P gets number #1 for same-sex love song!

["Dennis Moore" <clayboy56>]

Queering Classic Love Songs
by Christie Keith, July 26, 2006

http://www.afterellen.com/Music/2006/7/classicsongs.html

[snip] Along with those better known boy-to-girl cover songs are a few
gems that, due to age or genre, might be less familiar to lesbian
audiences. Some, like Patti Smith's "Gloria," are overt love songs to
a woman; others, like the Indigo Girls' rendition of Bob Dylan's
"Along the Watchtower" or Etheridge's hot cover of "Son of a Preacher
Man," are not. And some, like the Raincoats' cover of the Kinks'
"Lola," are just impossible to categorize.

But if it's lesbian love you're looking for, there's no better place
to find it than in between these covers. Here's a look at the Top 10
queered covers of heterosexual love songs. [snip]

1. "Gloria" by Patti Smith
You know this isn't going to be much like the Van Morrison original
when proto-punk rocker Patti Smith sneers, "Jesus died for somebody's
sins, but not mine" as the opening line. Released in 1975 on her debut
album Horses, "Gloria" interweaves Smith's own lyrics with Morrison's,
turning his love song into a story of Smith's sexual obsession with a
woman named Gloria. It's erotic, wild, and hard, and possibly the most
frankly sexual lesbian rock song ever recorded.

[I don't know why but this made me feel a bit better today after
hearing about the WA St Supreme Court's upholding The Defense of
Marrage Act here. (It also helped by an ad on their site I discovered:
http://www.fakegaynews.com/ - because real gay news is too damn
depressing.)]

unfolding peace
Dennis