The Real Story Of The YMCA That Inspired The Village People's Gay Anthem - Gothamist

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• THE GAY ECSTASY OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE
• A GAY IN REMEMBERS LIFE THE VILLAGE, AND THE VILLAGE PEOPLE
• THE REAL STORY OF THE YMCA THAT INSPIRED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S GAY ANTHEM
• WE ARE NOT A GAY ACT, VILLAGE PEOPLE SAY (WH A STRAIGHT FACE)
•  THE VILLAGE PEOPLE MACHO MAN VICTOR WILLIS YMCA GAY ANTHEMS TMP RALLI GROUP UPDAT
• VILLAGE PEOPLE GIV TMP OK TO PLAY GAY ANTHEMS 'YMCA,' 'MACHO MAN' AT RALLI
• GLENN HUGH LIVED FOR VILLAGE PEOPLE, FRIENDS SAYGROUP'S ORIGAL BIKER, WHO DIED MARCH 4, HAD KEPT TOUCH WH 35,000 FANS VIA {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MICBY ARCHIVE-COREY-MOSSMARCH 13, 2001/6:39 PMBY ARCHIVE-COREY-MOSSMARCH 13, 2001 / 6:39 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"GLENN HUGH LIVED FOR VILLAGE PEOPLE, FRIENDS SAY","DATEPUBLISHED":"2001-03-13T23:39:00.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2001-03-13T23:39:00.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"ARCHIVE-COREY-MOSS","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GLENN HUGH, THE ORIGAL BIKER OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, LIVED FOR THE DIS GROUP HE JOED 24 YEARS AGO, EVEN REQUTG TO BE BURIED HIS LEATHER STUME, IENDS SAID TUDAY (MARCH 13).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH DIED OF LUNG NCER MARCH 4 HIS MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, HOME. HE WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S MANAGER, MCH WEISS, SAID THE NCER WAS THE FAL STAG WHEN WAS TECTED HUGH, AND THERE WAS NOTHG MEDIL EXPERTS ULD DO. "IT ME AS A SURPRISE TO EVERYONE," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE VILLAGE PEOPLE WERE ASSEMBLED 1977 TO APPEAL TO THE EMERGG GAY AND DIS SCEN. THE GROUP HAD A HUGE H A YEAR LATER WH "Y.M.C.A.," A NOVELTY TUNE THAT REMAS A DANCE FLOOR FAVORE MORE THAN TWO S AFTER CLIMBED TO #2 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEY HAD OTHER HS, SUCH AS "MACHO MAN," "IN THE NAVY" AND "GO WT," THOUGH THE THEIR IMAGE, WHICH HAD MEMBERS DRSED AS A BIKER, POLICEMAN, WBOY, GI, NSTCTN WORKER AND INDIAN, OFTEN GARNERED MORE ATTENTN THAN THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH' FUNERAL WAS HELD FRIDAY, AND HIS FELLOW VILLAGE PEOPLE BANDMAT SERVED AS PALLBEARERS. ALEXANR BRILEY, THE ORIGAL AND CURRENT GI, SANG "WHERE DO I GO?" OM "HAIR" DURG THE CEREMONY, WHICH HUGH HAD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"OUR LIV WILL NEVER BE THE SAME," DAVID HODO, THE ORIGAL AND CURRENT NSTCTN WORKER, SAID TUDAY. "WE MISS HIM ARLY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH, WHO DNED FOR THE VILLAGE PEOPLE ON A DARE WHILE WORKG AS A TOLLBOOTH LLECTOR AT THE HOLLAND TUNNEL NEW JERSEY, LAST PERFORMED WH THE GROUP 1996 BUT NTUED TO WORK WH THE GROUP'S ADMISTRATN UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS ATH. HE SPORTED A HANDLEBAR MTACHE AND WORE LEATHER ONSTAGE AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH' BASS VOICE WAS HEARD ON ALL OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S HS, AND HE STARRED AND SANG "DANNY BOY" THE 1980 MOVIE "CAN'T STOP THE MIC."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE ALSO SANG ON THE BAND'S MOST RECENT TWO HOE MIC SGL — "LOVHIP 2001" AND "GUNBALANYA" — UNR THE NAME VILLAGE PEOPLE ALIAS THE AMAZG VEEPERS. THE LATTER TUNE, WHICH MEANS " THE TRIBE," WAS WRTEN ATRALIA WH A GROUP OF ABORIG DURG A DOCUMENTARY FILMED BY THE UNTRY'S PUBLIC TELEVISN WORK. BOTH SGL HAVE BEEN RELEASED ON THE GROUP'S OWN LABEL, PLENTY BIG MIC. THEY ALSO CLU THE CURRENT BIKER, ERIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH, WHOSE VILLAGE PEOPLE CHARACTER ALSO WAS KNOWN AS THE "LEATHERMAN," KEPT TOUCH WH MORE THAN 35,000 VILLAGE PEOPLE FANS BY E-MAIL, ACRDG TO WEISS. "HE ADORED BEG ASSOCIATED WH THIS BAND," HE SAID. "HE WASN'T TOURG WH THEM, BUT HE WAS THE VILLAGE PEOPLE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH IS SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS AND SISTER. HE ASKED THAT LI OF FLOWERS, DONATNS BE MA TO THE GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A MEMORIAL ON THE BAND'S WEB SE () IS BEG NSTCTED BY MEMBERS FELIPE ROSE (ORIGAL AND CURRENT INDIAN), RAY SIMPSON (CURRENT POLICEMAN), JEFF OLSON (CURRENT WBOY), BRILEY, HODO AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"GLENN HAD A TALENT FOR KEEPG THGS LIGHT AND ULD MAKE YOU LGH EVEN ON YOUR WORST DAY," HUGH' SISTER, CDY, SAID AT HIS FUNERAL. "HIS QUICK W, TERRIFIC DANCG AND FABULO VOICE WERE HIS TRAMARKS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• 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 VIEWER6.7K VIEWS13 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
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

