Village People

[Zuludawn]

Anyone remember them? When we were kids and they first came on the scene all we knew about them was how cool it would be to dress up as a cop, biker or construction worker, and hang out at the YMCA or join the Navy and we all wanted to be Macho Men. Then of course my Dad explained that they were gay and that ended that.

[Zuludawn]

Sorry, I forgot about the Indian and the construction worker.

[Zuludawn]

Their music was okay for that era, if you can get past the gay thing.

[karmicresponse]

Dear writer; A bit of humor on this one. The village people achieved one great thing.They embarrased the YMCA so badly the Y.m.c.a. moved to a co-ed venue. Most generally Gay people tend to be better dancers than others because their social venues were concentrated so much in the Discos in the 1970s-1980s era. There wa a very brilliant lady discussing Michael Jacksons demise on cnn. Basically she stated Michael Jackson was a pioneer in a morphing process. Male into female, and vice versa, Black into white and vice versa, gay into straight and vice versa. One of the largest reasons being gay is not so much of a big deal these days is because they are pretty much intergrated into a community process. That is, no matter what our orientation is, we all have an obligation to community, and the welfare of all members of our community. The last bastion of the morphing process is of course the mind and thought patterns. As being gay was considered the cutting edge in the 1980s, venues like dreamcentral are on the cutting edge in the 2000s.