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What’s been amazing is that the song has been embraced by a lot of different people. “It felt especially charged, so the song came from this very pure place that did happen to have to do with gay issues. “At the time there was a lot of dialogue about gay rights in the zeitgeist,” she explains. Still, she had no expectations of it becoming an anthem. Heralding a new stage in Bareilles’ career, according to the singer/songwriter the song was written “as a love letter to a very good friend of mine who was struggling to come out as gay later in life.” A year later, Sara Bareilles released ‘Brave’, a track from her album The Blessed Unrest, another gay civil rights anthem from a straight pop star that soared to the top of the global charts. ‘Born This Way’) can be read as gay anthems, it is only with the release of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s ‘Same Love’ in 2012 that the first global gay civil rights anthem was born. But while her song ‘Express Yourself’ (and Gaga’s similar Of course, long before Beyoncé and Jay Z spoke out for same sex marriage, or Lady Gaga took a stand against the US military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, Madonna was advocating for gay rights. As her career moves into book writing, musical theatre and laying down tracks with Seth McFarlane, along with her own recording and touring, she has no intention of giving up the fight for gay rights, she tells Jane Casey.Īlthough throughout the years many pop stars have aligned themselves with the gay community, it is only in recent times that certain heterosexual performers have become identified as ‘straight allies’. Sara Bareilles’ 2013 single, ‘Brave’ was a civil rights anthem inspired by her passionate interest in LGBT issues, and the plight of a friend.
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