It’s PRIDE week in most parts of the world, and it's a very special time in the calendar to raise awareness about LGTBQ equal rights. 
To offer a soundtrack on this day for celebration, Johann Wald and Adam Kershaw, from RPS-2 show Queer Sounds, travel along the timeline of historic events where freedom to love any person regardless of their gender or sexual preference, was marked by a specific song or involved a brave group of artists who dared to confront the rigid norms of social acceptance.
We focus on openly bi-sexual Blues icons, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, the cultural significance of Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow", the Stonewall Rebellion, 60's pop icons who dared to come out like Dusty Springfield, gay anthems, the first Heavy Metal openly gay singer, the queerness of punk and the seismic difference Frank Ocean made when he posted that letter on his Tumblr.
George Michael - Freedom
Ma Rainey - Prove It On Me Blues
Bessie Smith - 'Tain't Nobody's Biznes If I Do
Rufus Wainwright - Over The Rainbow (Live at Carnegie Hall)
Dinah Washington - Mad About the Boy
Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Young Folks
Martha reeves & The Vandellas - Loneliness Is A Lonely Feeling
Dusty Springfield - You Don't Own Me
Dusty Springfield - Baby Don't You Know
David Bowie - All the Young Dudes
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love With Someone
Divine - The Name Game
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love
Judas Priest - Riding On the Wind
Patrick Cowley & Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk
Ellis D - Just Like A Queen - Vogue Like A Queen
Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You
Tyler, The Creator - Garden Shed