# What is the gayest song of the 90's?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 9, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119 "2004-04-09T03:47:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/21 "2004-04-09T13:13:04Z")
> [@don't ask](#):
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> Electric Six’s _Gay Bar_ would be a possibility :
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> You!
> I wanna take you to a gay bar,
> I wanna take you to a gay bar,
> I wanna take you to a gay bar,
> gay bar, gay bar.
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> Let’s start a war, start a nuclear war,
> At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
> Waah,
> At the gay bar.
[http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar/](http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar/) The whole song is here along with hilarious animations.
_I’ve got something to put in you
at the gay bar, gar bar_
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/22 "2004-04-09T13:16:13Z")
> [@yojimbo](#):
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> [Gay Bar by Electric Six - sung by flying Viking Kittens - animation by Joel Veitch rathergood.com](http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar/) The whole song is here along with hilarious animations.
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> _I’ve got something to put in you
> at the gay bar, gar bar_
Well done, thanks I didn’t know that existed. I left out the last bit you quoted because I thought it may be a bit confronting for the OP.
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### Author:  [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/23 "2004-04-09T14:06:27Z")
Armand van Helden, U don’t know me (1999) was a dance track with the catchy lyric
“You don’t even know me
you say that I’m not living right
You don’t even know me
So why do you judge my life”
It’s not specifically gay, but it seemed to hit a chord, and is played at a lot of gay clubs I’ve been to.
At the moment Scissor Sisters seem to have cornered the market with “Take your Mama out”, a song about coming out to your mother, taking her out to a gay bar and getting her “jacked up on some cheap champagne”.
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### Author:  [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/24 "2004-04-09T14:16:55Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]
Disco in general seems to be associated in a lot of people’s minds with homosexuality. It’s possible that’s just because disco happened to be thriving during the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, when gays were becoming more and more visable, but that’s just a guess of mine.
[QUOTE]
Actually the reason is a lot more basic than that. Disco was first popular in gay dance clubs before spreading into the mainstream, thus its association with the gay community by the wider world.
Gayest song? _Smalltown Boy_ by Bronski Beat. I think at some point or another every gay person (GLB, maybe even T) has felt like that boy. But then again I haven’t had my daily influx of caffeine yet.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/25 "2004-04-09T14:36:44Z")
“Out of Control” by Chemical Brothers (with vocals by New Order’s singer.) Not only do we have the whiny New Wave singing, we also have the singer asking if his “mustache is too much”. Then again, they are “brothers of the soul”.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/26 "2004-04-09T14:37:47Z")
definitely Boy George’s The Crying Game.
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### Author:  [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/27 "2004-04-09T14:58:38Z")
I don’t know what song it would be, but whatever it is, I’m sure it’s something by Erasure.
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/28 "2004-04-09T15:21:17Z")
Yikes! No mention of Cher’s “Believe”?
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/29 "2004-04-09T16:01:28Z")
Not 90’s but Franky goes to Hollywood’s Relax.
Isn’t “In the Navy” gayer than “YMCA” by Village People?
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/30 "2004-04-09T16:07:59Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#):
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> Isn’t “In the Navy” gayer than “YMCA” by Village People?
I think YMCA is more obstensibly gay than In the Navy, but since I first heard In the Navy being sung by viking pigs on The Muppet Show, maybe I’m not objective.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/31 "2004-04-09T16:32:21Z")
I’m a big fan of the Stranglers’ “This Town.” Unfortunately I can’t find a link to the lyrics, but the best line is the refrain:
_And I don’t give a damn whatever anyone might say
And it’s not going to be a love that dare not speak its name._
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### Author:  [@aoty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aoty)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/32 "2004-04-09T16:33:15Z")
Lyrics by Roddy, but sung by Mike Patton, who is definitely NOT gay. He did have a good sense of humor for singing those lyrics as written. Great song.
> [@nitroglycerine](#):
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> How 'bout Roddy Bottum’s ode to giving head, “Be Aggressive” on Faith No More’s Angel Dust album. It’s such a great song, you don’t even have to be gay to enjoy it!
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/33 "2004-04-09T16:35:30Z")
I have (a horrific 😉 ) memory of Marc Almond dueting a love song with a rather fat male singer (who had a rather Operatic voice). But can’t find the name of the song from web browsing. I remember it got a fair bit of airplay, and was excruciatingly camp.
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### Author:  [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/34 "2004-04-09T16:43:04Z")
Howzabout this little gem from Blur:
_Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls, who do
Boys like they’re girls, who do girls, like they’re boys
Always should be someone you really love_
Now if that wasn’t THE gayest song from the 90s, I don’t know what was.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/35 "2004-04-09T19:27:00Z")
> [@Loopydude](#):
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> Howzabout this little gem from Blur:
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> _Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls, who do
> Boys like they’re girls, who do girls, like they’re boys
> Always should be someone you really love_
>
> Now if that wasn’t THE gayest song from the 90s, I don’t know what was.
Dude, I can’t even parse it.
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/36 "2004-04-09T19:32:21Z")
> [@AudreyK](#):
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> Gonna have to go with “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred.
This is what I was going to say.
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/37 "2004-04-09T19:51:42Z")
I always considered “Macho Man” to be the Village People’s gayest song.
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### Author:  [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/38 "2004-04-09T19:55:33Z")
Gerardo’s **"Rico Suave**.
Game, set, and match. No gayer. It’s like, how much more gay could this be? and the answer is none. None more gay.
Okay, bye.
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/39 "2004-04-09T20:15:18Z")
> [@Chastain86](#):
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> Gerardo’s **"Rico Suave**.
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> Game, set, and match. No gayer. It’s like, how much more gay could this be? and the answer is none. None more gay.
Oh yeah? Well I have one thing to say: Sachee, chantee, chantee chantee chantee!
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-gayest-song-of-the-90s/239119/40 "2004-04-09T20:27:48Z")
Found it…
“Somethings GottenHold of My Heart” Marc Almond and Gene Pitney, released January 1989
The song that makes Danny Laroo seem macho.
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