Village People lyricist praises Trump’s use of ‘YMCA’ and denies it’s a ‘gay anthem’

Village People lyricist Victor Willis has praised Donald Trump’s use of “YMCA” during campaign rallies, and threatened legal action against media outlets calling the group’s hit song a gay anthem, despite two of the original band members being out gay men. 

Willis, who is heterosexual, has previously denied the track had any links to the LGBTQ+ community, and said that from January his wife, who is the band’s manager, would sue any news organisation that refers to the song as a gay anthem, NBC reported. 

While the singer-songwriter said he doesn’t mind people considering the single a gay anthem, he wrote on Facebook post on Monday (2 December) that such assumptions were “damaging to the song” and that “once again” people should get their “minds out of the gutter”. 

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