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Never Gonna Give You Up

Never Gonna Give You Up is a song by Rick Astley and a chapter in Stonewall to Obama. It describes coming face to face with AIDS for the first time. Here’s an article and excerpt from Canada’s PositiveLite Magazine. http://positivelite.com/component/zoo/item/never-gonna-give-you-up

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Cover Art

The image above is a photo collage which became the image base for Jeff Huntington’s painting S2O. It’s the cover art for ‘Stonewall to Obama.’

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YMCA

http://youtu.be/1U0yry0XJZ8 If ever there was a gay recruiting song, it was ‘YMCA.’ It was every parent’s worst nightmare. In fact most of the Village People’s music was an assault on the heterosexual ideal. ‘YMCA,’ ‘Crusin’,’ ‘In The Navy,’ ‘Macho Man’ and ‘Go West’ called out to all the young boys to come join the gay […]

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Over the Rainbow

Somewhere Over the Rainbow is considered the first gay anthem. Of course, there were songs prior to SOTR that closeted gays identified with throughout the ages. But, movies and later, music videos play a huge role in gay culture. We’re a very visual people – and The Wizard of Oz was over the top and […]

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