Why are gays associated with disco and smart-a** punks of later generations always mocking disco and anything associated with it, claiming it to be gay? The actors on the movie weren't gay, in fact very homophobic and alpha, neither were most of the people at the disco.
shareThey weren't homophobic, they just didn't like gays.
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Yogi Berra
They weren't homophobic, they just didn't like gays.
A phobia is a fear of something. Most people who are anti homosexual aren't afraid of them, they just don't like their "lifestyle".
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
More accurate to say that most people who are vehemently anti-homosexual are that way because they themselves are gay. This is a very common human trait. One rarely hates something with a passion unless they see, and hate, it within themself first. Which, if you think about it, justifies the term homophobia. The fear isn't directed at other gay people, it's directed inward; a fear that deep down, you are what you've been taught it's wrong to be. Just look at how many famous anti-gay politicians and preachers have been outed as gay over the years.
shareI grew up in the blue collar New York suburbs in neighborhoods similar to Tony Manero's. And disco was practically taboo. Most of the neighborhood kids said it was for "gay guys" and Black guys". The words they used were "f@ggots" and "n!ggers". Most guys wanted to act and look tough. And disco didn't sound tough. Any music that sounded a little funky was labeled as disco.
shareI don't know black guys are usually pretty tough. I guess they can get away with listening to disco LOL
shareI think dancing is more popular and accepted in the Black communities.
shareThey also tolerate falsetto more than whites, that is guys singing in a ultra high voice kind of like Frankie Valli or with groups like the delphonics.
shareGuess you people never watched American Bandstand...Disco was the rage for the average American white teen..
shareThe main reason the rock guys didn't like Disco was that most of the rock guys couldn't dance or had stopped dancing in the 1970s. Rock was originally dance music but by the 1970s had turned into just head-shaking and toe-tapping music for stoned people. Their girlfriends wanted to dance but there was rarely much of a dance, only intellectual stimulation or vulgar party-animal barfology. So their girlfriends and sisters would gravitate towards the more suave and charming Disco guys and go dancing and then leave them and their whole "rock" clan with it behind. This really pissed them off and started the whole "Disco Sucks" and "Disco is Only for Homos" backlash. I think when Rod Stewart did that whole "Blondes Have More Fun" disco album, that was the final straw, since so many of their women loved Rod Stewart and now Stewart had legitimized Disco! lol A lot of it did suck, but so did a lot of rock. I guess rock has a higher percentage of music that doesn't suck and funk & New-Wave & Reggae and Punk are somewhere between rock and disco, and disco, country and rap are the bottom of the barrel in my book but still have some great music that doesn't suck, some baby that's not drowning in bathwater. I clearly remember that even in junior high it got to the point where some kids would dismiss the entire Pink Floyd "The Wall" album, which is a masterpiece, as "disco garbage," (lol) just because ONE song, the big hit "Another Brick in the Wall," had a disco beat behind it. The music on Saturday Night Fever doesn't suck, that's for sure, whether or not it's got a Disco beat behind it.
By the way, "The Bee Gees" were the favorite music group of the king of all macho actors, Steve McQueen. He especially loved the song "Staying Alive," because it reflected his own experiences during struggling actor days in 1950's NYC. The music had changed, but the struggles were the same.
LOL No, it wasn't. Maybe with the chicks, but certainly not with the guys. Judging the average American teen by Bandstand.....too funny.
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Quote: "By the way, "The Bee Gees" were the favorite music group of the king of all macho actors, Steve McQueen."
You do realize Steve McQueen's demeanor was aggressive bisexuality mixed with misogyny and not traditional heterosexual machismo, right?