THE GAY ECSTASY OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE

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.

– 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.

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.

A GAY IN REMEMBERS LIFE THE VILLAGE, AND THE VILLAGE PEOPLE

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.

THE REAL STORY OF THE YMCA THAT INSPIRED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S GAY ANTHEM

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. A Gay In Remembers Life the Village, and the Village PeopleFifty years after Stonewall, Felipe Rose—“The Indian” om the Village People—remembers New York Cy’s Greenwich Village as the gay rights movement took Rose, origal member of the Village People, was high school New York Cy when the Stonewall Rebelln happened 1969.

The reason for this I argue is that the strong nttatn over the image of “gay leather”, as reflected the pageant posters on Facebook, is about “the public” nsumptn of the imag and what they say – not about leathermen, but about the gay and lbian muny by associatn.

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

In the 40 years sce the Village People released “YMCA, ” the song has bee a cultural touchstone: a gay anthem famo for s nuendos and double entendr about young, f men “havg a good time, ” as well as a staple at Yanke gam and bar song has also immortalized the Young Men's Christian Associatn pop culture. Yet former rints of the McBurney Y Chelsea — the buildg that spired the song, and which was featured the vio released late 1978 — say the realy of stays at the YMCA those days was more plited than the lyrics portray, wh gay culture and workg-class workouts existg a sgle munal space. Meanwhile, hoekeepers me not jt to offer towels and change your sheets, but to keep an eye on you, Kangappadan of the song’s charm, of urse, is s petg terpretatns: It n be read equally well as a celebratn of gay culture or of the workg man.

And as a Sp oral history revealed on the song's 30th anniversary ten years ago, even the group self didn't agree on the proper Hodo (“the nstctn worker”) sisted to Sp that Jacqu Morali, the French producer who helped create the group and -wrote the song wh lead sger Victor Willis (“the p”), certaly had the gay muny md when he me up wh the song.

'The image of Village People reflected the gay culture that emerged om New York clubs the mid-1970s, but Willis explas the songs he wrote were ncerned wh universal them rather than specifilly targetg an LGBT dience.

 THE VILLAGE PEOPLE MACHO MAN VICTOR WILLIS YMCA GAY ANTHEMS TMP RALLI GROUP UPDAT

A homosexual outf loud and proud, drsed down trad butch imagery, bearg the handle of New York’s ma gay district wh enough sense and style not to giggle and get mp like a half-dozen fancy-drs Charl the Stat, their biggt followg is among 12- to 15-year-old kids, which uld be seen as a Kiss-and-make-up shoot off, although the group feel no nnectn at all that field. I always believe the old proverb “Don’t Fuck About”, and straightaway ask if ’s te to say that Village People, through their many sloganeerg lyrics, are out to liberate gays om mental reprsn by means of open our ial chummy troductn (“Gard, I’d go crazy if that happened to my luggage”), Randy is not amed.

