Sir Christopher Saint Releases Debut Empowering Anthem

Sir Christopher Saint is a pop star with a purpose.

Releasing his debut single, “God Made Me Gay,” which is inspired by Saint’s own journey to acceptance, this euphoric pop track is a powerful anthem for anyone who wants to tell their truth and live their authentic selves despite being afraid or conditioned to conform. It is a deeply reflective and honest track telling us we should not adhere to labels.

As a speaker, emerging artist, and human, Saint aims to create a legacy of love using pop music as his platform. His mission is to tell his own love story and share his experience as a queer artist of color.

In addition to “God Made Me Gay,” Saint recently wrote the anthem for McDonald’s first-ever House of Pride campaign and is known for his work as a creative director who has collaborated with celebrities like Kendall and Kylie Jenner and Paris Hilton.

Saint took some time to chat more about the new track and his career with OFM.

How exciting is it for you to release your debut single, “God Made Me Gay,” out into the world?
I am so excited! I have been an independent music artist for almost a decade now through iterations and different artist expressions, but this is my first artist project that I would say is my flagpole. I am excited to celebrate my truth in this song.

Can you tell us more about the song’s concept and inspiration?
Yes, totally. I was actually the first artist to perform on the City of West Hollywood stage at L.A. Pride. It was a brand-new stage that was in the middle of Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. That was in 2019, and I had this amazing 30-foot electronic screen behind me that said, “God Loves All of Us.” I thought that was a cool message to bring to Pride, and “God Made Me Gay,” I feel like it is a follow up in some ways to “Born This Way.” I love when she says, ‘I’m beautiful in my way, cause God makes no mistakes,’ and I feel on my journey of self-love, personal transformation, and personal success, I have had to reach for this truth within me. That I am perfect.

I say in the song, ‘I’m an angel with a purpose, ‘cuz heaven made me perfect,’ and I think that is the message that people need to know. I feel like with the queer community, we are really fractured from our spiritual identities and who we are. People mischaracterize us and say that we are mistakes. I want to affirm the exact opposite. That God made me gay. I was created this way and who I love is not a mistake. It is intentional to the person that I am in this world.

How has “God Made Me Gay” been received by audiences?
I have already gotten messages, just from people through Instagram, telling me how this message is one that is needed. I have a lot of friends who, in their own spiritual paths, have either been exiled from their churches or excommunicated. Even in my own family, I have had family members who are part of the queer community be kicked out of their own homes. This is something that happens all over the county, and all over the world. I want to help reconcile and reclaim love and spirituality for this community. Not specific to any religion or any sort of container of what spirituality should be, I say that I am just creating a sensation of love, and that is my mission statement.

You have stated, as a queer person, you received a lot of conditioning and noise from the world telling you that you are not loved for who you are. How did you overcome this, and what advice can you give to others who are struggling with the same situation?
That is a great question. There are moments where I pinch myself and I feel grateful that I am in a place in my life where I feel not only comfortable in my own skin, but I have people around me that celebrate the person that I am. I realize that is a privilege, because so many of my friends do not have parents that support them. So many of my friends do not have a chosen family or friend group that supports them or their ambitions. To me, I see and recognize that, and I want to continually make that a possibility for more people.

I feel like that is one of the most important things that this song can, hopefully, do for people. Connecting something which is so contentious. I grew up Catholic, and I have my own spiritual faith outside of identifying as Catholic. I start the music video with a news clip of what the Pope had just said two months ago and disavowing same-sex marriages. It also has clips from different newscasts talking about how queer rights are being threatened so much. Hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills from state legislature leaders across this country, so I think there is a disconnect.

If you live in a metropolitan area, like New York or L.A., people are like, cool, queer rights and rainbow flags all over Pride Month. Then you think of the reality, and it’s like, that is not the reality many people are facing. I hope we continue to keep having this conversation, and that is why Pride is essential. It isn’t just for corporations to throw rainbows on everything.

