at the building owned and operated by the YMCA often used before another noun. We play basketball every weekend at the YMCA. He has been repeatedly criticized by pro-LGBTQ goups, including the Human Rights Campaign and The Trevor Project. : an international organization originally for young men that provides social programs, a place for athletic activities, etc., for the people in a community. In any case, it seems that Trump probably didn’t pick the song to promote gay rights. “But if you happen to be a gay man and have the experience and perspective of hooking up with each other, it’s another way it can be perceived.” “I think you can go into the lyrics of ‘YMCA,’ and if you are a straight jock who worked out at the Y, you are going to perceive it one way,” Jones told Gothamist. Later, in 2014, Jones said anyone could find whatever meaning they were looking for. Those visits with me planted a seed in him, and that’s how he got the idea for ‘Y.M.C.A.’ - by literally going to the YMCA.” Plus, with Jacques being gay, I had a lot of friends I worked out with who were in the adult-film industry, and he was impressed by meeting people he had seen in the videos and magazines. He was fascinated by a place where a person could work out with weights, play basketball, swim, take classes, and get a room. “I took Jacques there three or four times in 1977, and he loved it. “What happened is that when I moved to New York in 1975, I joined the McBurney YMCA on 23rd Street,” he continued. Jones doesn’t even think Hodo is correctly recalling how Morali was inspired. Do you have the lyrics in front of you? There’s nothing gay about them,” Jones said. However, singer Randy Jones (the cowboy) and Victor Willis (the cop) both claim that it isn’t intended to be specific to the LGBTQ community. So was the song written to celebrate gay men at the YMCA? Yes. “That’s what Jacques was thinking when he wrote it, because our first album was possibly the gayest album ever. “‘Y.M.C.A.’ certainly has a gay origin,” he said in the 2008 interview. Hodo says that someone made a joke while they were passing the McBurney YMCA in New York City about gay men at the Y that inspired Morali, a gay man, to write the song. However, in an oral history from Spin, David Hodo (remembered as the construction worker) claims producer Jacques Morali, who died of AIDS in 1991, definitely intended it to be gay. Sure, there was ambiguity and they were using a double entendre, but it was really just supposed to be one more song to fill out the album.” “It was just a filler song, based on the ex-producer seeing the YMCA sign during lunch and asking us what it meant. "Well, first of all, the song was never written about anything to do with gay,” founding member Felipe Rose (recognizable as the Native American) told the Huffington Post in 2014. So is gay acceptance the real meaning behind the “YMCA” song? The Village People are still in disagreement. yG8cWxfWjz- Robert Rutledge August 24, 2020 Trump finishes his first speech at the #RNC2020Convention while inexplicably they play the Village People's "YMCA" - a widely recognized gay anthem.
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