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I’m pretty sure the age demographics here remembers The Village People. I’ll be honest I wasn’t a fan but the soundtrack is part of my youth and a million weddings I attended inevitable would play YMCA or In the Navy.
Suffice to say, they had a moment and I’m sure some of you already have a Village People music worm running through your mind now. They were fun, campy, and quintessentially emblematic of the gay male culture of the time. I mean come on they called themselves The Village People in an era of Stonewall, and the West Village of NYC gay culture. The debut album Village People, which targeted disco's large gay audience. The group's name refers to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, with its reputation as a gay neighborhood. The characters were a symbolic group of American masculinity[3] and macho gay-fantasy personas.
None of that mattered in the 70’s & 80’s people just wanted to get their boggie down an disco the night away, or maybe we were just more accepting and tolerant.
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Flash forward to present day anti wokeness, anti LGBTQ+ and basic culture wars we are now dealing with.
So my thought experiment is what do you think would happen if the Village People phenomenon were to happen in todays divisive American society ? Would they be banned in Texas, Florida and every other MAGA Red state ? Would they be burning or AR15 shooting photos and albums or worse attending a concert and mass shooting the concert goers because it promotes homosexuality.
This time reminders me of the Dark Ages when we went from Michelangelo and Leonardo ( both suspected to be gay ) to one Dimensional ultra religious, ultra conservative step backwards in art, culture, science etc.
Suffice to say, they had a moment and I’m sure some of you already have a Village People music worm running through your mind now. They were fun, campy, and quintessentially emblematic of the gay male culture of the time. I mean come on they called themselves The Village People in an era of Stonewall, and the West Village of NYC gay culture. The debut album Village People, which targeted disco's large gay audience. The group's name refers to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, with its reputation as a gay neighborhood. The characters were a symbolic group of American masculinity[3] and macho gay-fantasy personas.
None of that mattered in the 70’s & 80’s people just wanted to get their boggie down an disco the night away, or maybe we were just more accepting and tolerant.
IMG_0038.jpg
Flash forward to present day anti wokeness, anti LGBTQ+ and basic culture wars we are now dealing with.
So my thought experiment is what do you think would happen if the Village People phenomenon were to happen in todays divisive American society ? Would they be banned in Texas, Florida and every other MAGA Red state ? Would they be burning or AR15 shooting photos and albums or worse attending a concert and mass shooting the concert goers because it promotes homosexuality.
This time reminders me of the Dark Ages when we went from Michelangelo and Leonardo ( both suspected to be gay ) to one Dimensional ultra religious, ultra conservative step backwards in art, culture, science etc.
She and her mom are going to see him in concert in a few weeks.
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