Who Would You Like to Please? or, Why "I Kissed a Girl" Is Not Queer when "I Kissed a Boy" Is

So, in case someone in my friendslist don't know these songs already: "I Kissed a Girl" is a last summer's surprise (?) hit, sung by Katy Perry. The song rode in the wave of being "racy" and "noty". "I Kissed a Boy" is a cover of the same song with mostly re-written lyrics and performed entirely different way by a band Cobra Starship.

I claim that the Cobra Starship version is queer when the original was not. Why? Let me tell you.

First, here are the songs:

I Kissed a Girl:

I Kissed a Boy:

( Let's continue with the lyrics )