Gay and Straight Together

Gay and Straight Together is a landmark compilation with live recordings of both gay and straight songwriter-activists including Malvina Reynolds’s daughter Nancy Schimmel and feminist songwriter Kristin Lems. Produced by children’s music performer and Folkways artist Ginni Clemmens for Open Door Records, the album was released in 1981. Songs in various styles can be heard on the album, including uplifting sing-along anthems such as “Carry It On,” country-flavored “Piney Creek Woman,” humorous social satires like “Lezzie Queer,” and the pure, genre-defying inventiveness of “Weird.” The song lyrics are featured in the liner notes.

Track Listing

101	Song for His 'n' Hers	Jeffrey C. Jones	07:15
102	Pancake Blues	Kitty Barber	03:04
103	Love Somebody	Ginni Clemmens	03:08
104	Piney Creek Woman	Nancy Schimmel	02:36
105	Penguin Walk Rag	Lori Noelle	01:44
106	Weird	Vivian Davis, John Salewski, and Skip Harstirn	03:41
201	How Nice	Kristin Lems	03:40
202	Surprise	Paula Walowitz	02:40
203	Lezzie Queer	Judith Carsello	05:31
204	If You Got Gayness	Charlie Murphy	03:43
205	Carry it On	Dev Singh	03:41
206	Lately I See	Trisha Alexander	01:26
207	Dirty Old Woman	Merle Markland	02:02
208	Old Woman	Miss Saffman	02:29