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HOW THE US DOCTRE OF MANIFT STY BEME THE GAY ANTHEM GO WT
“Both of my labels really took a chance on me [as a gay artist] and entered a realm that for a major [label] was a really big step, ” he says. " In the ntext of this gay dis outf, the ll to go wt wasn't about polil domatn at all: It was a thly disguised ll to the untry's gay men to go wt to San Francis search of a homosexual utopia by the beach, makg the song somethg of a nghty si joke.
Only a to the gay rights movement, some people imaged California as a sort of dream natn for gay people. It was home to the natn's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977 (and then murred by a fellow Supervisor 1978). Thoands of gay people, pecially men, moved to the San Francis Bay Area durg that perd search of an open and acceptg muny, and the cy remas the natn's acknowledged epicenter of LGBT history and, so that vers Manift Dty and gay liberatn.
"I thought would be a good song to play at a Derek Jarman event—a song about an ialistic gay utopia, " says Lowe. When the Village People sung about a gay utopia seemed for real, but lookg back hdsight wasn't the utopia they all thought would be.