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What makes a gay anthem?

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The Disruptiveness of Queer Anthems

Songs like Pidam Pidam demonstrate that queer anthems can be wildly inclusive and contain multitudes. One of the first gay anthems is noted to be the German cabaret song Das Leyla Lied, which my terrible German accent translates to the lavender song. Nothing about Kylie Minogue's song on paper is openly or explicitly gay or even gay adjacent. What makes it that way is the implicated desire within pedom and the implicit connections with queer culture.

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