The Village People's Randy Jon Speaks On Gay Marriage

Contents:

• THE GAY ECSTASY OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE
• WE ARE NOT A GAY ACT, VILLAGE PEOPLE SAY (WH A STRAIGHT FACE)
• LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’
• THE VILLAGE PEOPLE’S RANDY JON SPEAKS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY UPL AT HOME THE VILLAG
• VILLAGE PEOPLE GIV TMP OK TO PLAY GAY ANTHEMS 'YMCA,' 'MACHO MAN' AT RALLI
• IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, YOU’RE FUCKG GAYAXCXTRACK 6 ON DEFENRS OF THE HATE THE JOKE OF THIS SONG IS THAT, FOR ALL OF THE NOCUO THGS ANAL CUNT HAS LLED GAY… READ MORE 20011 VIEWER6.9K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSIF YOU DON’T LIKE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, YOU’RE FUCKG GAY LYRICS[DM TRO][VERSE 1]JACQU MORALI WROTE THE HEAVIT MIC EVERGLENN HUGH HAD A EPER VOICE THAN WILL OM MORTICIANHE WORE CHAS BEFORE SLAYER AND VENOMJACQU MORALI WAS PORTRAYED BY STEVE GUTTENBERG[CHOS]IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK JEFF OLSON WAS BETTER WBOY - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK RAY SIMPSON WAS A BETTER P - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK Y.M.C.A. WAS THEIR BT SONG - YOU'RE FUCKG GAY[VERSE 2]ALL ATH METAL SONGS WERE RIPPED OFF OM VILLAGE PEOPLE"EVIL DEAD" BY DEATH IS ACTUALLY "LIBERATN" OM THE VILLAGE PEOPLEWILL RAHMER LOOKS LIKE HE SHOULD BE THE VILLAGE PEOPLENO, MORBID FLORIST WASN'T A REFERENCE TO WILL RAHMER[CHOS]IF YOU THK DEATH WERE GOOD AFTER THEIR MOS - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK RAPE IS WRONG - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK THE HOLOT WASN'T FUNNY - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK OF HELLHAMMER AS THE DMMER OF MAYHEM - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[OUTRO]Y-O-U-R-E-G-A-Y, YOU'RE GAY!EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

THE GAY ECSTASY OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

WE ARE NOT A GAY ACT, VILLAGE PEOPLE SAY (WH A STRAIGHT FACE)

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

However, be this memory real or simulacm, strik me as hilar given what the Village People are universally known for: tongue--cheek gay nuendo, sparsely vered by a flimsy veneer of hyper-macho drag. But they’re not ‘jt’ gay.

LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’

They’re almost overtly (homo)sexual.

However the service’s tomatic n-on feature clearly disagreed and cid that, when Cowley’s sensual, gay bathhoe-ready rhythms end, ‘Macho Man’ would be a great follow-up.

THE VILLAGE PEOPLE’S RANDY JON SPEAKS ON GAY MARRIAGE

And I was fascated by the empowerment I felt om Village People, the tle track on their eponymo but album, and an unambiguo ll for gay liberatn that sounds more ak to a prott chant than a chart topper.

Said first three albums (and pecially the first two) rry a surprisgly polil energy; the more popular tracks, such as the eponymo Macho Man, might be vacuo but others – take I Am What I Am, a fiant chant that suggts exactly what you’d expect to suggt – envisn a world which male bodi uld be ee to e together whout Francis was one of the gay mecs the Village People celebrated on their visnary but album (Cred: Alamy)As far as evokg same-sex love go, there was a precent – om dis’s genis, queered sexual posivy was the life blood of the genre, as Peter Shapiro intifi Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Dis. “As the cultural adjunct of the gay pri movement, dis was the embodiment of the pleasure-is-polics ethos of a new generatn of gay culture, a generatn fed up wh police raids, dranian laws and the darkns of the closet, ” he wr.

GAY UPL AT HOME THE VILLAG

That said, the genre’s lyrics tend to chew more overt polil statements – and the few that did rry an unambiguo msage of gay liberatn didn’t chart well. I thk to myself that gay people have no group, nobody to personalise the gay people, you know?

– Jacqu MoraliIn her dis chronicle Hot Stuff: Dis and the Remakg of Amerin Culture, Alice Echols rells a 1978 Rollg Stone article which Jacqu Morali – the French producer who, alongsi Henri Bolelo and eventual group lear Victor Willis, created the Village People – put forward a manifto of gay visibily: “Morali outed himself, and emphasised that as a homosexual he was mted to endg the cultural visibily of gay men. ‘I thk to myself that gay people have no group, ’ he said, ‘nobody to personalise the gay people, you know?

