but so great as well

But in recent years anything that isn't overtly heterosexual has come to be classed as gay. It's just an example of the current neurotic attitude to sex and sexuality.

With Viva hate!
You hadn't seen see it!!!!

As in... "Let me get my hands on your..."

Surely a strange line to appear on the second gayest album of all time.

Some people are gay. Get over it. No big deal. What a *pathetic* idea to come up with a list of "gayest" albums?

hahahahaha!! "gayest"??
well I can't argue with that, I just find it hilarious!!

I think Scissor Sisters (I can never spell their name right) should be included in this list?

This list knows nothing about "gay".

Why label this as "gay"? We live in 2008 for God's sake. Believe me: sexuality really makes NO difference. Some people hope to think that it does - but it doesnt.

is he gay?

It's not funny and it's not cool. Fuck off.

There are a few gay references on The Smiths albums. Songs like This Charming Man, Hand in Glove & Handsome Devil ...but why do people overlook the vast amount of lyrics about females and relationships with women. Or songs which contain heterosexual themes. Songs like...

The Hand that rocks the cradle
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Well I wonder...
Wonderful Woman
Jeane (is likely a girl)
Miserable Lie ("I followed Her" at the end)
These things take time
Girl Afraid
London
William, it was really nothing
Ask
Girlfriend in a Coma (Obviously)
Stop Me...
I Won't Share You

I always wonder why these are overlooked when the references to homosexual relationships are so few compared to heterosexual references, or plain ambiguity in the lyrics. I thinks it's because they exist at all...(and because Morrissey always looks so gay). I just thought that these may be points of interest for the heterosexual fan or anyone who thinks the Smiths are gay and that's all there is to them.

MICROPENIS

but one which also seems confused about its criteria - Judy Garland had a gay following (but wasn't gay), Elton John is gay (but the lyricist Bernie Taupin is straight and the songs don't exactly have a "gay" subtext), some of the artists on the list may well be gay but aren't publicly "out" (mentioning no names ...), and then there's the vigorously heterosexual David Bowie who seems to be at Number One simply by virtue of having worn make-up and flamboyant clothes at the time that Ziggy Stardust was written (since everyone knows that his big "I'm gay ...erm.. I mean bisexual ...but I've never actually shagged a guy" interview to Melody Maker in 1972 was nothing more than a publicity stunt); so does make-up and theatrical stagewear constitute "gay" in 2008? Pathetic.

No wonder I felt weird playing the Smiths in front of male friends.

"The Easter Bunny gives B* Jobs" is the gayest album by far. Elton John should be 2nd.

Well Done. You have all done very well.

Can't really see why Ziggy Stardust was chosen,
but Judy Garland and Elton John, definitely.
    As for The Smiths, oh well whatever..

This is so stupid. Why do we care? I am sick of lists.

Well Graham Norton thinks its a gay LP and as him and Elton John are the leaders (NOT queens) of the new homo movement then this should be in the top 10 at least.

Personally I could never work out if Boy George was a girl or a boy back in the day.....

If you are not gay, you cannot be a real Morrissey fan!

Morrissey is gay and so are his true fans.

EVERYBODY knows it.

I find it quite annoying what is made of lyrics that are gender neutral. The Smiths' lyrics have all sorts of combinations and some songs don't refer to gender at all but just people.

Reading comments on the Smiths lyrics on the internet and homosexuals I am in fact developing a deep aversion against homosexuals, because they are all over the place and totally ignore that Morrissey's lyrics are so gender neutral at times that they are not "of course" (as they claim) homosexual but speak also for women just as they do for men. I had a talk to another woman the other week and she also said that when she was young Morrissey's lyrics just spoke so perfectly to her as a young female teenager!

It is in the nature of western societies being so stuck in all that gender stuff that there is even that urge to simply ignore gender neutrality. After all, even those gay couples are so stuck and narrow minded about it that they play man and woman in their relationships. Pathetic. And now this list. Wonder if there will ever be such a list of "most gender neutral" albums. But hey, that would be too demanding for most narrow minded brains, even homosexual ones or particularly those.

..The Smiths were always quintessentially English, specifically Northern, but never gay.

I suppose you had to be there.

...can't quite see why meat is gayer than hatful cause it's all about NOT eating meat isn't it?
OK...Queen is Dead has Queen in the title and Frankly Mr Shankly, fair enough...but...it also has some girls are bigger than others...unless he means 'girls' in a new york type gay way!
Hmmm...it's all so confusing...

Their lead singer was a bit iffy however
So I've heard on the streets
irene
Not for me to comment as im a non entity on here.
Just a word of warning.
Dont drop your soap in the shower.

.... and told no one!!

We Are The People.
Fuck The Pope.
King Billy 1690
No Surrender.

I wonder what percentage of Morrissey fans are Gay or Lesbian..just out of curiosity..it would be an interesting demographic. My guess..80% of the men that listen to him are heterosexual..and 90% of the women are heterosexual..just based on fans I have met and scoping the demographics at past concerts.

The Smiths music is significant to homosexuals because it celebrates being an 'outsider', something which many gay folks could relate to growing up. I think that anyone who get upset at the prospect of The Smiths being a 'gay band' is missing the point. They belong to everybody, and the fact that Moz so freely plays with gender roles and classifications opens their music to everyone... straight, gay, bi, asexual, whatever. And yes, Morrissey is most likely gay himself, so get over it.
-easymeat