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twixnmix · 1 year

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Dolly Parton with the Village People during a party at Victoria Station following her concert at Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, 1979.

#dolly parton #the village people #randy jones #1979 #david hodo #felipe rose #glenn hughes #alex briley #1970s fashion #1970s music #seventies #lgbtq #pop culture

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soupy-sez · 10 months

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Village People – Can't Stop The Music (1980) [X]

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bluehairedspidey · 2 years

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#the village people #village people #david hodo #osha #mfw #meme crop #blog

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movie-titlecards · 1 year

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Can't Stop the Music (1980)

My rating: 5/10

What a weird, confusing movie, but I suppose some of the music is pretty good.

#Can't Stop the Music #Nancy Walker #Bronte Woodard #Allan Carr #Ray Simpson #David Hodo #Felipe Rose #Youtube

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likehephaestionwhodied · 11 months

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Hi! I saw your comment on leatherdaddies/leather/kink at pride and you mentioned how this type of masculinity isn't meant to be performed for a het audience, and removing that framework is essentially hollowing out this type of masculinity. (?) I've been looking into modern media portrayals of non hegemonic masculinity and I was wondering if you had some good intro sources for leather culture? Based on the info in that post I'm wondering if there's some bleed through with pop culture/TV and the modern pop cowboy/space western but I could just be jumping to conclusions. At any rate would sill love and appreciate any recs you would be able to give--if not, totally understand! Either way I love the info that you added to that post a lot!!

It's like you knew I didn't want to be working on my thesis and have come to save me.

Okay so, it really depends on what you want for like "sources for leather culture" because if it's leather culture as it exists today put on your tightest Levis, and your heaviest leather boots and go to the local gay bar on leather night and make friends (easier said than done I know I've always lived in rural America, also pls don't go gawk leathermen we can tell) But if you want historic sources that I can help you with better.

The two books I cite the most in my thesis when it comes to leather masculinity are 1. Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality by Geoff Mains and 2. The Leatherman's Handbook by Larry Townsend.

The first is much easier to get your hands on than the second. You can just by Urban Aboriginals on Amazon or Thriftbooks or bookshops, probably even your local gay bookstore if you have one, it's still in print. I have the third edition I love that book SO MUCH it was originally published in the early 80s, and I use it as a reflection of the "golden" age of Leather in the 1970s.

Unfortunately, The Leatherman's Handbook and The Leatherman's Handbook II are out of print. That is not to say you can't get your hands on them. I spent an obscene amount of money to buy the pair on ebay. But also, I once found a Lesbian SM reader in my school's library, so you might beable to get it though an interlibrary loan? or maybe a pdf exists?

Another useful text that I cite quite a bit is Leather Folk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice, edited by Mark Thompson. This is an anthology of essays written by, you guessed it, leatherfolk both gay men and others. (I am assuming because of the post that you are most interested in gay leathermen)

Regarding the rest of your post on pop-culture portrayals of non-hegemonic masculinity (I am assuming you are using that term in an academic "I've read R.W. Connell" way, if not RIP, sorry again I'm working my thesis the first chapter of which is very "I'm Read R.W. Connell") I have one thing to say:

I am 90% sure only three of these men are gay, that only three of these men are intimately aware of the costumes they are wearing. David Hodo, the construction worker, Randy Jones the Cowboy, and Glenn Hughes. I wish I could find the photo of the three of them in their costumes with one very important detail, a single button of their 501s is undone. If you are a gay man crusing in the 1970s you own a pair of levi 501s that are so tight you have to shimmy into them, and you leave one of the buttons undone to make your dick bigger. You can also just tell when they're dancing who understood the assaignment.

I give all this information because the village people have such a weird relationship with the gay community. I haven't done a lot of work with them specifically so I'm sure someone is gonna read this and know xyz. But these guys are named after the west village, where gay men lived in new york, and got their start preforming for gay men. the costumes they wear are of course different types of masculinity idealized in the gay community. Their songs (at least the first iteration of the village people) are usually about gay things. YMCA is of course about crusing, but "San Francisco" from their debut is even more overt along side "Go West," "In the Navy," and "macho man"

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I've inserted this video as a visual so when I say, "the three gay ones understand the assignment," you know what I mean, their performance is campy where, where the other two are missing that.

