With the exception of songs like Lady Gaga's Born This Way or Diana Ross's, I'm Coming Out, very few pop songs written as a tribute to LGBT folks have ever reached the top of the charts.

But that doesn't mean the songs that weren't so gay to begin with

couldn't end up being the soundtrack at our favorite bars, drag shows, or pride celebrations.

Today, we take a look at songs that didn't start out as gay anthems,

but somehow the cover versions ultimately became LGBT legendary tracks.

Listen as we take a look at Soft Sells Tainted Love.

Cindy Lopper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Grace Jones's La Vienne Rose,

the theme song of the Golden Girls,

Thank you for Being a Friend, and much more.

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Thank you. Sometimes I feel I've got to run away, I've got to get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me the love we share seems to go nowhere and I've lost my light for I toss and turn.

I can't sleep at night.

Once I ran to you.

That is Mark Alman singing Tainted Love in the 1980s synth pop duo Soft Cell, which was a huge hit at its time.

Oh my God, it was a huge hit.

Now, the New Music Express, which is a British music journalism magazine, and they've

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