Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: The Best Music of 2022, as published by Gay City News along with a list of songs from other albums and some notable reissues from LGBTQ artists

• Anteloper
  Pink Dolphins
• Benny the Butcher
  Tana Talk 4
• Black Midi
  Hellfire
• Fievel Is Glauque
  Flaming Swords
• Ezra Furman
  All Of Us Flames
• The 1975
  Being Funny in a Foreign Language
• Sault
  11
• Taylor Swift
  Midnights
• Hikaru Utada
  Bad Mode
• Yeat
  Lyfë

Runners-up

• Adeem the Artist
  White Trash Revelry
• Afrorack
  The Afrorack
• Bad Bunny
  Un Verano Sin Ti
• Belle and Sebastian
  A Bit of Previous
• Bruno Berle
  No Reino Dos Afetos
• The Beths
  Expert in a Dying Field
• Big Thief
  Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
• Burial
  Antidawn
• Alison Cotton
  The Portrait You Painted of Me
• Kabza De Small
  KOA II Part 1
• (G)I-dle
  I Love
• Aldous Harding
  Warm Chris
• Mary Halvorson
  Amaryllis
• Mary Halvorson
  Belladonna
• Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa
  N'Djila Wa Mudujimu
• Sélébéyone, Steve Lehman, Maciek Lasserre
  Xaybu: The Unseen
• Little Simz
  No Thank You
• Moundabout
  Flowers Rot, Bring me Stones
• Muna
  Muna
• Orville Peck
  Bronco
• Perfume Genius
  Ugly Season
• Raw Poetic
  Space Beyond the Solar System
• Romance
  Once Upon A Time
• Rosalía
  Motomami
• 700 Bliss
  Nothing To Declare
• Oliver Sim
  Hideous Bastard
• Vince Staples
  Ramona Park Broke My Heart
• Stray Kids
  Oddinary
• Stromae
  Multitude
• SZA
  SOS
• They Hate Change
  Finally, New
• Yung Kayo
  DFTK