Several LGBTQ artists around this time release Pride anthems. How is “God Made Me Gay” different from all the other singles with the message of living your true and authentic self?
Honestly, I wrote the song pretty much in tears because I was referencing back to my five-year-old self. It was a matter of life and death of feeling like I could never be myself. I did not come out until my late 20s, and I think about that. I’m like, oh, how sad that for more than two decades of your life, you were hiding a huge part of who you are, and you were dimming your light. What it really took for me to overcome that, it was me going through my own process of self-loathing and self-hatred. Like you said, absorbing the conditioning of this world, and then rejecting that. Transcending that with a new truth of who I now know and believe that I am.

I think, for me, this single evokes a deeper conversation around the intersection of spirituality and the queer identity. I was really committed to saying it in a very direct way. I think “Born This Way” is very inclusive, and “God Made Me Gay” is my personal experience of saying exactly what that song said but going for a more visceral and more direct statement.

Have you always wanted to be a musical artist?
Yes, I think so. As a kid, like many musicians, they evoke, especially pop stars for me, they evoke a sense of power. Almost like a superhero. For me, Britney Spears and the Spice Girls were superheroes. I think that power, I have performed in front of thousands of people, I always got something from that. It was just so energizing and so inspiring. I have always dreamt of being a music artist and using music as a vessel for activism and change.

You are also known as an entrepreneur. How has this helped with your music?
It has been great! At 25, I started my own digital marketing agency, and I have worked with the Kardashians and Jenners, I currently work with Paris Hilton, just a bunch of celebrities. I actually did a campaign for Lil Nas X’s Super Bowl campaign. To work on the other side of the camera in those capacities as creative director, I feel like I am looking through a window into the industry in ways that I can then sort of harness for my own personal artist projects. Some celebrities have taught me how they can harness their platforms to influence, and those thoughts have opened in my own mind on how I desire to create that and put that into the world as a music artist myself.

In addition to “God Made Me Gay,” you also wrote the anthem for McDonald’s first-ever House of Pride campaign. Can you tell us more about that?
Oh my God, that was such a great project. It premiered the first weekend of Pride Month, and I feel like it’s historical. Obviously, we are seeing a lot of brands and corporations lean into the LGBTQ community, but McDonald’s has never done anything like this. They threw their first-ever virtual Pride festival, which was streamed globally, and the song that I wrote was called “We Got Love.” It is a very anthemic song.

There were other queer artists in it that sang and collaborated, and Laganja Estranja from RuPaul’s Drag Race, not only did she star in it, but she directed it and choreographed the spot. I like to tell people we got to film in the McDonald’s in the City of Industry in Southern California, which is where they shoot all their commercials. It was like gay High School Musical [laughs].

What are some future goals you would like to achieve with your music career?
I got a production deal for my first album in 2018, and I have essentially been collecting songs for about two and a half years. My biggest goal, as an artist, is to be able to speak and share my own version of love. I feel in the queer community, especially as a queer artist of color, to be able to tell my love stories is just my ultimate goal. I don’t really look at it in terms of, I need more streams, or I need money. For me, I want to not only live and love fearlessly, but be able to share that art with others. Communicate that message with others. I am still in my own evolving journey of experiencing and finding love, so to be able to channel that into my music has always been so healing for me.

Before we wrap up, are there any other upcoming projects or anything else you would like to mention our plug?
I am actually going to do a “God Made Me Gay” remix with another queer artist. She is bisexual; she has purple hair; she is fantastic. Your audience should also know about her. Her name is Violet Grae, and we are doing the “God Made Me Gay Anthem Edition.” We had our mutual producer, AJ Afterparty, he is a great DJ here in L.A., remix it and we even kind of restructured the whole song. It is a true remix, which I am very excited about.

Connect with Saint by following him on Instagram or visit his official website. “God Made Me Gay” is available on Spotify and all other streaming platforms.

Photos Courtesy of Ev Alexander