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- HE GAVE ONE OF THE GREAT PERFORMANC OF THE 1970S. NOBODY KNEW HE WAS GAY.
- ASHFORD & SIMPSON....ELRGAYS, PLEASE MAKE MAKE SENSE!
- NICK IS GAY AND WHY KNOWG THIS IS ESSENTIAL TO READG THE GREAT GATSBYDAVID GIUNTA·FOLLOWPUBLISHED CARETHKCREATE·10 M READ·JUL 10, 2019--15SHARETRY REREADG THE GREAT GATSBY THROUGH A NEW LENS. IT’S A CRAZY JOURNEY.WHO IS THE GREAT GATSBY REALLY ABOUT? SPOILER: IT’S REALLY ABOUT NICK.I’VE BEEN TEACHG THE GREAT GATSBY FOR WELL OVER A AND I AM TELLG YOU THAT THE NOVEL IS NOT ABOUT GATSBY. IT IS ABOUT NICK. AND, I WILL BE HAPPY TO ARGUE THE TOPIC WH ANYONE.HOW I ME TO THIS TERMATN NCERNS THE READG OF THE GREAT GATSBY. THE TLE OF THE STORY, THE GREAT GATSBY, SUGGTS THAT THE GATSBY IS SIAR TO A MAGICIAN. GATSBY DO REMBLE A MAGICIAN, BUT F. STT FZGERALD IS THE REAL ILLNIST. HIS MAGIC IS SUBTLY KNTED THROUGHOUT HIS WORDS. THE GREAT GATSBY IS TLY A DYNAMIC NOVEL. IT NSTANTLY CHANG BASED ON THE PARTICULAR LENS THE REAR IS G WHEN READG. TO MONSTRATE THIS ASPECT OF THE NOVEL, I WILL REFER TO A LSON I TEACH MY SENRS WHEN EXAMG THE GREAT GATSBY. I LIKE TO LL THE “LEVER LSON,” AND WILL SHOW YOU THAT NOVEL IS NOT ALL THAT APPEARS.HI ALL. BEFORE I GET TO THE LEVER LSON, YOU N CLICK HERE TO READ MY NEXT ARTICLE ABOUT GATSBY AND PLAY THE GATSBY VIO GAME.THE LEVER-LSON
HE GAVE ONE OF THE GREAT PERFORMANC OF THE 1970S. NOBODY KNEW HE WAS GAY.
The list of artists who rerd or sampled Ashford and Simpson’s mic is imprsive; Ray Charl, who had a eback of sorts 1966 wh the cidly secular, yet sanctified, “Let’s Go Get Stoned”; the rerdg duo of Tammi Terrell and Marv Gaye, who served as m for the young Ashford and Simpson; Diana Ross, whose ft sis as a solo artist where arguably wrten by Ashford and Simpson; Dis legend Sylvter, who rerd the duo’s “Over and Over” on his solo but 1977; Chaka Khan, whose signature tune “I’m Every Women” is an Ashford and Simpson classic; Teddy Penrgrass who rerd “Is It Still Good To Ya”; Cheryl Lynn, who match the duo’s own performance of “Believe Me”; Aretha Frankl who vered several of their tracks; The Dynamic Superrs, whose out gay lead sger Tony Washgton, was clearly fluenced by Ashford’s own soarg falsetto (a lost art today’s mil environment); the late Amy Wehoe; and even Mary J. Wfield always kept his private life private, part, bee he was a gay, Ain-Amerin man workg a time when rol for black actors were limed, and when homophobia ran high. He’s one of the great, unrrated gay actors of our time.
Elrgays, do tell! Never really got gay vib om Anonymoreply 3November 25, 2020 12:41 AM.
LOLR3, how long has your gaydar been broken? R3 has the worst gaydar I have ever been around. As a child, before I had heard the word “gay, ” I knew what Miss Thang was.
ASHFORD & SIMPSON....ELRGAYS, PLEASE MAKE MAKE SENSE!
