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Contents:
- DONNA SUMMER DENIED ANTI-GAY REMARKS AND HIV/AIDS STATEMENTS IN 1989 ACT UP LETTER
- LETTER SHOWS DONNA SUMMER DEFENDG HERSELF AGAST ALLEGED ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
- EXCLUSIVE: DONNA SUMMER DENIED MAKG ANTIGAY REMARKS THAT HURT HER CAREER
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- MIC'S GREATT GAY IN: DIANA ROSS OR DONNA SUMMER? | THE TYLT
DONNA SUMMER DENIED ANTI-GAY REMARKS AND HIV/AIDS STATEMENTS IN 1989 ACT UP LETTER
It all seemed to be gog so well for ‘dis diva’ Donna Summer. After eight years of succs as the queen of the dis scene she had moved out of the club circu and was now playg large theatr and arenas. The gay muny had helped build her reer by buyg – by the tckload * donna summer gay *
" Years later, my mother would joke: "I knew you were gay when at 2-years-old you wouldn't stop playg that damn Donna Summer album! The five-time Grammy wner will go down history as a force pop mic and -- we n't fet -- one of the origal, morn day gay Summer's gay in stat is unique for s time.
She had a soulful voice, over-the-top fashn, and an edge that gave her an immediate followg the LGBT muny, pecially among gay men. Back 2008, I terviewed Donna Summer and asked about her gay fans, "I don't know if I would have a reer if hadn't been some ways for the way 'Love to Love You Baby' started off and everybody jumped on . It was really the gay clubs the song took off -- they really embraced that new sound.
LETTER SHOWS DONNA SUMMER DEFENDG HERSELF AGAST ALLEGED ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
Back the 1980s, Donna Summer was protted by gay groups such as ACT UP for her statements attributed to a Village Voice article that AIDS was God's * donna summer gay *
So much so that as the texts poured on my phone wh news that the dis diva passed, the next sentence many of the texts were, "Wasn't she homophobic? Durg her 1983 tour, Donna allegedly -- and I strs allegedly -- told the crowd, "I've seen the evil homosexualy e out of you people... " Well, all gay hell broke lose!
Donna Summer's mic was banned gay clubs.
Sce the very begng of my reer, I have had tremendo support and iendship om many the gay muny. It is a source of great ncern to me that anythg I may have said has st me as homophobic. But some wonred if Donna remaed a fixture the gay muny bee she had to.
EXCLUSIVE: DONNA SUMMER DENIED MAKG ANTIGAY REMARKS THAT HURT HER CAREER
Donna Summer, whose post-'70s reer was promised by antigay remarks she allegedly ma at a 1983 ncert, disputed ever makg the ments, blamg them on an angry journalist, and lamented the impact of AIDS on her close iends, durg a 1989 terview wh The a profile the J... * donna summer gay *
(EXCLUSIVE: Donna Summer Denied Makg Antigay Remarks That Hurt Her Career)Regardls, I was ridiculoly exced to terview Donna Summer 2008 for her first album 17 years, Crayons. When I quired about gay marriage, she answered, "I don't really have an opn on , to tell you the tth.
Not beg gay myself, I don't have the same ame of reference--do you know what I'm sayg?
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Donna Summer died yterday at the age of 63. She held many tl, cludg Dis Queen, Grammy wner, number one chart topper, and of urse, gay in. But as a born-aga Christi... * donna summer gay *
On the other hand, I realized: Donna Summer's mic transcend mors of homophobia and iffy answers on same-sex marriage. For me, her dance anthems are more powerful than mors of homophobia. Wh her danceable mic and glamoro style, Donna Summer beme an stant in for the gay muny durg her 1970s heyday.
So when she allegedly ma a number of relign-spired remarks about the gay muny as well as HIV/AIDS durg a 1983 performance, the "Queen of Dis" faced an immediate backlash. She is said to have also noted, "I've seen the evil homosexualy e out of you people... In , the sger, who died of lung ncer at 63 last month, ni makg the remarks about the gay muny, but whether or not would've been enough to appease those sullen fans at the time was wrten is uncerta.
MIC'S GREATT GAY IN: DIANA ROSS OR DONNA SUMMER? | THE TYLT
Callg the accatns "unjt and unfair, " Summer not the letter addrsed to members of ACT UP, "I did not say God is punishg gays wh AIDS, I did not s wh ill tentns judgement over your liv. I haven't stopped talkg to my iends who are gay, nor have I ever chosen my iends by their sexual preferenc.
"As the POZ blog not, the letter arrived at ACT UP offic when the anizatn's members began prottg at var Summer performanc, cludg a Boston Gay Pri event 1989.