PRIDE Playlist: the feeling to be queer in 2019

The month of June has been chosen as the month to commemorate the riots that occurred on June 28, 1969 in New York, specifically at the The Stonewall Inn located in the gay district [Greenwich Village] of Manhattan. That night a police commission raided the venue and it was the first time in the United States that the LGBTQ + community opposed and manifested against the arrests, physical and verbal abuse, among other aggressions of the authorities.

It is considered that it was the first step of homosexual liberation, seeking to establish a place for queer people in society. Since then the members of the community were motivated not to feel ashamed of their biological sex, orientation or sexual identity and / or their gender role.

At WIDE we celebrate the LGBTQ + pride throughout the year, but close to this date we definitely use all the colours of the visible spectrum to shine the light to our team and the artists who inspire us. For this, we made a playlist of how it feels to be queer in 2019 although this can be a very subjective feeling, we definitely still connect through music.

The lines between the different representations of each letter in the LGBTQ + community in the millennial generation and Z are becoming more and more blurred as we explore our identities, recognise their complexity and become more courageous in expressing them.

We are in the anticipated construction of the moment when the first trans rap singer headlines the Glastonbury to say just one example. While that day comes, artists like Lil Nas X, who peformed next to Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus at this festival, feed from that welcoming energy to publicly express their sexual orientation as a gay man. On the other hand, King Princess and Shura had presentations that were a bold wink to being a proud queer women (as Princess is defined) and a lesbian.

If you were born after 1990 you will become obsessed with this playlist. From classics to feel proud with Born this way, Rupaul and Scissor Sisters to the new names of the queer alternative names such as Yves Tumor and Kindness. Oh and for our latinx queens and kings we included some extras at the end to start the rumba [party]. In this playlist we celebrate the pride of being queer in 2019.