Yesterday, Pam’s House Blend posted an article about Out Magazine’s 100 Gayest Albums. Many of the albums listed definitely belonged on the list. Others, uh, not so much. Many people commented on some obvious omissions.
Last night, I went through my own music collection (which is pretty darn gay) and came up with a list of my own. Keep in mind, this is a list of music that I own. If there’s something missing, that’s probably because I don’t have it and not because it doesn’t belong on the list.
I determined which albums in my collection are the “gayest” by asking myself a series of questions:
1) If I saw this album in a guy’s music collection, would it make me wonder if he is gay?
2) Is the artist gay? Bisexual? Transgender?
3) Does the artist have a large gay following?
4) Does the album have any social significance to the LGBT communities?
Then, I had to narrow it down to just 100 albums. I did this by adding up all of the queer qualities of the particular album. For example, Barbra Streisand + Broadway is twice as gay as Streisand singing typical pop songs. Barbra Streisand + Donna Summer is twice as gay as either singer alone. Now, if we ever had Barbra Streisand + Donna Summer + Broadway — wow! That would be the gayest thing ever.
Also, if an album has a track that is specifically about being gay, it is gayer than an album that doesn’t. Gay artist + gay song is twice as gay as a gay artist who doesn’t sing about being gay. Get it?
Anyway, here’s my list.
Fritz’ 100 Gayest Albums
These are in alphabetical order by album title. I just
couldn’t tackle ordering them by some kind of rank.
#1 A Chorus Line Original Broadway Score
#2 A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock of Seagulls
#3 Queen - A Night At The Opera
#4 Pet Shop Boys - Actually
#5 Club 69 - Adults Only
#6 Alison Moyet - Alf
#7 ABBA - Arrival
#8 Donna Summer - Bad Girls
#9 Morrissey - Bona Drag
#10 The B-52’s - Bouncing Off The Satellites
#11 Oakenfold - Bunkka
#12 Depeche Mode - Catching Up With Depeche Mode
#13 Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
#14 Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
#15 Communards - Communards
#16 The Human League - Dare
#17 Dreamgirls Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
#18 Black Box - Dreamland
#19 Duran Duran - Duran Duran
#20 Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
#21 Electronic - Electronic
#22 M People - Elegant Slumming
#23 Romanovsky & Phillips - Emotional Rollercoaster
#24 George Michael - Faith
#25 Human Sexual Response - Fig. 15
#26 Flashdance Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
#27 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It
#28 Little Richard - The Georgia Peach
#29 Cazwell - Get Into It
#30 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
#31 Grease Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
#32 Village People - Greatest Hits
#33 Ultra Naté - Grime, Silk, Thunder
#34 Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
#35 Kim English - Higher Things
#36 ABC - How to Be a…Zillionaire!
#37 David Bowie - Hunky Dory
#38 Christine Jorgensen - I Enjoy Being a Girl!
#39 Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
#40 Jimmy James - Jamestown
#41 The Cure - Japanese Whispers
#42 Jody Watley - Jody Watley
#43 Roxette - Joyride
#44 Junior Vasquez - Junior Vasquez Vol. 2
#45 Jonny McGovern - Keep It Faggity: The Gay Pimp Remix Project
#46 Voice of the Beehive - Let it Bee
#47 MIKA - Life In Cartoon Motion
#48 Judy Garland - Live at Carnegie Hall
#49 Bette Midler - Live At Last
#50 Sylvester - Living Proof
#51 Wham! - Make It Big
#52 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
#53 R.E.M. - Monster
#54 Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
#55 Kid Creole and The Coconuts - Off The Coast Of Me
#56 Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West
#57 Jay Spears - Playin’ On My Team
#58 Pet Shop Boys - Please
#59 Adam and The Ants - Prince Charming
#60 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?
#61 Loleatta Holloway - Queen of the Night
#62 Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
#63 Jimmy Somerville - Read My Lips
#64 Red, Hot + Blue A Tribute to Cole Porter
#65 Liza Minnelli - Results
#66 Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy Live at Carnegie Hall
#67 Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro
#68 Eurythmics - Savage
#69 Patsy Cline - Sentimentally Yours
#70 k.d. lang - Shadowland
#71 Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual
#72 Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
#73 New Order - Substance
#74 The Weather Girls - Success
#75 RuPaul - Supermodel of the World
#76 Eurythmics - Sweet Dream (Are made of This)
#77 Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
#78 The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
#79 Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent
#80 Divine - The Best of & The Rest of
#81 Barbra Streisand - The Broadway Album
#82 Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
#83 Byron Stingily - The Purist
#84 The Rocky Horror picture Show Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
#85 Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973
#86 The Smiths - The Smiths
#87 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
#88 Cher - The Very Best of
#89 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
#90 Colton Ford - Tug of War
#91 Right Said Fred - Up
#92 Yaz - Upstairs at Eric’s
#93 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
#94 The B-52’s - Wild Planet
#95 Erasure - Wonderland
#96 Deee-Lite - World Clique
#97 Bananarama - Wow!
#98 Melissa Etheridge - Yes I Am
#99 Madonna - You Can Dance
#100 Dead or Alive - Youthquake
okay, you included Romanovsky & Phillips, so I approve
Glen