Nile Rodgers says Diana Ross "didn’t unrstand that 'I’m Comg Out' was a gay thg"

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NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’

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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.

DIANA ROSS ‘DIDN’T UNRSTAND THAT “I’M COMG OUT” WAS A GAY THG’, SAYS NILE RODGERS

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” “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.

Sign up to Rois O’Connor’s ee weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the si track on all thgs micGet our Now Hear This email for eeMic producer Nile Rodgers has said that Diana Ross “didn’t unrstand” that her h 1980 song “I’m Comg Out” ”was a gay thg”. ”Ross loved the song, Rodgers said, addg: ”she didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg - that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet’. ”“I’m Comg Out” peaked at No5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, but has endured as an anthem the gay 1980, Ross has ed the track to open her live performanc.

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We were maybe 23, and I heard Donna Summer sgg Love to Love You Baby and I heard Eddie Kendricks’ Girl You Need a Change of Md, and I saw gay people dancg wh straight people and black people and whe people and Asian people and Lato people, and I saw they were dog this dance lled the Htle and everybody seemed to know how to do . The dis-funk legend revealed that he and his Chic bandmate Bernard Edwards had wrten the song, a long-celebrated gay pri anthem, as a statement of empowerment for the often margalized LGTBQIA++ muny. Rodgers nfsed that he had been spired to wre the Pri staple after seeg numero Diana Ross impersonators at a Manhattan gay nightclub lled the Gild Grape and realized that the new song would fely strike a chord wh the fans.

So I said, 'No one thks of Diana Ross necsarily on the ontl of this, but [the gay] muny and her [gay] fans love her and idolize her. " Apparently Ross was not aware that "I'm g out" uld be taken as someone announcg their homosexualy. Rodgers admted - "So she may have misnsted the ia when Frankie Crocker told her what 'I'm g out' meant — that she thought we were tryg to imply that she was gay.

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Ross loved the song, nnectg wh the empowerg lyrics, but she “didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet, ’ Rodgers said.

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DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS A 'GAY THG,' ACRDG TO PRODUCER NILE RODGERS

“No one thks of Diana Ross necsarily on the ontl of this, but (the gay) muny and her (gay) fans love her and idolize her.

GUARIST NILE RODGERS WROTE 'I'M COM' OUT' FOR THE GAY MUNY

So she may have misnsted the ia when Frankie Crocker told her what 'I'm g out' meant — that she thought we were tryg to imply that she was gay. Addg, "But [Ross] didn't unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, I'm g out of the closet.

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