Sing It Proud: 30 Songs to Play for Pride Month
Pride Month is well underway, and musicians across the world are using music as a way to celebrate love, acceptance, and diversity. However, this year’s Pride Month is different as June 28, 2019, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Stormé DeL
Pride Month is well underway, and musicians across the world are using music as a way to celebrate love, acceptance, and diversity. However, this year’s Pride Month is different as June 28, 2019, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Stormé DeLarverie, and other queer patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City fought back against yet another police raid on the club. Though the first official Pride parade took place the following year, Stonewall was the direct progenitor of Pride as we know it.
The LGBTQ+ community still faces massive struggles to this day, but the past fifty years have nonetheless brought a lot of hard-won progress. 2019’s musical landscape is incredibly diverse, and artists like Janelle Monae, Frank Ocean, and Sam Smith can be out and proud. Musicnotes is proud to support the LGBTQ+ community by offering sheet music from a plethora (a rainbow, dare we say?) of queer and queer-friendly artists. Here are some of our favorite songs for Pride.
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- “Girls and Boys” – Blur
- “HIM” – Sam Smith
- “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” – Elton John and Taron Egerton
- “Make Me Feel” – Janelle Monae
- “Girls/Girls/Boys” – Panic! at the Disco
- “The Village” – Wrabel
- “Secrets” – Mary Lambert
- “Stronger Than You” – Steven Universe
- “Freedom! ’90” – George Michael
- “Raise You Up / Just Be” – Kinky Boots
- “I’ll Cover You” – RENT
- “I’m Coming Out” – Diana Ross
- “Bad Habit” – Ben Platt
- “Brave” – Sara Bareilles
- “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” – Sylvester
- “True Colors” – Cyndi Lauper
- “Don’t Stop Me Now” – Queen
- “Ring of Keys” – Fun Home
- “Closer to Fine” – Indigo Girls
- “Forrest Gump” – Frank Ocean
- “Livin’ La Vida Loca” – Ricky Martin
- “Rise Like a Pheonix” – Conchita Wurst
- “Come To My Window” – Melissa Etheridge
- “1950” – King Princess
- “Lovers” – Carol
- “Born This Way” – Lady Gaga
- “Closer” – Tegan and Sara
- “You Are The Reason” – Calum Scott
- “My My My!” – Troye Sivan
- “Breezin’ Alone With the Breeze” – Josephine Baker
We hope you’ve enjoyed our selections for Pride. If you didn’t see the song you were looking for here, make sure to search for it at musicnotes.com so you can play it loud and sing it proud!