No, I'm wh R3, he never stck me as gay then and he don't now eher. He giv off a vibe that’s not exactly gay but n be terpreted as gay. Their songs were spun to hs by, among others, Aretha Frankl, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Marv Gaye, Chaka Khan, Whney Hoton and Ashford & Simpson themselv – cludg the ’80s h “Solid As a Rock.
” Motown quickly signed them to wre for Ross, Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and the relatnship wh that label lasted seven years.
Ashford, who rerd and performed profsnally wh his wife of 30+ years, Valerie Simpson, is bt known for wrg the 1984 h songs “Solid (As A Rock)” and 1967’s “A’t No Mounta High Enough” rerd by Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
NICK IS GAY AND WHY KNOWG THIS IS ESSENTIAL TO READG THE GREAT GATSBYDAVID GIUNTA·FOLLOWPUBLISHED CARETHKCREATE·10 M READ·JUL 10, 2019--15SHARETRY REREADG THE GREAT GATSBY THROUGH A NEW LENS. IT’S A CRAZY JOURNEY.WHO IS THE GREAT GATSBY REALLY ABOUT? SPOILER: IT’S REALLY ABOUT NICK.I’VE BEEN TEACHG THE GREAT GATSBY FOR WELL OVER A AND I AM TELLG YOU THAT THE NOVEL IS NOT ABOUT GATSBY. IT IS ABOUT NICK. AND, I WILL BE HAPPY TO ARGUE THE TOPIC WH ANYONE.HOW I ME TO THIS TERMATN NCERNS THE READG OF THE GREAT GATSBY. THE TLE OF THE STORY, THE GREAT GATSBY, SUGGTS THAT THE GATSBY IS SIAR TO A MAGICIAN. GATSBY DO REMBLE A MAGICIAN, BUT F. STT FZGERALD IS THE REAL ILLNIST. HIS MAGIC IS SUBTLY KNTED THROUGHOUT HIS WORDS. THE GREAT GATSBY IS TLY A DYNAMIC NOVEL. IT NSTANTLY CHANG BASED ON THE PARTICULAR LENS THE REAR IS G WHEN READG. TO MONSTRATE THIS ASPECT OF THE NOVEL, I WILL REFER TO A LSON I TEACH MY SENRS WHEN EXAMG THE GREAT GATSBY. I LIKE TO LL THE “LEVER LSON,” AND WILL SHOW YOU THAT NOVEL IS NOT ALL THAT APPEARS.HI ALL. BEFORE I GET TO THE LEVER LSON, YOU N CLICK HERE TO READ MY NEXT ARTICLE ABOUT GATSBY AND PLAY THE GATSBY VIO GAME.THE LEVER-LSON
Ashford and Simpson never reached the heights of fame as the superstars who rerd their mil posns, such as Diana Ross, Chaka Khan and Marv Gaye. Nearly 35 years before the release of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, a Gospel sger turned Dis star, rerd a song bearg the same tle, which beme one of the era’s most important Gay anthems. “Y I’m gay/ta’t a flt ‘tis a fact/I was born this way”—should not be surprisg.
Bean was not alone; the mid-1970s the Motown roster also clud the vol group the Dynamic Superrs, whose lead sger, the late Tony Washgton, was an out and flamboyant homosexual. Whenever the subject of Black mic and homosexualy is broached, the figure of Sylvter, the groundbreakg Dis and Dance artist, is immediately relled. Sylvter’s 1977 solo but Over and Over was produced by Harvey Fuqua, foundg member of the doo-wop group the Moonglows and one-time Motown rerd executive, who was rponsible for brgg Marv Gaye to the label.
Ashford and Simpson, of urse, were the well known song-wrg duo behd the great Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell rerdgs of the late 1960s; they were also rponsible for the songwrg and productn on the first two Dynamic Superr rerdgs, their eponymo 1974 but and Pure Pleasure (1975).