Happy Pride from the Richmond Progressive Alliance!

We celebrate the beautiful and expansive LGBTQ+ community.

We honor our queer and trans ancestors who suffered from government persecution, hate crimes, HIV/AIDS, shame and social stigma. We also commemorate those who fought for liberation. We remember that Pride was born of protests against police brutality (amidst the criminalization of “same-sex” dancing), including Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco in 1966 and Stonewall in New York City in 1969.

We commit to resisting homophobia and transphobia in our lives and in our laws, international persecution of LGBTQ+ people, and the racism within the LGBTQ+ community.

Please enjoy this pride playlist, a compilation of songs submitted by LGBTQ+ RPA members. Listen on Spotify, or as individual YouTube links:

We commit to resisting homophobia and transphobia in our lives and in our laws, international persecution of LGBTQ+ people, and the racism within the LGBTQ+ community.

Please enjoy this pride playlist, a compilation of songs submitted by LGBTQ+ RPA members. Listen on Spotify, or as individual YouTube links:

1. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Submitted anonymously. Sylvester left all royalties from his work to San Francisco based HIV/AIDS organizations.
   
2. The Weather Girls - Submitted anonymously. It’s Raining Men 
   
3. Cher - Believe Submitted by Marisol Cantú
   
4. Lady Gaga - Born This Way Submitted by Marisol Cantú
   
5. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody Submitted by anonymous. A joyful anthem with (mostly) gender neutral lyrics. 
   
6. Kaytranada featuring Syd - You're the One Submitted anonymously. Beautiful collaboration between two queer artists: producer Kaytranada and singer Syd.
   
7. Lil Nas X - Montero (Call Me By Your Name) Submitted by Marisol Cantú
   
8. Violent Femmes - Kiss Off Submitted by Jamin Pursell. 
   
9. LP - Girls Go Wild Submitted by Jeanne Kortz “I love LP (Laura Pergolizzi). She's a lesbian who has made it big. She's an incredible singer, songwriter, musician and performer. She has written songs for Cher, Rihanna, the Backstreet Boys, and others. She's a huge indy star. Saw her at the Fox Theater recently. She's extremely nice. Met her at the sound check. She's very easy to talk to.”
   
10. Indigo Girl - Closer to Fine Submitted by Pam Stello “The first song I chose for this Jeanne (my soon to be wife) said, 'OMG, you’re going to put everyone to sleep!'"  
    
11. The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry Submitted by Jamin Pursell. 
    
12. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car Submitted by Sophie Van Ronselé "I too grew up in a small town and was dreaming of living my queer life in the big city!"
13. Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man Submitted anonymously. "I read Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg with the first woman I ever fell in love with. In it, the main character recalls dancing with the love of her life for the first time at a gay bar: 'Tammy was singing Stand By Your Man, and we were changing all the he’s to she’s inside our heads to make it fit right.' I’ve thought it’s the perfect slow dance song ever since."
14. Queen- Don’t Stop Me Now Submitted anonymously. 
    
15. Leo Delibes- The Flower Duet (Lakme) Submitted by Sara Cantor “This song began its chokehold on queer media through its feature in The Hunger (1983) - if you haven't seen it yet, I highly suggest you change that immediately.”
    
16. SAULT- Masterpiece Submitted anonymously.