'I'm Comg Out' by Diana Ross, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards is a gay anthem, but for a while, the former Suprem star missed the pot. Read here.
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NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
"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.
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.