I’m picking thirty of my favorite songs, one a day, for Gay Pride 2022. They range from pretty darned old to fairly new. They are each songs I really like, and many of them, love with all my gay heart. So I am going to try and one song to this list a day, and then repost it with that day’s date, moving the song from the day down one. I hope you like my list. And I would love to hear which ones you like, and tell me songs that make you feel Gay Pride!
As a bonus, you will find all the lyrics to the songs at the second half of this posting!
HAPPY GAY PRIDE!!
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GAY PRIDE SONG #25
What a truly powerful and deeply meaningful song. The lyrics reach deep into so many of us. Grasp our hearts. Make us long to show the world who we really are. And hopefully they call us to do exactly that. To no longer hind our True Colors from Anyone! What do we have to hide?
…the darkness inside you / Can make you feel so small … Your true colors are beautiful / Like a rainbow…
Why are we afraid to step out of the darkness? What do we think will happen if people know us for who we are? What is that so-called privacy all about anyway?
“True Colors” was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and was both the title track and the first single released from Cyndi Lauper’s second album. It was the only original song on the album that Lauper did not help to write and was released in 1986, became a major hit for Lauper, and spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
“True Colors” has obviously become a standard in the gay community. How could it not? In various interviews, Ms Lauper elaborated that the song had resonated with her because of the recent death of her friend, Gregory Natal, from HIV/AIDS.
Years later, Cyndi Lauper co-founded the True Colors Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating LGBT youth homelessness.
With its message. With talk of colors and rainbows. It sure makes me feel my true self, and is such a powerful Gay Anthem to me.