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    Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-1981Various Artists

    Chapter Music
    • Everyone Involved – A Gay Song
    • Charlie Murphy – Gay Spirit
    • Blackberri – It's Okay
    • Smokey – Strong Love
    • Robert Campbell – Dreamboy
    • Michael Cohen – Evil & Lusty
    • Lavender Country – Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears
    • Chris Robison – Big Strong Man In My Life
    • Steven Grossman – Out
    • Tom Robinson – Good To Be Gay
    • Buena Vista – Hot Magazine
    • International Gay Society – Stand Up For Your Rights
    • Scrumbly & Martin – Hots For A Hustler
    • Paul Wagner – The One
    • 1. Everyone Involved – A Gay Song
    • 2. Charlie Murphy – Gay Spirit
    • 3. Blackberri – It's Okay
    • 4. Smokey – Strong Love
    • 5. Robert Campbell – Dreamboy
    • 6. Michael Cohen – Evil & Lusty
    • 7. Lavender Country – Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears
    • 8. Chris Robison – Big Strong Man In My Life
    • 9. Steven Grossman – Out
    • 10. Tom Robinson – Good To Be Gay
    • 11. Buena Vista – Hot Magazine
    • 12. International Gay Society – Stand Up For Your Rights
    • 13. Scrumbly & Martin – Hots For A Hustler
    • 14. Paul Wagner – The One
    • 15. Conan – Tell Ol' Anita [DIGITAL ONLY]

    'Strong Love' explores the first wave of openly gay songwriting that emerged after New York's Stonewall Riots kickstarted the modern gay rights movement in 1969. It took just a few years for the defiant chanting and interlocked arms of early 70s pride marches to reverberate onto record, and Strong Love begins with one of the earliest known recordings of openly gay songwriting, 1972's 'A Gay Song' by London hippie collective Everyone Involved. Across 15 tracks, the compilation takes in disarmingly personal folk, uplifting soul, outsider country and dark synth-rock.

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