I was in the prime of my life during the disco era and loved every minute of it. i loved studio 54, the clothes, the thick bass lines, the music, dancing, the whole 9.
i was so infused in it i didn't realize there was such detestation and the ' 70's wasn't an era of hate as it is now. now i remember disco demolition night in Chicago in 1979 that represented the end of disco but i didnt get the resentment until maybe 10-15 yrs ago thx partly to VS1.
what i came to realize is that this was the causation of non-disco acts, partially country & western acts envious of disco's dominance of the music charts. and this resentment carried over to the population that turned pll that didnt care one way or the other to side w/ of negativity.
i remember a guy of a popular country act of the time was asked why he hated disco. "b/c it promoted drug use, gays, black violence, alcohol abuse, and STD's.
isnt this a line from the '50's???????
Discos dominance of "the charts"? How many C&W songs made the Hot 100 or Casey Kassam before 1977? Disco sucked, then, it sucks now. Very few straight guys thought about disco the way you did, which is why it only lasted a couple of years.
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
I am a straight male born in 1973 and I have always loved disco. I can find songs and artists of pretty much ever music genre I like.
There certainly was an association with the gay community and disco. While I was too young to ever go to Studio 54, or at least try to get in, if you look at pictures you can see there was always a big gay presence. However, that was true of the NYC clubs in the 90s when the music played was techno. Every time I was at Limelight or Palladium there was always a big gay presence.
However, those who make fun of disco for being "gay" as simply just haters taking a cheap shot. I personally think most are secretly fans of disco but too insecure and fear it would be a black mark on their man card. Funny thing is the 70s party we had every year in college was one of the premier parties of the year.
The 70s were so much more than the year disco was popular.
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
It wasn't just later generations that mocked disco, there were plenty of us back then that mocked it when it came out, because disco real does suck.
The only reason most straight guys went to the disco was to pick up chicks and slow dance with them. The only one in the group that danced was Tony, mainly because the mincing moves of disco dancing make you look like you're light in the loafers.
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Because disco music was appropiated by white, straight America. As usual.
shareWhat does being white have to do with anything? You seem to have a fascination with race it seems.
shareWhite people profited by an art form created by minorities. They are also responsible for the death of disco.
shareDid they profit merely because they were white or did they just happen to coincidentally be white? There is a huge difference. Also weren’t there white disco artists? Were minorities not allowed to profit from it? Were the asserted oppressed Disco artists you speak of not smart enough to read the contracts they signed? Did the white producers you speak of violate their contracts? What are you basing all of this on? Are you saying that only minorities are allowed to profit from disco music? If I said only white people could benefit from heavy metal (the overwhelming majority of heavy metal artists are white and the first heavy metal band: Black Sabbath were also white, by your logic white people built heavy metal) I’m sure that wouldn’t go over well with you.
Get off your pedestal, kid and get over yourself. You are not even 1/10th as smart or as virtuous as you think you are
Maybe you should do your research about black artists and the industry. It's all basic knowledge to any music fan.
Ironic that you insult me when you are so fucking clueless and just have a knee jerk reaction when you see the word white (interesting that you ignored the gay part) .
I see you can't answer my questions, I am therefore going to attribute all of your reckless accusations to race baiting. You may want to be prepared to defend your position better before you spout your mouth off, little man.
shareSays the idiot who doesn't know shit about music.
You're such a reactionary right wing cliché. You bore me. To the ignore list. Shoo.
I'll close with this: White privilege is real 😘.
LOL, more baseless speculation and assumptions, no one has any reason to take any of your nonsense seriously and I never said anything about the right wing. You and the other members of your cult have come nowhere close to proving this "white privilege" (and it seems you don't have any evidence either considering you couldn't answer my very straight forward and simple questions, instead you just threw a temper tantrum because you were actually asked to defend your position, something libtards aren't used to) although liberal privilege is very much a real thing.
Yes go crawl back to your safe space and continue to delude yourself in your own fantasy
#AllLivesMatter
Pay him no mind he is just your typical boot licker. Trust me I've had plenty of encounters with him. He is a special kind of ignorant.
shareBecause disco culture was very open to gays. Studio 54 was the pinnacle of all disco dance clubs and it was also very popular gay nightclub. Watch the Studio 54 documentary (2018) and the Halston (2021) bioflick on Netflix. Has some scenes that will explain this very well.
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