GayCultureLand: Chic (Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards)

Contents:

• NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
• DIANA ROSS ‘DIDN’T UNRSTAND THAT “I’M COMG OUT” WAS A GAY THG’, SAYS NILE RODGERS
• GUARIST NILE RODGERS WROTE 'I'M COM' OUT' FOR THE GAY MUNY
•  NILE RODGERS SAYS HE LIED TO DIANA ROSS ABOUT MEANG OF IM G OUT HER REER GAY LGBTQ
• NILE RODGERS SAYS DIANA ROSS “DIDN’T UNRSTAND THAT ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS A GAY THG”
• DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS A 'GAY THG,' ACRDG TO PRODUCER NILE RODGERS
• GUARIST NILE RODGERS WROTE 'I'M COM' OUT' FOR THE GAY MUNY

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

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.

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

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.

GUARIST NILE RODGERS WROTE 'I'M COM' OUT' FOR THE GAY 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. Diana is fely not homophobic, that's for sure.

 NILE RODGERS SAYS HE LIED TO DIANA ROSS ABOUT MEANG OF IM G OUT HER REER GAY LGBTQ

Nile Rodgers has said that Diana Ross “didn’t unrstand” that her 1980 h ‘I’m Comg Out’ “was a gay thg. 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. That's when he realized the sger had a huge gay fan Ross wh Diana Ross drag queen impersonators on Jan.

“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. 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.

" Ross may have not known then but she fully embraced the song and what meant to the LGBTQ muny, who celebrate her as a gay in. ' and 'One night a dis on the outskirts of Fris, I was cisg…' The word 'cisg' those days was sort of taboo bee maly the people who cised were gay people, hardre. It pecially ronat wh the gay populatn, sce the ia of creatg your fay among your gay brothers and sisters and alli is what kept many of alive durg the years.

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

“He is not gay, whatever he may have blurted out 1972, ” wrote terviewer Kurt Lor, “nor was he ever a transvte, thank you. ”A generatn of gay fans had felt liberated by Bowie’s claim to be bisexual a earlier. Released as a sgle 1977, had been banned by the BBC for s ‘sexual ntent’: allns to cross-drsg and gay sex.

’ In the words of Bowie expert Chris O’Leary, he had “turned a gay-themed le to one that Vce Neil uld’ve wrten” songwrer Peter Godw had been fluenced by Bowie fan and was nfed at the chang ma to his lyrics. “It was a satire on androgyny, sexual ambivalence, posturg, pretendg to be gay or whatever, ” says Godw. Sexualy - Gay or Nay.

Correct our wiki/b - is he not gay or straight or of different herage? “And wasn’t a Black club, wasn’t a gay club, wasn’t a Lat club, wasn’t an Asian club.

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

Is Nile Rodgers Gay? We did not fd any reports that suggted that Nile Rodgers is homosexual.

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

He and Edwards then put together the top-five h, which would bee an unofficial anthem of gay pri. WINGS:[quote]In recent years, the scene where Rogers says a lovgly emotnal goodbye to Arlen Wgs has been excerpted a lot as an early Hollywood gay kiss, but that’s not que what’s gog on if you look at this scene closely. Defely gay Anonymoreply 1Augt 4, 2016 6:26 PM.