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- THE TRIUMPHANT QUEER LEGACY OF GLORIA GAYNOR’S ‘I WILL SURVIVE’
- GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 20, 1979: GLORIA GAYNOR’S GAY ANTHEM “I WILL SURVIVE” RELEASED – FIVE FACTS YOU DIDN’T KNOW
- THE STORY OF... 'I WILL SURVIVE' BY GLORIA GAYNOR
- BT GAY ANTHEM: 'I WILL SURVIVE' OR 'TE COLORS'? | THE TYLT
- I WILL SURVIVE SGER WANTS TO ‘LEAD GAYS TO CHRIST’
THE TRIUMPHANT QUEER LEGACY OF GLORIA GAYNOR’S ‘I WILL SURVIVE’
Black Mic Month and Pri Month celebratns lli Nile Forr’s say about Gloria Gaynor’s dis h, “I Will Survive.” Though the spirg dance song was released the 70’s, the sgle… * i will survive gay anthem *
FlashbackWhile she didn’t tend for the song to be an LGBTQ anthem, s lyrics were an spiratn amid the AIDS crisis and homophobiaGloria Gaynor, London, 1975. The guar riff starts as Gaynor is forced to nont her terrible ex — “And so you’re back/From outer space” — as if ’s givg her momentum to send him away and live a better life whout late 1978, Gloria Gaynor released “I Will Survive” as a B-si dis track, not knowg the song would soon bee the five sgle of her reer.
GAY HISTORY – JANUARY 20, 1979: GLORIA GAYNOR’S GAY ANTHEM “I WILL SURVIVE” RELEASED – FIVE FACTS YOU DIDN’T KNOW
Rerd after a trmatic perd the sger's life, Gloria Gaynor's dis h quickly found s te dience: LGBT muni, survivors of domtic vlence and others phed asi by society. * i will survive gay anthem *
She was still wearg a back brace when she rerd “I Will Survive” after beg picked up aga by moment Gaynor was livg when she rerd “I Will Survive” no doubt ntributed to the song’s energetic msage of survival.
“[Fekaris and Perren] said, ‘We thk you’re the one that we’ve been wag for to rerd this song that we wrote a uple of years ago, ’” Gaynor explaed a 2013 terview wh Audible. ” Though the spirg dance song was released the 70’s, the sgle rurfaced the 90’s as LGBTQ alt wh the AIDS crisis and moment Gaynor was livg when she rerd “I Will Survive” — rejectn om the mic dtry as a talented Black woman, the abily to rely on her body for the first time — no doubt ntributed to the song’s energetic msage of survival. As Gaynor has spent most of her reer affirmg, survival is the first step to eedom, pennce, and happs — and who don’t want to believe the are possible?
THE STORY OF... 'I WILL SURVIVE' BY GLORIA GAYNOR
On January 20, 1979 Gloria Gaynor’s rerdg of I Will Survive was released and started s way up the mic charts.”I Will Survive” beme one of the qutsential anthems for the gay Pri that year and has held strong as a favore of gay men * i will survive gay anthem *
Fd more at Gloria Gaynor has said she's pretty sure her signature song, the 1978 dis smash "I Will Survive, " was created jt for her.
Shortly after Polydor told her she was beg dropped, Gaynor slipped onstage durg a performance at New York's Bean Theatre. In fact, he was pretty sure he had a eback h for Gaynor: a song that a South Ain girl group had recently done well wh, lled "Substute. "They said, 'We thk you're the one that we've been wag for to rerd this song that we wrote a uple of years ago, ' " Gaynor explaed.
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I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor song meang, lyric terpretatn, vio and chart posn * i will survive gay anthem *
Dmmer Jam Gadson, who his reer has backed up Marv Gaye and Bill Whers and been featured on hundreds of h rerds, was part of the stud band put together for the ssn.
I WILL SURVIVE SGER WANTS TO ‘LEAD GAYS TO CHRIST’
Gloria Gaynor's h I Will Survive, released 1978 and a #1 h 1979, is dramatic om the get-go -- those openg words of At first I was aaid, I was petrified set up the relentls statement of perseverance that follows. Like so many relatable pop songs, I Will Survive is full of raw emotn, and much of is directed at a specific person who has done the sger wrong. But this isn't a song of victimhood or heartbreak -- far om . * i will survive gay anthem *
Karen Tongson, a profsor at the Universy of Southern California who often lectur on pop culture, says she remembers first hearg the song the 1990s through s ver versns, then learng the history behd Gaynor's origal. Beyond gay muni, "I Will Survive" has bee a global anthem for those who have felt polilly opprsed, physilly challenged or otherwise phed to society's margs.
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Cdy Southworth heads the Natnal Network to End Domtic Vlence, where Gaynor is an advote; she remembers when the sger appeared at the anizatn's global nference 2012. “I Will Survive” beme one of the qutsential anthems for the Gay Pri that year and has held strong as a favore of gay men everywhere.
Gaynor also rerd the song at a higher vol register than she normally sgs and the track wasn’t overproduced like her earlier hs. It not only serv as a break-up anthem for women that ro up strength and power to move on om a relatnship, but as the qutsential empowerment song the gay muny to those who leave them behd, and even to Gaynor herself.
Jt before rerdg “I Will Survive, ” Gaynor spent six months the hospal om a back jury and the song served as her own source of motivatn to survive and overe the jury.
Gloria Gaynor, the Amerin sger whose h I Will Survive is seen as a gay anthem, told Rad 4 this morng that gay people should embrace Christ and that her stat as a gay in allows her to lead them to repeatedly refed to say whether or not she thks homosexualy is wrong. Many rears have ntacted to pla about her Gaynor, a mted Christian, is currently on a tour of the UK. * i will survive gay anthem *
Fekaris also wrote other songs for Gloria Gaynor, but this was his only huge succs as a also wrote dis favour 'Boogie Fever' by The Sylvers and 'Shake Your Groove Thg' by Peach & Herb. They agreed that the next diva that found them would get the end up beg Gloria Gaynor, whose rerd pany lled Perren lookg for productn on a song lled 'Substute', a song origally by the Righteo Brothers.
Although everyone who worked on the song knew was superr to the A-si, the print of Gaynor's rerd pany specifilly wanted 'Substute', and released as the A-si as planned. Among her imprsive talogue of dance-pop gems, “All The Lovers” marked the first time the sger seemed to directly addrs her gay fanbase, along wh the acpanyg vio that featur a mass of upl of all strip makg out around her. From the song’s openg synths and Jimmy Somerville’s unmistakable falsetto, “Smalltown Boy” marked a historic moment pop mic, pecially g om an openly gay group durg the peak of the AIDS crisis.
Co-wrten by Tom Robson (who gave “Glad To Be Gay”), ’s one of the rare LGBTQ songs that chews the dancefloor for a more tenr moment.