the only way I know. A song from Dr. Demento back in the ancient days. The song is an embarassed reaction to the singer’s being prop’d by an old friend who heretofore had not revealed his deviance. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/24 "2005-03-25T16:21:40Z")
Come and listen to my story ‘bout a man named Fred A bold minister with lots of hate inside his head. Then one day he was lookin’ for a cause, and said to himself “I’ll hate homosexuals!” (Oueers that is, sodomites) Well the next thing you know 'ol Fred’s a picketeer Cursing anything that acts remotely queer and if by chance he should come back to this locality We’ll have to show him some of our great hospitality! (Tar, that is, feathers) Well now it’s time to say goodbye to Fred and all his kin, We’re sorry but we can’t say that we’re glad that they stopped in. We think that somewhere else is where they really oughta be Any other place and any other locality! (Siberia, Timbuktu, don’t come back now, ya hear?) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/25 "2005-03-25T16:26:15Z")
Me’Shell Ndegeocello _Leviticus: Faggot_ Story of a young runaway, beaten by his father for being gay. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/26 "2005-03-25T16:27:04Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > No it wasn’t, at least not on any radio station where I heard the song. Well of course not, you’re up in Madison, WI! Or as the college circuit preachers call it Mad-i-SIN. 😉 Actually, when the record was first released, I heard the album cut on air for a while. Now, it’s the radio track you hear. (Eden Alley is in the Bible belt, btw.) PS: That was a hoot, **Baker**! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/27 "2005-03-25T16:38:59Z")
What about “A Boy Named Sue”? 😉 And, did you write that, **Baker**? Nice job! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/28 "2005-03-25T16:41:00Z")
**Red Hot Chili Peppers** - _Pea_: > [@](#): > > You homophobic redneck dick > Big and tough and macho > You can kick my ass > So fucking what? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/29 "2005-03-25T16:51:05Z")
Bronski Beat: “Why???” Dépêche Mode: “People are People” Pet Shop Boys: “It’s a Sin” Hedwig and the Angry Inch: “Wicked Little Town” Most of what Romanovsky and Phillips ever wrote, such as “Homophobes in Robes,” “When Heterosexism Strikes,” “Straightening Up the House,” and “Sodomy Song” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/30 "2005-03-25T18:10:03Z")
Y.M.C.A. - the young man has been thrown out of his parents’ house for being gay. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/31 "2005-03-25T18:14:07Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > What about “A Boy Named Sue”? 😉 > > And, did you write that, **Baker**? Nice job! I wish I could claim the honor, but a local group(now disbanded) wrote and sang it at a couple of "rallies for tolerance) hear in Topeka. It was an all female band named Home Maid Jam. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/32 "2005-03-25T18:21:59Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#): > > Well of course not, you’re up in Madison, WI! Or as the college circuit preachers call it Mad-i-SIN. I lived in Michigan when the song was released. I don’t recall ever hearing it without that verse. The video includes it. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/33 "2005-03-25T20:40:27Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > What about “A Boy Named Sue”? 😉 That suggestion really isn’t too far off. The writer of “A Boy Named Sue”, Shel Silverstein, wrote an alternate version of the song sung from the POV of the father. In it, the titular boy named Sue ends up being an angry drag queen. As for other suggestions, how about “One” by U2? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/34 "2005-03-25T20:53:40Z")
I think it’s more satire than anything, but one of my favorite 'Mats songs: \*Here come Dick, he’s wearing a skirt Here comes Jane, y’know she’s sporting a chain Same hair, revolution Same build, evolution Tomorrow who’s gonna fuss And they love each other so Androgynous Closer than you know, love each other so Androgynous Don’t get him wrong and don’t get him mad He might be a father, but he sure ain’t a dad And she don’t need advice that’ll center her She’s happy with the way she looks She’s happy with her gender Mirror image, see no damage See no evil at all Kewpie dolls and urine stalls Will be laughed at The way you’re laughed at now Now, something meets Boy, and something meets Girl They both look the same