Various Artists - Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 - Baby Pink Vinyl

On limited Baby Pink vinyl. Originally released on CD in 2012, Chapter's landmark compilation of 70s gay musical

pioneers gets a vinyl release for the first time ever - and on pink vinyl to boot! Strong Love explores the first wave of openly gay songwriting, emerging 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 the earliest known example, 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. But tellingly, none of it's songs could be considered well-known. 

Tracks:

• 1 A Gay Song
• 2 Gay Spirit
• 3 It's Okay
• 4 Strong Love
• 5 Dreamboy
• 6 Evil & Lusty
• 7 Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears
• 8 Big Strong Man in My Life
• 9 Out
• 10 Good to Be Gay
• 11 Hot Magazine
• 12 Stand Up for Your Rights
• 13 Hots for a Hustler
• 14 The One