By Gregg Shapiro

Contributing writer

With GLBT History Month winding down, there’s no need for your ears to lose their gayness. There are plenty of CDs out there for you to enjoy the whole, queer year round.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to spit in Condi’s eye after you listen to “Everything Bad & Beautiful” (Breaking Records), the latest live recording from queer comic genius Sandra Bernhard. Bernhard’s blend of the personal (her daughter Cicely and her life partner Sara, a Dylan encounter, her Michigan childhood, Thanksgiving with Marianne Faithfull) and the political (riffs on the Kerrys, Lynn Cheney, the “tube top-wearing, taquito munching, beer and tequila swizzling, Texas longhorn hooking” Bush twins, and their mother Laura, for whom she reserves her most cutting rage) is at its creative peak on this recording.

Like the dB’s and R.E.M., The Bongos, led by queer front man Richard Barone, were at the forefront of the college radio explosion. Back in the 1990s, when record label Razor & Tie briefly established itself as a cutting edge reissues label, they reissued The Bongos’ full-length discs and EP, but they all went rapidly out of print. “Drums Along the Hudson” (Cooking Vinyl), the Hoboken trendsetters’ debut album, has been newly reissued in an expanded edition that includes several live tracks and a new recording of the band’s classic track “The Bulrushes” as a collaboration with Moby now called “Bulrushes 2007.”

On “The Hair, The TV, The Baby & The Band” (Merge), the fourth studio album in more than 10 years by Imperial Teen, the quartet, featuring out musicians and vocalists Will Schwartz and Roddy Bottum, haven’t lost the spirit of edgy frolic that made their previous efforts so enjoyable. Over time, Imperial Teen has perfected its sound, which is immediately recognizable on tracks such as “Do It Better,” “Shim Sham,” “Room With A View,” “Sweet Potato” and “21st Century.”

One of the most original and exciting voices to emerge on the LGBT music is seen is trans musician Namoli Brennet. Beginning with 2002’s “Boy in a Dress” and continuing with each successive release, Brennet has established herself as a refreshing singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. “Singer Shine Your Light” (namolibrennet.com) is no exception, from the commercially appealing “California” through the acoustic blues of “Seven Times,” the bluegrass tears of “The Crying Wheel” and the radiant title tune.

Women’s music legend Tret Fure continues to turn out marvelous albums, her latest being “True Compass” (Tomboy Girl). Who else could have written a love song such as “Look What Love Has Given Me”? It’s a song that is at once personal and universal in its affectionate expression of happiness. Fure keeps it coming in the jazzy flourishes of the title track, the acoustic twang of “Six Beers,” the heartache of “32 Years,” the political voice of “Try” and the rhythmic “Leap of Faith.”

The amazing Garrison Starr has returned with “The Girl That Killed September (Media Creature), her most adventurous disc to date, as evidenced in “Understood, “40 Days,” “Stay Home Tonight” and “Spectacle,” to mention a few.

The Klezmatics aren’t the only Klezmer band with connections to the queer community. Led by Eve Sicular of Isle of Klezbos, Metropolitan Klezmer has its own out and proud quotient, which gathered together for the live “Traveling Show” (Rhythm Media) recording.

Increasingly popular young queer acoustic duo Nervous But Excited does its generation proud on its disc “Once More…With Feeling” (Pleasantly Aggressive).

Earlier this year, the remarkable Erin McKeown released the sinsational “Sing You Sinners,” a collection of her interpretation of modern standards. Recorded around the same time as the release of the disc at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan, “Lafayette” (Signature Sounds) is an intimate live disc in which McKeown also reaches into her own back catalog to create a marvelous set that showcases her at her finest. If you’ve never seen her live, don’t rely on this disc to do the trick. You owe it to yourself to have the experience firsthand.

Billed as “stories and observations” by Mirah and Spectratone International, “Share This Place” (K) is a heady project that has something to do with insects (see the CD booklet cover photo). But don’t bug out! This is fascinating and hypnotic Gogol Bordello-style music, in spite of (or maybe due to) titles such as “Gestation of the Sacred Beetle,” “Emergence of the Primary Larva,” “Love Song of the Fly,” as well as “Luminescence,” “Following the Sun” and especially “My Lord Who Hums.”