There is homosexuality all over The Smiths, virtually on every album. It's wonderful.

Well, the cover of the HIG single in Britain was a man's bare behind, so draw your own conclusions.
Instead of the "is he or isn't he" debate, it would be great if people acknowledged the extremely high, even literary quality of the writing in Pretty Girls Make Graves. I love that line, "Give in to lust, heaven knows we'll soon be dust" Brilliant.

"Lucky Lisp" is obviously about homosexuality as is "Piccadilly Palare."

I've always interpreted the songs as being about love-shyness than anything overtly homosexual. That's the beauty of Mo1c84rrissey's lyrics: they are vague enough to be open to interpretation, even This Charming Man, which I see as a song about a "man crush" instead of homosexual infatuation.

I always thought that Hand In Glove was about a band's first single

That's certainly the way I interpreted Pretty Girls Make Graves. Sorry I've not brought anything else to the party as it were, I just wanted to voice my agreement.
What's that? You just called me a bastard didn't you!

Pretty girls make graves could be about homosexuality , although it could just as easily be about fear of sex.
A womans just trying to have sex with him telling him to give into lust. but hes not the sort of person who does that ' im not the man u think I am'. She gets bored of trying with him and goes with another man and so hes lost his faith of womanhood. Because he beleives himself to be deep and woman shallow.
I always thought the bit about 'I could have been wild and I could have been free', was about the fact that he was born prudish and shy, which he cant help so its a trick played on him by nature.
lol could be , I duno thats how I always saw it but who knows.

It can be interpreted as either being about homosexuality or heterosexual puppy love (and the way they think they invented it, etc.) Or both. The Smiths were pretty damn brilliant. I think this line is the give-away:
We can go wherever we please
And everything depends upon
How near you stand to me.
And it gives new meaning to the line "the sun shines out of our behinds."
A lot, lot, LOT of Smiths songs alluded to homosexuality. Just look at "Pretty Girls Make Graves:
End of the pier, end of the bay
You tug my arm, and say : "Give in to lust,
Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll
Soon be dust "
Oh, I'm not the man you think I am
I'm not the man you think I am
And Sorrow's native son
He will not rise for anyone
I could have been wild and I could have
Been free
But nature played this trick on me
She wants it now
And she will not wait
But she's too rough
And I'm too delicate
It's as red as the Daily Worker and just as sore!

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I never saw Hand In Glove as a "gay anthem" I think This Charming Man definitely is though, exquisitely gay imo.
She wore bluuuuuuue vel-vet.

Duh! j/k
No, seriously, it along with many other Smiths songs are about homosexuality. Being life-long hetero it doesn't bother me either. Expression should come from everyone. Especially 1354one like Him.
As usual, the protagonist has some kind of apprehension about expressing sexual desire due to some kind of public ridicule. Either it's about man-on-man relations, or some guy that wants a huge woman. Take your pick, but my money is on the former.
Quentin, next time make something that is "Ego-Proof"

Half the Smiths songs are gay anthems in one way or amother, and as a hetero, it doesn't bother me one bit. The quality of the music is all that matters.
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The lyrics suggest that it is. I love the 'stay on my arm you little charmer' line, I think it is really sweet.
"Did he show you his acheulean handaxe?"