Was donna summer gay

Donna Summer's music was banned in gay clubs. The LGBT community was ready to dim all the lights on her career. She soon released a statement that seemed less like a denial, but more of.

After eight years of success as the queen of the disco scene she had moved out of the club circuit and was now playing large theatres and arenas. The gay community had helped build her career by buying – by the truckload – what The Advocate magazine called “fuck anthems” like Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love and Hot Stuff.

A journalist alleged that Donna Summer made a series of intensely harmful homophobic remarks at a concert in , however, the singer strongly denies this.

Back in the s, Donna Summer was protested by gay groups such as ACT UP for her statements attributed to a Village Voice article that AIDS was God’s punishment for the gays.