Sam Smh’s New Sgle ‘Man I Am’ Is Their Gayt Song Yet - Metro Weekly

Contents:

• VILLAGE PEOPLE GIV TMP OK TO PLAY GAY ANTHEMS 'YMCA,' 'MACHO MAN' AT RALLI
• SAM SMH’S NEW SGLE ‘MAN I AM’ IS THEIR GAYT SONG YET

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

Morali had been studyg the gay scene New York Cy's Greenwich Village, where was popular to drs up as characters for a night of dancg at the dis.

Acrdg to Willis, the group's lead sger and -lyricist until he qu 1983, he was the only straight member of the band and rented assumptns they were a gay group for a gay dience. Jacqu was suckg up to the gay muny bee he wanted to be a star the gay muny, but I listened to 'Macho Man' and thought, 'This is a parody of what's gog on. "Tmp most recently played Village People's 1978 track "Macho Man, " a song that is wily nsired a gay anthem, as he entered a rally Sardar Patel Stadium Ahmedabad, India, on Monday.

He has been playg the song at ralli sce at least noted the irony of Tmp enterg to "Macho Man, " given his admistratn's track rerd on LGBTQ rights and the fact that Village People is rooted gay culture (the group's name refers to New York Cy's Greenwich Village, which was known for s large gay populatn durg s formatn). "Bee, y'know, he's such a gay in. 27, 1978, and marked the start of the group the way most people remember , they embraced an unrepentantly gay inty – when that was a perilo thg to do – and simultaneoly managed to wre such tchy songs that even the most strint opponents of what they stand for have been happily sgg along wh them for sexual polics of the 1970s were far more plex than many people remember.

SAM SMH’S NEW SGLE ‘MAN I AM’ IS THEIR GAYT SONG YET

The Stonewall Rts of 1969 brought the systematic opprsn of gay and lbian people to the natnal nscns for the first time, and by the early '70s, what had long been unrground was begng to be celebrated the mastream. In jt a few years, the Kks sred a Top 10 h wh "Lola" (about a young man who first rists and then embrac fallg love wh a woman who may be transgenr), cross-drsg and androgyny-embracg micians like Lou Reed and David Bowie achieved superstar stat, and movi like The Rocky Horror Picture Show beme cult of which is not to say that bigotry or homophobia somehow subsid: The AIDS epimic, which began the early '80s, was virtually ignored bee was seen as a "gay" disease, and took s for artists and celebri to be fortable g out of the closet.