Is she still anti-gay?
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3_Beekman_Place — 19 years ago(February 02, 2007 01:48 PM)
Some people will never move on they can't. The rumours that she was a sex-change still live on, even though she had a daughter when they started and 2 others since!
Maybe this from Wikipedia.com will help calm your fears
Controversy
During her lengthy career, Summer has dealt with controversy both professionally and personally. Her first hit, "The Hostage" was banned in Germany, and other radio stations banned her music for being sexually suggestive, with "Love to Love You Baby" being an example.
In 1991, during the height of the Gulf War, Summer's song "State Of Independence" was banned from US radio play alongside many other songs that were deemed to have an imflammatory effect on the population.
Rumors persisted that Summer was in fact a man in drag and not a woman, a rumour Summer addressed in 1989 on The Arsenio Hall Show. A far more painful incident came in the early 1980s with reports that she had made anti-gay remarks associated with the AIDS epidemic. Her songs were banned for a number of years in some gay establishments over these rumours.
Summer has long denied such allegations, and finally taking legal action against a newspaper who had printed the rumors during a review of a concert. Summer tearfully stated, "I never said anything that was written about me in that article". To make amends, Summer has since played for AIDS benefits and has donated proceeds to AIDS research. Even in 2006, she is still asked about the rumors, recently by a Canadian newspaper. Summer responded, "So many people in my audiences are gay. I cant live my life trying to assure people of anything. You have to live knowing who you are. I think that my actions and the person that I am speak louder than somebody elses misgivings or2000 lies about me," says Summer now. "They print all kinds of things about people all the time but you cant run after every single lie. You tell people the truth and if they choose to believe you, they do."
A better question is can anybody provide a link to the article where she supposedly said these things. In all these posts I don't think anyone has every said exactly where and when she made these comments! -
jimmyuscareways — 19 years ago(February 08, 2007 11:35 PM)
The Devil is a liar! Donna Summer is a child of "GOD". when you serve the Lord like Ms. Summer does
people will make up all kinds of things about you because of what you stand for! It's just not fair that she still to this day has to deal with these false rumors! "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" -
SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 10:57 PM)
'The Devil is a liar! Donna Summer is a child of "GOD". when you serve the Lord like Ms. Summer does
people will make up all kinds of things about you because of what you stand for! It's just not fair that she still to this day has to deal with these false rumors! "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"
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hehe
I don't what remarks she allegedly made, but being a child of GOD? Wouldn't a child of God be a Christian,and Christians,of all people,are the ones who have a common religious belief of anti-homosexuality.
I am saying she is pro or con for homosexuality, but we don't know how she really felt. Because gays had the ole connection(Streisand,Garland,etc.) with her does not mean it was particulary 2-sided. Singers don't care who thier audience is, they are happy to have an audience.
I know,now people will think I am implying she is anti-gay, but being tactful about it.
No, I'm doing that. -
SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 11:00 PM)
'The Devil is a liar! Donna Summer is a child of "GOD". when you serve the Lord like Ms. Summer does
people will make up all kinds of things about2000 you because of what you stand for! It's just not fair that she still to this day has to deal with these false rumors! "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"
'
hehe
I don't what remarks she allegedly made, but being a child of GOD? Wouldn't a child of God be a Christian,and Christians,of all people,are the ones who have a common religious belief of anti-homosexuality.
I am not saying she was pro or con for homosexuality, but we don't know how she really felt. Because gays had the ole connection(Streisand,Garland,etc.) with her does not mean it was particulary 2-sided. Singers don't care who thier audience is, they are happy to have an audience.
I know,now people will think I am implying she is anti-gay, but being tactful about it.
No, I'm not doing that. -
robbie71 — 19 years ago(February 27, 2007 05:49 AM)
I also believe it to that day that Donna Summer lost her mind back in the early 80's and made those remarks. This was a fatal error since most of her(male) fans were/are actually gay. It's been a while and I think we should leave her alone with this "rumour". Gay people love her anyway and she loves them too (eventhough in the christian believe being gay is against God).
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pvd295 — 18 years ago(March 04, 2008 01:11 PM)
Summer addresses this rumour and the libel case she won against the publication "New York Magazine" in her autobiography "Ordinary Girl". As I recall, the defendant (the writer) had no proof whatsoever that she had said such things (no audio, no video, no handwritten notes, etc) and she won.
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mookindahouse — 13 years ago(May 18, 2012 03:48 AM)
she was never anti-gay. one of her staffers put that story about her in The Advocate and Donna fired that staffer and I believe she sued The Advocate for slander.
something similar happened to Gloria Gaynor around the same time. -
jefgg — 12 years ago(May 31, 2013 03:33 PM)
in 1989 Summer told The Advocate magazine that "a couple of the people I write with are gay, and they have been ever since I met them. What people want to do with their bodies is their personal preference." A couple of years later, she filed a lawsuit against New York magazine when it reprinted the rumours as fact just as she was about to release her album Mistaken Identity in 1991. According to a Biography television program dedicated to Summer in which she participated in 1995, the lawsuit was settled out of court though neither side was able to divulge any details