Results for: be the change
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Queer Your Ears June 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I’m interested in Pride as a time for angry resistance! As such, I’ve got a bunch of new queer rock music to share.
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Queer Your Ears July 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I’m rediscovering how much I love simple, catchy, fun pop music. There’s some other solid rock, folk, and R&B this month, though, too!
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Queer Your Ears: The 50 Best Albums Of The 2010s By Queer & Trans Musicians
The 2010s was an incredibly gay decade in music. Queer and trans musicians gained more visibility and success than ever before over the last 10 years! Here are the best 50 albums of the decade, according to me.
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Queer Your Ears April 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
It’s a great time to be queer and/or trans music fan! There was SO MUCH incredible music to cover this month.
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For Your Consideration: Weekly Karaoke
Once you start going to karaoke every week, you can process your emotions in real-time via song just like a character in a movie musical.
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VIDEO PREMIERE: Alex G’s New Music Video, ‘Pray It Away,’ Creates Her Own Salvation
“Honestly, it’s for younger me who really needed to know that you could be queer and loved by God at the same time.”
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Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Gay Cowgirl, but Fancy
Imagine if Coley Taylor from “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” saw Hayley Kiyoko’s “Girls Like Girls” video first day of sophomore year of college and it freaking changed her life. I’m her ten years later.
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Monday Roundtable: Hey DJ Play That (Gay) Song
The first musician or song that you felt in your heart and brain was gay was a big moment for many of us — here are the gay songs we first knew and loved.
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Pansexual Iraqi-Syrian Musician Wafia Doesn’t Have to Explain Herself
Wafia and I chatted about being brown, queer, Muslim, and how those things influence her as an artist.
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Julia Weldon’s “Comatose Hope” Captures the Anger and Catharsis of Being a Non-Binary Artist
We chatted with Weldon about their new music video for “When You Die,” their upcoming NYC show, and the revival of their childhood acting career.
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10 Incredible Queer and Trans Artists to Get You Ready for Summer
Some of these songs and/or albums are dark, slow, and ponderous, great for really sinking into your mattress. Most of them, though, are cute, sweet, upbeat tracks that helped me keep going when it seemed like I was going to never leave my house again.
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Types of Crying as Mitski Songs
“Intense but very brief sobbing in the shower while you get ready for work because your roommate never leaves the fucking apartment and it’s the only time you can.”
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Celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day With This Lesbian Playlist, Lesbians
Spend your Lesbian Visibility Day with some tunes by lesbians who make music and also acknowledge themselves as lesbians!
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Janelle Monáe’s Queer “Pynk” Music Video Is Here To Wreak More Havoc On Your Heart and Body
“Pink, like the tongue that goes down. Pink, like the paradise found”
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Lesbian Jesus Hayley Kiyoko is Nylon’s Pride Issue Cover Girl and I Wrote The Story
Lesbian icon pop star Hayley Kiyoko is the cover girl for Nylon’s first-ever LGBT Pride issue, and also the love of your life.
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5 New Releases From Queer and Trans Artists To Ready You For Spring
New music for flirting or lonely lesbian nights. Your call!
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King Princess Singing About Queer Love and Undying Desire in “1950” Will Make Your Heart Ache
“So tell me why my gods look like you, and tell me why it’s wrong,” King Princess sings to the woman of her affection, promising to keep praying to her and loving her. This is a song about an aching, yearning love that is scared to speak itself out loud but bold enough to keep on loving.
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Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Queer Lady Magician
Being a Queer Lady Magician to me means sharing the truths of our lives in unexpected, thought-provoking ways, instilling a sense of wonder, expanding our imaginations around what is possible.
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Day in the Life: On Tour With Australian Songwriter Alex Lahey
I met up with singer-songwriter Alex Lahey while on tour at her San Diego show.
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Tegan and Sara Want to Be “As Gay As They Can Be” and Other Revelations From The Nancy Podcast
Our pals Kathy Tu and Tobin Low chatted with Tegan and Sara before their recent NYC show. You can listen right now, right this very second.