STREAM: The ROLLING STONE 50 Most Inspirational LGBTQ Songs of All Time

[@thevirtualtraveler]

How do we feel about Lil Nas X - Montero? As an ally, I can't say for certain, but I feel like for a certain segment of the population, that song might have meant a lot. And yes, it is absolutely criminal that they left Teagan & Sara, and The Indigo Girls off the list.

[@trickynotes9548]

The fact Sylvester is nowhere to be found is a travesty. The closest we have is Martha Wash who sang background vocals for him back in the day with 2 Tons O Fun

[@CountryChristmasCripple]

OF COURSE Born This Way is No. 1. Not a lot of people in this list who are black/poc musicians and that’s not surprising lol

[@TheAbstruseOne]

So I was working while I watched the recording on this but it seems like the list is 25 entries of "What the hell is this doing on here?!", 10 entries of "This artist should be here but why the hell did they pick this song?!", 14 entries of "Why the hell is this song so low?!", and Lady Gaga.

[@unheardsirensincorporated2036]

Some snubs off the top of my head: SOPHIE, Depeche Mode, Tegan and Sara, Culture Club...

[@ElliYeetYT]

The Best Ones Truly came in different places on the list, rather fun stream. But yeah the one with SIA… hoo boy that was the one that infuriated me the most. Also Yeah Big Gay Hulk was robbed.

[@eliasmg9144]

#6, 5 and 4 are good pick tho

[@YouCanCallMeXoe]

Oh boy, Rolling Stone wants me to break something. Look, Taylor is a good musician and songwriter, and I'm glad she's an ally, but You Need To Calm Down is up for debate as being one of the WORST LGBTQ songs ever written. I couldn't give less of a shit whether or not the queer positive verse of the song IS sincere, when it SOUNDS insincere to a naked degree. Not to mention how she tries to compare the struggles of the LGBTQ community to how she has online haters is revoltingly insulting, and the generalization of hicks as braindead homophobes in the video makes it far, FAR worse. Some would argue we should take what we can get, and not look a gift horse in the mouth. I would argue that good intentions are not free from criticism, and they never will be.

[@directamplification]

Yeah, even as a big fan of Taylor, that song comes across tone-deaf as hell.

[@rocketgeek96]

Okay. I think at this point I should call myself a Swiftie. Though, I should clarify I mean "listen to her new music the day it drops" Swiftie, not "stand outside her recording studio for hours at a time just to catch a glimpse of her" Swiftie. Her music has gotten me through some tough shit these last few years. I would argue, both despite and because of her success and fame, that Taylor Swift is one of the most important musicians of the 21st century. Why in the name of Christ is You Need To Calm Down on any list of best LGBTQ songs at all, let alone "most inspirational(!?!?!?)." Put simply, YNTCD is not just a bad song. If I were to rank all of Taylor's songs, YNTCD would rank in the bottom 10, without question. It's not even just bad representation, it's arguably negative representation, in that it boils down the decades long fight for justice and equality for the LGBTQ community to be roughly equal morally to quasi-anonymous "haters" on social media bullying her for stupid reasons, not to mention the stereotyping of all Southerners as homophobic hillbillies that are a few cans short of a 12 pack, as if the LGBTQ community and their allies fighting tirelessly alongside them apparently don't exist south of the Mason-Dixon. Plus let's not forget that she preceded this single with her lead single ME!, a nearly unlistenable pile of pop trash featuring a singer that actually came out as pansexual less than a year before the song's release that instead focused on how great and awesome and cool Taylor is as a person, and whose only impact on pop culture is Swifties making videos jumpscaring Taylor's more somber songs with ME-HE-HEE!!! I can't stand listening to ME!, and yet YNTCD might actually be worse that that. Honestly, I consider Lover to be Taylor's best pure pop album, and yet I totally understand anyone who dipped out after her first two singles. Meanwhile Cruel Summer, the song that everyone knows should've been the lead single, ended up staying as an album track for four years until a surge on Spotify led her to release it as an actual single during the Eras Tour, THREE ALBUMS LATER!!!!! I don't even listen to YNTCD or ME! whenever I relisten to Lover, since i can just easily replace them with Only The Young and AOTGYLB, two songs that do a much better job at political commentary and poppy heartfelt love songs respectively.

[@obzzidian94]

Glad to see even some Swifties agree that this song sucks hard

[@lucindalockhart]

Unsure if anyone has mentioned them but up here in WA there was a hardcore punk banked called GLOSS (Girls Living Outside Societies Shit) who have an EP named Trans Day of Revenge. Its a solid 6 minutes of fury I cannot recommend enough. Also if memory serves I got recommended Ordinary Life by We Are The Union from you, and that one broke my shell. So. Thank you.

[@agogobell28]

I love the Musical Hell shoutout!

[@lazybones7326]

Happy Ending over We Are Golden or freaking GRACE KELLY?!

[@trippwraze1509]

I hate to step on some of The Rolling Stones old decrepit toes, but if you’re making a list of great lgbtq+ songs, the songs themselves should be written by lgbtq+ people

[@tylerhackner9731]

Could’ve been a better list. Great stream

[@wh4teley]

I would have shit if HIRS Collective made the list.

[@squareroot9423]

Hope you see this one day, but, even if I might disagree with some of your pics, in the future it would be cool to make a community video on a top LGBT songs so we can make justice where it needs to be. Cuz if it was me, songs like Immaterial by SOPHIE, Flamboyant by Dorian Electra, Androgynous by The Replacements, LITERALLY ANYTHING FROM JANELLE MONAE

[@obzzidian94]

The fact that they unironically included the song that goes "shade never made anybody less gay" on this "inspirational" LGBT list is so funny to me lol.

[@FanofChowder]

Yeah, after watching the full stream, this list isn't the best, some surprises, but this list definitely needed some work. I didn't see anyone mention this, but I personally would have gone with "Butterfly", if I had to pick a Mariah song.

[@ringer1324]

As a member of the LGBT mafia this list isn’t great imo. Not awful but not great

[@idontknow-re9dx]

You know this is a bad list when equal rights by conner4real is missing, that is THE LGBTQIA+ anthem

[@daveandgena3166]

Diana Ross' 1980 "I'm Coming Out" wasn't even on the list????

[@94evangelion]

Seriously, no Chely Wright? Like, im glad Follow your Arrow is there but no Chely.

[@DustyThePunk]

So, I had to go back and check the list myself, because I am surprised Tracy Chapman was not represented on this list anywhere. That was a massive miss.

[@SaintofM]

Ke$ha has a song called Godzilla, how is she not on top?

[@cyanmanta]

If any Sara Bareilles hit was going to be a queer anthem, it should have been King of Anything. …I’m not drowning, there’s no one here to save… …You dare tell me who to be?… …You’ve got opinions, man, we’re all entitled to ‘em… …You sound so innocent, so full of ‘good intent’… …Who cares if you disagree? You are NOT me… It kind of works, doesn’t it? It’s a song about telling off an asshole who’s talking down to you and acting like he has a better idea who and what you should be than you do. How is that not the queer experience right there?

[@LounoirRecords]

uninspired to say the least but, it's rolling stone no shock there :)

[@NinasNon-Sense]

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that I Just Want To Fucking Dance by Alison Jier isn't on this list and also that this list is by a random straight instern.

[@josephinepaquette]

They should have put equal rights by conner4real on this list

[@SabbathBloodySabbath03]

Bronski Beat deserved better