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Contents:
- THE REAL STORY OF THE YMCA THAT INSPIRED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S GAY ANTHEM
- ˝ A MSAGE FROM THE GAY COMMUNY˝ PERFORMED BY THE SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS
- 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
THE REAL STORY OF THE YMCA THAT INSPIRED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S GAY ANTHEM
The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos releas ntroversial song about how their “gay agenda” will “rpt” children to be “alli.” * message from the gay community lyrics *
The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a mic vio July 1 tled “A Msage From the Gay Communy” that tails their missn of “nvertg” children. The vers slowly build to a boistero chos of “we’re g for your children” and “the gay agenda is g home. The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a statement on July 8 fendg the song, sayg the cricisms are “far-right.
The Queasy Double Msage of Taylor Swift’s ‘You Need to Calm Down’The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of Swift, drsed as a ench y, mak up wh her pop-star rival the climax to a vio supposedly about gay rights.
Shout along wh this bra benr: “Sha never ma anybody ls gay! The song’s send verse tak on homophobic monstrators: “Sunshe on the street at the para / But you would rather be the dark ag. It clos wh a plug to sign a petn for the passage of the Equaly Act, which would ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and a star whose greatt polil ntroversy ed to be that she had no polics, a sgle that name-checks GLAAD is a real evolutn, and ’s already reportedly havg the ncrete effect of boostg donatns for gay rights.
˝ A MSAGE FROM THE GAY COMMUNY˝ PERFORMED BY THE SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS
The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of persecutn. * message from the gay community lyrics *
LGBTQ folks sirg legal protectns, cultural cln, social servic, and all the other ems on the gay agenda rightly wele the help of straight people. If heterosexuals bee overly important the gay movement, then be harr to talk, wh precisn, about what the movement is actually for. Thought this vio was about gay rights?
The send verse is the one about homophobic protters. )Onle snarkers agast superstars and -person shouters at gay people—why are the two class of people sharg a song? ” This explas the headle-quotable le that “sha never ma anybody ls gay.
55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ PRI SONGS)
There are many ways to scribe a parent who disowns a trans kid, or a lawmaker who tri to nullify same-sex marriag, or a church member who crash a gay soldier’s funeral. Homophobia is a real iology wh a real history.
Tellg homophob they’re borg downers probably won’t sway them, and ’s hard to image that such a msage will fort many of the people they target. “You Need to Calm Down” has, between s muddled metaphors, only one clear through le: Swift’s stggl wh cricism the public eye are like those of gay people facg actual hate for beg who they are. 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. “There was certaly a party aspect to their vio and that time was the height of all the gay clubs Chelsea, ” rells Davidson Garrett, who lived at the McBurney Y om 1978 through 2000.