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HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!
"Even though the band was heterosexual, this beme a gay anthem, at least Ameri, thanks to lyrics like "Lucy looks sweet 'e he drs like a queen. The performers were not necsarily gay, but they fely blurred genr rol.
Mott played up the Glam image to the hilt, enlistg former Spooky Tooth guarist Luther Grosvenor to play wh them and havg wear outrageo platform sho and go by the name Ariel Benr - "Benr" beg Brish slang for homosexual. Some of the lyrics seem, shall we say, homoerotic, particularly at the end when the sger exhorts a male member of the dience to e closer to him. I don't thk 's specifilly wrten as a gay anthem, though I suppose uld be tepreted as such I gus.
On an even more earthbound level, they are the post 60's kids, the glter generatn, the "homo superrs". That wks at gay them, but as always wh Bowie, has both ways (no pun tend). The da improv by Ian Hunter has nothg to do wh gay them, but they didn't md the mercial implitns.