The album is prised of paeans to the Uned Stat’ gay unrbelly, focg on four plac: San Francis, Hollywood, Fire Island and Greenwich Village. The batn of lol alone should immediately tip you off as to who Village People was beg sold to, as any gay man the late 70s would regnise this as a lndry list of US gay mecs.

VILLAGE PEOPLE GIV TMP OK TO PLAY GAY ANTHEMS 'YMCA,' 'MACHO MAN' AT RALLI

It knowgly evok the sex-as-polics attu of gay liberatn (“Love the way I please / don’t put no chas on me”), and Victor Willis’ cry of “leather, leather, leather baby” speaks to the era’s emergent gay macho archetype. The song also evok the great gay urban migratn of the 1970s, durg which gays and lbians across the US moved to urban centr – San Francis, Los Angel, New York Cy – en masse.

This theme is seamlsly rried over to In Hollywood (Everybody is a Star), which envisns Hollywood as a rtoonish hub of opulence, universal succs and stardom – an aspiratnal portra for a historilly margalised their reer went on, the Village People creasgly urted the mastream, cludg wh 1980 film Can’t Stop the Mic (Cred: Alamy)For somethg unabashedly homosexual you need only turn to Fire Island, named after the most inic gay hotspot the world, a th strip of land some 50 off the ast of New York Cy, revered for s hookup spots and iastic danc. And then we e to the tular track Village People, the most emphatilly polil of them all; a percsive chant that lls upon the ‘Village people’, th for gay men, to “take our place the Sun”: “To be ee, ” Village People clare, “We mt be / all for one.

The song envisns a new age of sexual eedom, advotg for uny agast the homophobia that was rigur US society the late 70s.

IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, YOU’RE FUCKG GAYAXCXTRACK 6 ON DEFENRS OF THE HATE THE JOKE OF THIS SONG IS THAT, FOR ALL OF THE NOCUO THGS ANAL CUNT HAS LLED GAY… READ MORE 20011 VIEWER6.9K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSIF YOU DON’T LIKE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, YOU’RE FUCKG GAY LYRICS[DM TRO][VERSE 1]JACQU MORALI WROTE THE HEAVIT MIC EVERGLENN HUGH HAD A EPER VOICE THAN WILL OM MORTICIANHE WORE CHAS BEFORE SLAYER AND VENOMJACQU MORALI WAS PORTRAYED BY STEVE GUTTENBERG[CHOS]IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK JEFF OLSON WAS BETTER WBOY - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK RAY SIMPSON WAS A BETTER P - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK Y.M.C.A. WAS THEIR BT SONG - YOU'RE FUCKG GAY[VERSE 2]ALL ATH METAL SONGS WERE RIPPED OFF OM VILLAGE PEOPLE"EVIL DEAD" BY DEATH IS ACTUALLY "LIBERATN" OM THE VILLAGE PEOPLEWILL RAHMER LOOKS LIKE HE SHOULD BE THE VILLAGE PEOPLENO, MORBID FLORIST WASN'T A REFERENCE TO WILL RAHMER[CHOS]IF YOU THK DEATH WERE GOOD AFTER THEIR MOS - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK RAPE IS WRONG - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK THE HOLOT WASN'T FUNNY - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYIF YOU THK OF HELLHAMMER AS THE DMMER OF MAYHEM - YOU'RE FUCKG GAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[OUTRO]Y-O-U-R-E-G-A-Y, YOU'RE GAY!EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Empowerg and queer-foced as their early lyrics may have been, the msage quickly shifted once mastream succs was urted and emed to be more profable than their ial target group of gay dis-goers. And so would be haggraphic to enshre them as gay polil pneers, Jacqu Morali’s manifto for gay cultural visibily or otherwise. But for a gay man, is impossible, too, not to have a visceral rponse to Village People and s – somewhat superficial but credibly energisg – ll for gay liberatn, such unambiguo terms.

Certaly, if the tune mak me ecstatic, I n’t beg to thk of what would be like for a guy 1979, newly disverg his gayns and hearg for the first time a pulsatg New York nightclub. After 35 years of beltg out YMCA and In the Navy, the Village People are still bothered by one qutn: what’s this gay subtext that people keep mentng? They have been scribed as “the first gay superstar group”.

One of the origal members was disvered dancg a Native Amerin head-drs a gay nightclub and several others answered a job advert readg: “Macho typ wanted. He was son Jonathan said the e was pancreatic Belolo had been a mic producer and executive Moroc and France 1977 when one night he and the poser Jacqu Morali, his bs partner, were at the Anvil, an after-hours gay nightclub the Wt Village of Manhattan. Morali, who was gay, ially foced on gay listeners as the group’s re dience.