“All WHAT money I’m makg, huh … ”It may jt have been an -joke, but wouldn’t surprise me to fd that the Village People were on a weekly salary or ss down, and he turns out to be the bt terviewee of all, unwillg to dismiss the large part gays have played the band’s growg.

A prs release obtaed by TMZ tailed that the proposal, nuptials, and banquet will beg Thursday the 60-year-old's native New mtacheoed Macho Man sger origally wed Grega at a night club 2004, but at the time gay marriage wasn't legal the state. The mtacheoed Macho Man sger origally wed Grega at a Manhattan night club 2004, but at the time gay marriage wasn't legal the state On Friday, the engaged uple will wed at Cy Hall ont of their mothers, followed by a rooftop bar party hosted by Warrgton Gillette (Friday the 13th Part 2).

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

Dis boyband: Several members of The Village People angered their largely gay followg this year by sayg they're 'jt a party band' and that In the Navy was 'jt about enlistg' The dis boyband was origally created 1977 to target gay dienc livg Greenwich Village by stumg each sger macho man fantasy personas. Out and proud: The Village People was origally created 1977 to target gay dienc, but only two members are openly gay - Jon and foundg 'Indian' Felipe Rose Even Rose sisted that the Village People were 'jt a party band. 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.

While the lyrics don't nta any specific gay referenc, the song beme a gay 1977, producers Jacqu Morali and Henri Belolo assembled a group signed to attract gay dienc while parodyg (some claimed explog) that same nstuency's stereotyp.

