Pride Weekend Song of the Day - Same Love - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, feat. Mary Lambert

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Although there is plenty not to love about going into NYC for the Pride Parade...huge crowds, the heat, tired feet...I always feel a certain invisible pull, something that makes me want to be a part of it because there is something special about being there.  I was there when New York State legalized same sex marriage, and again when it became the law of the land, but this year I am unfortunately committed to festivities at school which prevent me from going.  This song has become an anthem for the movement over the last few years, from a straight ally who puts it all so succinctly and with no b.s., just truth.  So for whatever it's worth, Happy Pride Day everyone!  Check out Same Love...  

Pride Weekend Song of the Day - Born This Way - Lady Gaga

We continue our celebration of pride with one of the most iconic of Pride songs ever, telling y'all something we've always known.  Check out a live Grammy performance of Lady Gaga's Born This Way.

Flashback Friday Pride Weekend Song of the Day - Peacock - Katy Perry

It is Pride Weekend in New York City and what better to get things started off with a wonderfully gay video of an oh so humorously metaphoric tune by Ms. Katy Perry.  I've posted this video before.  It's by a fellow named Ryan James Yezak and it's absolutely mesmerizing and fun to watch.  Check it out... 

Pride Weekend Song of the Day - Pride (A Deeper Love) - C & C Music Factory

Well, better late than never.  I just returned home from an overnight stay in NYC during which I enjoyed the festivities at this year's Gay Pride Parade.  Oh, when this song played the crowd went goose-bump-inducing wild!  Happy Pride!

Pride Song of the Day - Love Is the Healer - Donna Summer

It was four years ago that I attended only my second NYC Gay Pride Parade and it was a massive turnout.  That was because just two days prior, New York State passed the Marriage Equality Act, making it only the 6th state in the nation to have marriage equality for all,  It was a proud day to be a New Yorker and the celebration that Sunday in June of 2011 was amazing.

Yesterday, the final walls came crumbling down as the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision making same sex marriage the law of the land in all 50 states.  The decision sent ripples of pride throughout the country as people everywhere celebrated a long, hard-fought victory.  The catch-phrase of the day was Love Wins, and it couldn't have been truer said.  Finally, love is love, no matter what, and I am as proud to be an American today as I was to be a New Yorker back in 2011...

Flashback Friday Song of the Day - Proud - Heather Small

It's Pride Weekend in New York and in many other places around the globe, and so here's a Flashback Friday post hearkening back to 2000 and M People's Heather Small with one of my favorite songs ever...

HAPPY PRIDE!