Lesley gore gay
The Brill Building, just north of Times Square in Manhattan, is famed for being the place where some of the most beloved songs in American pop music were written. Once considered the home of the American harmony industry in the early ‘60s, this place introduced us to the most famous songwriters and artists who are world known to this day. Among those include Paul Simon, Carole King, Burt Bacharach, and Phil Spector.
Another call that deserves to be mentioned and known to this day is Lesley Gore.
I was raised on the tune of Lesley Gore by my mother, who herself was on the grasp of maturity when Gore’s songs were on the Billboard charts. The songs my mother once used as a coping mechanism as a teen became the same for me. It offered me a closeness to my mother but also a great sense into just what the world once was.
Born Lesley Sue Goldstein, though her family changed their surname to Gore soon after her birth, she grew up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn with dreams of being a singer. Her chance was presented when, while a junior in high school, her vocal coach recorded a demo featuring her vocals and a piano. This tape fell into the hands of producer Quincy Jones, who was worki
Over the years, Gore’s music became synonymous with female solidarity. At the tail end of 1995’s The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn reprise “You Don’t Hold Me.” Dressed in white suits, they sway their bodies and swing their limbs like members of an aged girl band. While the film’s premise centers around their characters getting financial and amorous revenge on their duplicitous ex-husbands, all action is driven by their strong bond as friends, as women. With a little help from Lesley, their camaraderie receives the last word.
In 2012, Lesley lent the same song to a reproductive justice PSA featuring dozens of female creatives, many of whom have been active in projects that celebrated community among women, among them Tavi Gevinson, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Natasha Lyonne.
Around that same time, Lesley also had a role in my own closest friendship. If I scroll back far enough on Instagram, I can find the short videos of my college best friend and me, lying on my bedroom floor, smoking and belting the lyrics to “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” in each other’s faces. I recall us being saddened by our university town and the endless cycle of Confe
A personal tribute to the late pop star
One nighttime in 1970, after dancing at one of the many gay bars in New York City at that time, two gorgeous young women are making their way home through Central Park, where they stop to have their first kiss.
They’re hot for each other, maybe even in love, but there are no thoughts that night of a future. They couldn’t know then that time would separate them and bring them back together to disseminate their lives for 32 years. There are no thoughts that night of the dangers that lesbians often meet walking along the street together. There are no thoughts that night at all. Just two people in the throes of passion, made dizzy by that smooch, having a moment of reckless pleasure. A moment interrupted by sirens and the police who are about to haul them off to jail for the crime of existence two women kissing. Until one of the officers recognizes one of the women. “You’re Lesley Gore! I love your music.” And he lets them go.
Not so accommodating is the owner of a club where Lesley has been booked to perform. After she finishes her set, he shows up with Dobermans and refuses to pay her because she is a woman loving woman. He threatens to sic the dogs on her if she ever
admitted that she's a lesbian. She stated that she adorable much
realized in her 20s that she was gay, and also acknowledged she's had a
female spouse for 24 years.
Hmm. I'll never be able to hear to "It's My Party" in the same way
again...
Although it probably wasn't exactly a secret, Lesley Gore has publicly
admitted that she's a female homosexual. She stated that she pretty much
realized in her 20s that she was gay, and also acknowledged she's had a
female partner for 24 years.
Hmm. I'll never be proficient to listen to "It's My Party" in the alike way
again...
did a remake of this without changing the lyrics?
Maybe he knew something? Maybe Bobby was Bobbie?
Tamara
'60s. The "girl group" sound was done much better in the late '70s by
Debbie Harry and Blondie --- by taking the '60s sound and adding an
overdos