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NewTime
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07 Feb 2017, 10:23 pm

Do you like that song?



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07 Feb 2017, 10:25 pm

Not sure I know the song, perhaps adding a youtube link would help.



Yes, it's a lovely song.


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07 Feb 2017, 10:26 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbYcte4ZEgQ



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07 Feb 2017, 10:55 pm

I love it because it's so LGBT positive.


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08 Feb 2017, 3:44 am

i thought you were gonna come out, here.

dang! i was misled. :drunken:


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09 Mar 2017, 2:23 am

I like it


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09 Mar 2017, 7:25 am

Its a great song.

Its an LBGT anthem.

But anyone can take inspiration from it whether they are LBGT, or not.



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09 Mar 2017, 7:42 am

I can also take it from an autistic perspective. Did the singer (who was she again? Summers? Ross?) mean for it to be an LGBT song? It was the 80's (so I think) when the movement was slowly gaining popularity.


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09 Mar 2017, 1:05 pm

It was Dianna Ross.

Probably the title was a deliberate double entendre.

Debutantes have "coming out parties" (like sweet 16 parties).

But the term for a closet gay going public about being gay was already "coming out of the closet". So the lyrics were probably written so it could be taken either way ( as a straight girl, or as a gay person of either gender, being the narrator of the song).