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Contents:
- NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- THREAD: DIANA ROSS 'DIDN'T UNRSTAND' WHY 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS A GAY ANTHEM
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
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"I'm Comg Out, " om Diana Ross's Diana album, is perhaps the apex of gay anthems. "She didn't unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, 'I'm g out of the closet, '" said Rodgers.
"Rodgers said he ultimately nvced Ross to sg the track, argug would make the perfect opener for an entertaer, addn to tablishg her as one of the greatt gay ins. “She didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg, ” Rodgers says, “that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet. '” Ross later embraced the song, and her gay inhood.
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Rodgers got the ia for "I'm Comg Out" when he went to a gay club New York Cy.
"Comg Out" means g out of the closet and beg openly Rodgers relled to the Mail on Sunday's Event magaze 2013 that a DJ warned Diana Ross that this song was gog to her reer bee people would thk she was gay. ' We had wrten bee of her gay followg, but I said she should e as her 'g-out' song – to start her gigs – and she has ever sce.
THREAD: DIANA ROSS 'DIDN'T UNRSTAND' WHY 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS A GAY ANTHEM
But Rodgers and Edwards helped make that superstar she brighter than ever: Ross’ classic “Diana” album — released 40 years ago on May 22, 1980 — went on to bee the bt-sellg LP of her reer wh hs such as “Upsi Down” and the gay anthem “I’m Comg Out.
” “But she didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet, ’ ” says Rodgers. “He thought that that would be Diana sayg that she was gay, ” says Rodgers.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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