'I'm Comg Out' by Diana Ross, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards is a gay anthem, but for a while, the former Suprem star missed the pot. Read here.
Contents:
- DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS A 'GAY THG,' ACRDG TO PRODUCER NILE RODGERS
- NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
- DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS 'A GAY THG'
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS A 'GAY THG,' ACRDG TO PRODUCER NILE RODGERS
Nile Rodgers said the sger did not know she was makg a gay anthem. * is im coming out a gay song *
"I'm Comg Out, " om Diana Ross's Diana album, is perhaps the apex of gay anthems. "She didn't unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, 'I'm g out of the closet, '" said Rodgers. "Rodgers said he ultimately nvced Ross to sg the track, argug would make the perfect opener for an entertaer, addn to tablishg her as one of the greatt gay ins.
NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round. * is im coming out a gay song *
“She didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg, ” Rodgers says, “that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet.
DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS 'A GAY THG'
* is im coming out a gay song *
'” Ross later embraced the song, and her gay inhood. Rodgers got the ia for "I'm Comg Out" when he went to a gay club New York Cy. "Comg Out" means g out of the closet and beg openly Rodgers relled to the Mail on Sunday's Event magaze 2013 that a DJ warned Diana Ross that this song was gog to her reer bee people would thk she was gay.
' We had wrten bee of her gay followg, but I said she should e as her 'g-out' song – to start her gigs – and she has ever sce. Addg, "But [Ross] didn't unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, I'm g out of the closet. " Ross may have not known then but she fully embraced the song and what meant to the LGBTQ muny, who celebrate her as a gay in.
But Rodgers and Edwards helped make that superstar she brighter than ever: Ross’ classic “Diana” album — released 40 years ago on May 22, 1980 — went on to bee the bt-sellg LP of her reer wh hs such as “Upsi Down” and the gay anthem “I’m Comg Out.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
” “But she didn’t unrstand that that was a gay thg, that that was a person sayg, ‘I’m g out of the closet, ’ ” says Rodgers.