They’re overjoyed in this world Same hair, revolution Unisex, evolution Tomorrow who’s gonna fuss And tomorrow Dick is wearing pants And tomorrow Janie’s wearing a dress Future outcasts and they don’t last And today, the people dress the way that they please The way they tried to do in the last centuries\* ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/35 "2005-03-25T21:08:31Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “Masculine Women, Feminine Men” (1926) John Wesley Harding has been covering that song lately. [Here’s a link to a free (legal) download of it.](http://www.johnwesleyharding.com/liveaudio.html) Patty Griffin’s song [Tony](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/patty-griffin/105319.html) is a powerful song about homophobia: > [@](#): > > They wrote it in the local rag > Death comes to the local fag > I guess you finally stopped believing > That any hope would ever find you > Well I know that story, > I was sitting right behind you > > Hey Tony, what’s so good about dying > He said I think I might do a little dying today > He looked in the mirror and saw > A little faggot starin back at him > Pulled out a gun and blew himself away ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/36 "2005-03-25T21:16:51Z")
I just remembered a couple more: Melissa Etheridge’s [Scarecrow:](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/melissaetheridge/scarecrow.html) > [@](#): > > This was our brother > This was our son > This shepherd young and mild > This unassuming one > We all gasp this can’t happen here > We’re all much too civilized > Where can these monsters hide > > But they are knocking on our front door > They’re rocking in our cradles > They’re preaching in our churches > And eating at our tables and her song [Tuesday Morning](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/melissaetheridge/tuesdaymorning.html) > [@](#): > > Even though he could not marry > Or teach your children in our schools > Because who he wants to love > Is breaking your God’s rules Indigo Girls’ [It’s Alright](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/indigo-girls-its-alright-lyrics.html) > [@](#): > > And it’s alright if you hate that way, > Hate me cause I’m different, > Hate me cause I’m gay > Truth of the matter come around one day ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/37 "2005-03-25T21:19:50Z")
Dagnabbit, two more. 😃 John Wesley Harding’s [Elvis Has Left the Building](http://www.johnwesleyharding.com/music.html) > [@](#): > > It was just one small step for humanity > But it took him half an hour to cross the floor > And the little girls scream and turn into their mothers > Who got much more respect before the war > Used to be the world would take our cues from one another > Now just one man can tear the world in half > Some idiot’s cracking jokes that he will never understand > About how he hates gays and everybody laughs > Please clear off the floor > That joke just isn’t funny anymore > Cos Elvis, Elvis has left the building > Elvis, Elvis has left the building And [When the Sun Comes Out](http://www.johnwesleyharding.com/music.html) > [@](#): > > When the sun comes out > His pa will be so disappointed > To find out his son was double-jointed > Some will flounder > Some will be anointed > The son couldn’t wait to do a turn-about ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/38 "2005-03-25T21:21:33Z")
Oh, and Pet Shop Boys’ “Can You Forgive Her?” > [@](#): > > She’s made you some kind of laughing stock > Because you dance to disco and you don’t like rock > She made fun of you, and even in bed > Said she was going to go and get herself a real man instead ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/39 "2005-03-26T03:32:31Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > I think it’s more satire than anything, but one of my favorite 'Mats songs: > > \*Here come Dick, he’s wearing a skirt > Here comes Jane, y’know she’s sporting a chain > Same hair, revolution > Same build, evolution > Tomorrow who’s gonna fuss 'Mats? That song is in my favorites, but I only know it from the Crash Test Dummies, and had no idea it was cover. Who wrote the original, and when? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179/40 "2005-03-26T03:49:09Z")
Sorry: The Replacements (Paul Westerberg’s composition) It’s from the album _Let It Be_. (_Gary’s Got A Boner_ is another excellent tune from this disc. Whether or not there’s some kind of theme going on here, I don’t know). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-homophobia/296179.md?page=3)