IN A GAY BAR SONG SERIES
Four years later, in 1981, Toronto police arrested 306 people in a series of bathhouse raids known as Operation Soap. In 1977, police stormed Montreal gay bars Truxx and Le Mystique, resulting in the largest mass arrest since the October Crisis. Watch Musgraves sing “Dreams” - with the help of her fans at the bar - below. Brutal police raids of gay bars and bathhouses persisted. While the career stuff is great, it’s fleeting. / I wanna take you to a gay bar / I wanna take you to a gay bar / I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar / Lets start a war, start a nuclear war / At the gay bar Featured Charts Videos. So, to my friends in the LGBTQ community: Thank you. The singer continued, “‘Follow Your Arrow’ may have tanked on the country radio chart, but that song specifically has brought so much meaning, happiness, and listeners to my music that may not have been there otherwise. Country music has always been a genre built on songs and stories celebrating real life so I took it upon myself to include my own awakening into my music and knew that I would be taking some heat for it.” “As I got deeper into the country community I realized how many still felt the need to hide their identities. So bookmark or memorize this list so that next time you are staring at a song request slip at your favorite piano bar (eh-hem), you will know exactly what to put in that will get everyone dancing and singing along. It started to enrage me that I’d had some previous misunderstanding about a group of people that I now love so much and have so much in common with,” she wrote. The best song requests to put into any piano bar, jukebox, DJ or whatever. The song that is a unifier, the one that gets everyone to passionately belt out with.
“I shortly moved to Nashville where I made tons of gay friends and started going to the few gay clubs we have in town. This song is the one that makes you, a poor man's Eeyore, and the rest of the downtrodden bar come to LIFE. In a 2017 letter to the LGBTQ+ community that was published in Billboard, Musgraves recalled her early days in Nashville, when her experiences visiting gay clubs helped influence her outlook and her music. The 33-year-old has long been a champion of the LGBTQ+ community, and in 2014, her song “Follow Your Arrow”– with its pointed lyric “Kiss lots of boys/ Or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into”– was named song of the year at the Country Music Association Awards. FILE - In this file photo, Taylor Swift arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In an interview on FOX news Red Eye, Dick Valentine said he got the inspiration for this song when he was at a bar and he heard the song 'Girl U Want' by Devo and mistook the lyrics as 'Shes just a girl, Shes just a girl at a gay bar'.
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