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Madonna Announces Confessions II Pride Edition Vinyl
June 1st — the first day of Pride Month — and Madonna marks the occasion with a limited-edition clear vinyl pressing of Confessions II.
The Pride Limited Edition is a collector’s item built with care. Housed in an exclusive double-sided photographic sleeve — that now-iconic image of Madonna prowling on a hot-pink floor — it includes a printed inner sleeve featuring the non-stop mix and a full-size poster. Pre-orders are live now, shipping the week of July 3rd.
Across two sides, the 12-track sequence unfolds: I Feel So Free, Good for the Soul, One Step Away, Bring Your Love, Danceteria and Read My Lips on Side 1; Everything, Love Without Words, Bizarre, School, Fragile and the closing My Sins Are My Savior on Side 2.
The timing is no coincidence. To understand why a Madonna Pride release carries a particular resonance, you have to go back decades — long before Pride became a fixture on the marketing calendar. In the early 1980s, when fear, stigma, and government neglect allowed the AIDS epidemic to spiral, Madonna emerged as one of the first global superstars to speak openly about HIV, pay tribute to friends lost, raise funds, and challenge the silence surrounding the crisis. She educated fans about AIDS and safe sex at a time when schools, the media, and religious institutions stayed far away from the topic — a move that could easily have ended a showbiz career.
Among those she lost were her roommate Martin Burgoyne and the legendary artist Keith Haring. Her mentor Christopher Flynn, diagnosed with AIDS in the late 1980s, joined her for a benefit dance marathon in New York in 1989; he died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. She also wrote In This Life on Erotica as a tribute to friends who had died from the disease.
At the 2019 GLAAD Media Awards, accepting the Advocate for Change Award, she said: “Fighting for all marginalized people was a duty and an honor I could not turn my back on, nor will I ever.”
That history is the backdrop against which every Pride release from Madonna lands — this one included.