GLENN HUGH LIVED FOR VILLAGE PEOPLE, FRIENDS SAYGROUP'S ORIGAL BIKER, WHO DIED MARCH 4, HAD KEPT TOUCH WH 35,000 FANS VIA {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MICBY ARCHIVE-COREY-MOSSMARCH 13, 2001/6:39 PMBY ARCHIVE-COREY-MOSSMARCH 13, 2001 / 6:39 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"GLENN HUGH LIVED FOR VILLAGE PEOPLE, FRIENDS SAY","DATEPUBLISHED":"2001-03-13T23:39:00.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2001-03-13T23:39:00.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"ARCHIVE-COREY-MOSS","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GLENN HUGH, THE ORIGAL BIKER OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, LIVED FOR THE DIS GROUP HE JOED 24 YEARS AGO, EVEN REQUTG TO BE BURIED HIS LEATHER STUME, IENDS SAID TUDAY (MARCH 13).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH DIED OF LUNG NCER MARCH 4 HIS MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, HOME. HE WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S MANAGER, MCH WEISS, SAID THE NCER WAS THE FAL STAG WHEN WAS TECTED HUGH, AND THERE WAS NOTHG MEDIL EXPERTS ULD DO. "IT ME AS A SURPRISE TO EVERYONE," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE VILLAGE PEOPLE WERE ASSEMBLED 1977 TO APPEAL TO THE EMERGG GAY AND DIS SCEN. THE GROUP HAD A HUGE H A YEAR LATER WH "Y.M.C.A.," A NOVELTY TUNE THAT REMAS A DANCE FLOOR FAVORE MORE THAN TWO S AFTER CLIMBED TO #2 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEY HAD OTHER HS, SUCH AS "MACHO MAN," "IN THE NAVY" AND "GO WT," THOUGH THE THEIR IMAGE, WHICH HAD MEMBERS DRSED AS A BIKER, POLICEMAN, WBOY, GI, NSTCTN WORKER AND INDIAN, OFTEN GARNERED MORE ATTENTN THAN THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH' FUNERAL WAS HELD FRIDAY, AND HIS FELLOW VILLAGE PEOPLE BANDMAT SERVED AS PALLBEARERS. ALEXANR BRILEY, THE ORIGAL AND CURRENT GI, SANG "WHERE DO I GO?" OM "HAIR" DURG THE CEREMONY, WHICH HUGH HAD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"OUR LIV WILL NEVER BE THE SAME," DAVID HODO, THE ORIGAL AND CURRENT NSTCTN WORKER, SAID TUDAY. "WE MISS HIM ARLY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH, WHO DNED FOR THE VILLAGE PEOPLE ON A DARE WHILE WORKG AS A TOLLBOOTH LLECTOR AT THE HOLLAND TUNNEL NEW JERSEY, LAST PERFORMED WH THE GROUP 1996 BUT NTUED TO WORK WH THE GROUP'S ADMISTRATN UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS ATH. HE SPORTED A HANDLEBAR MTACHE AND WORE LEATHER ONSTAGE AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH' BASS VOICE WAS HEARD ON ALL OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S HS, AND HE STARRED AND SANG "DANNY BOY" THE 1980 MOVIE "CAN'T STOP THE MIC."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE ALSO SANG ON THE BAND'S MOST RECENT TWO HOE MIC SGL — "LOVHIP 2001" AND "GUNBALANYA" — UNR THE NAME VILLAGE PEOPLE ALIAS THE AMAZG VEEPERS. THE LATTER TUNE, WHICH MEANS " THE TRIBE," WAS WRTEN ATRALIA WH A GROUP OF ABORIG DURG A DOCUMENTARY FILMED BY THE UNTRY'S PUBLIC TELEVISN WORK. BOTH SGL HAVE BEEN RELEASED ON THE GROUP'S OWN LABEL, PLENTY BIG MIC. THEY ALSO CLU THE CURRENT BIKER, ERIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH, WHOSE VILLAGE PEOPLE CHARACTER ALSO WAS KNOWN AS THE "LEATHERMAN," KEPT TOUCH WH MORE THAN 35,000 VILLAGE PEOPLE FANS BY E-MAIL, ACRDG TO WEISS. "HE ADORED BEG ASSOCIATED WH THIS BAND," HE SAID. "HE WASN'T TOURG WH THEM, BUT HE WAS THE VILLAGE PEOPLE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUGH IS SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS AND SISTER. HE ASKED THAT LI OF FLOWERS, DONATNS BE MA TO THE GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A MEMORIAL ON THE BAND'S WEB SE () IS BEG NSTCTED BY MEMBERS FELIPE ROSE (ORIGAL AND CURRENT INDIAN), RAY SIMPSON (CURRENT POLICEMAN), JEFF OLSON (CURRENT WBOY), BRILEY, HODO AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"GLENN HAD A TALENT FOR KEEPG THGS LIGHT AND ULD MAKE YOU LGH EVEN ON YOUR WORST DAY," HUGH' SISTER, CDY, SAID AT HIS FUNERAL. "HIS QUICK W, TERRIFIC DANCG AND FABULO VOICE WERE HIS TRAMARKS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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The roll ll would also have to clu Margaret Thatcher, whose notor Sectn 28 - a clse the Lol Government Act passed 1988 - galvanised a spectacular aln, rangg om theatre imprars to librarians, to fend the right to a gay life. Anrton, an evangelil Christian, enuraged his officers to stalk s dank alleys and expose anyone ught a clch, while police motorboats wh spotlights cised for gay men around the nal's locks and kd of surveillance was nothg new the area. Now the place is so succsful that simultaneoly wel and dreads hors of straight ghost of missnary Anrton was fally laid to rt when the current chief nstable led his gay lleagu' ntgent at EuroPri 2003, a 10-day Mardi Gras the gay village.

The municipal radils took over the uncil durg the 1980s when ernment money poured to ner-cy regeneratn and cultural entreprenrs played midwife to Madchter's pop the very succs of the gay village brought s own risks - has had a trajectory which the gay quarters of other ci might the 1980s, there were only a uple of pubs on Canal Street, remembers Ia Stt, who now ns Ts, one of the village's many fe/bars. Gay men had e to be wary, and as for lbians, few bars ma any women era of the bar-as-bunker changed 1990 when Carol Asw and her bs partner Peter Dalton bought a wreck of a buildg Canal Street and opened up Manto, a geo, glass-walled bar that turned everythg si out. All that activy, he says, was "tegral to brgg the village together" a vigil was anised spontaneoly the village memory of a man killed by the vis, metamorphosed to the Gay Pri every Augt bank holiday which, after a few years of sulks and spectacular succs, climaxed the triumphant EuroPri 2003.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

But n be a victim of s own succs that n move through the cycle of unsirable area to sirable very quickly ed and the gay people for whom the area was once a haven fd that soon be yet another place which they feel alienated.