Nile Rodgers said the sger did not know she was makg a gay anthem.
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DIANA ROSS DIDN'T KNOW 'I'M COMG OUT' WAS 'A GAY THG'
"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.
“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. '” Ross later embraced the song, and her gay inhood.
How do a song bee a gay anthem? While ’s impossible to fe exactly what mak a song “gay, ” this list fely isn’t straight. Wh two gay ins on one song, “No More Tears” opens wh Streisand croong “It’s rag, ’s pourg/ My love life is borg me to tears.