But deconstructing the Village people, or at least the three queerest ones takes an understanding of queer history. In the same way that the Leatherman is a "biker," the construction worker is not really a construction worker (this is not to say that Leathermen are not often bikers, they are) The construction worker is a "Clone" the promiscuous gay men of the 70s who wore Levi jeans, work boots, tight t-shirts, and flannel and solicited sex from other clones in public. Similarly, the cowboy might be a cowboy, but he might also be one of the hundreds of men who hung out at western-themed bars (closely related to leather) and are the prototype of the bear. All three of these particular queer masculinities resist the feminine archetype of queer men HOWEVER, when produced for mass conception, they are camped up.

I think that this would be an instructive place for you to start, I don't know that I can help with more modern pop-culture though.

#leather history #queer history

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blitz33 · 2 months

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[33] Blitz!

DAVID BOWIE MADE ME GAY (AND A GOD)

The thrust of a lightning bolt / tattooed on my inner right bicep / my favorite tool curls with me

Calculating, inculcating creations /Constituted of light en ligh ten ing

ALADDIN SANE ; KLAUS NOMI ; DAVID HODO’S CONSTRUCTION HAT ; ZEUS ; BLITZ! ; HARRY POTTER COMING OUT OF HIS CLOSET ; THE FACT THAT THE SKY IS AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT OF PARTICULATE THAT SCATTERS ALL COLORS AT ONCE, MUCH LIKE US PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHOSEN BLUE ONLY BECAUSE IT IS WHAT IS EXPECTED

when actually

There is the potential for a rainbow, always / operating under pressure it necessitates / an ostentatious measure

light en ing strikes and how could you deny you just saw a phenomenon / heard a full stadium / felt a tall god come

Oh, how we give you phenomenons.

THE VISION OF THE SKY EXPRESSING THE HUMIDITY OF FRUSTRATED CLIMATES ; THE DOME ABOVE BENDING IN REFRACTIONS

No distractions. This is absolute.

I find no reason for you to be afraid / Sure, the light is piercing, the / Edges sharp, but how

Could you

Deny

you are seeing gods express themselves. / you are seeing my arm extend toward you.

AA 6.14.23

Blitz'd bicep, courtesy of Lenny @stawb3rryfairyb0y

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dickvanas · 1 year

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Discogroep The Village People boos op Donald Trump

Muziekgroep Village People wil dat oud-president Donald Trump stopt met het inhuren van imitators om muziek van de groep te spelen tijdens evenementen. De manager van de groep stuurde een boze brief met die boodschap naar Joe Tacopina, de advocaat van Trump.

Aanleiding voor de brief is een optreden op het landgoed Mar-a-Lago van Trump. Een groep mensen gekleed als Village People speelde daar op 11 mei onder meer de hit Macho Man. Op sociale media gaan beelden rond van het optreden, waarop ook te zien is hoe Trump meedanst op de muziek. Daarop volgden beschuldigingen dat de discogroep Trump zou steunen. De oud-president kondigde in november aan opnieuw voor het presidentschap te gaan in 2024.

“We zijn overspoeld met berichten over het imitatieoptreden waarvan veel fans en een breder publiek ten onrechte geloven dat het ging om de echte Village People”, schrijft manager Karen Willis in de brief. „Het heeft voor verwarring gezorgd over waarom Village People zo’n optreden zou geven. Maar dat hebben wij niet gedaan.” Karen Willis is naast manager ook getrouwd met Victor Willis, de zanger van Village People.

Grens is overschreden

Trump heeft in de afgelopen jaren vaker liedjes als YMCA en Macho Man gebruikt tijdens verschillende evenementen. In de brief staat verder dat de bandleden in het verleden hebben ’getolereerd’ dat hun muziek werd gebruikt, maar dat met de combinatie van imitators een grens is overschreden.

Trumps advocaat Tacopina reageerde bij entertainmentwebsite TMZ dat hij „alleen zaken wil doen met de advocaat van de Village People, en niet met de vrouw van een van de leden.” Ook zei hij dat de leden van Village People „dankbaar moet zijn” dat hun naam dankzij Trump weer in de pers is verschenen.

Village People is een Amerikaanse discogroep die vooral in de late jaren zeventig van de 20e eeuw succesvol was. De groep is vernoemd naar Greenwich Village, een grote uitgaansbuurt voor homo's in New York waar de groepsleden vaak kwamen. Hun grootste hits worden nog vaak gehoord als feestmuziek.

In de oorspronkelijke bezetting bestond de groep uit David Hodo, Alex Briley, Felipe Rose, Victor Willis, Glenn Hughes (niet te verwarren met de gelijknamige hardrock-bassist) en Randy Jones. De groep, die gemanaged werd door de Franse componist Jacques Morali en diens zakenpartner Henri Belolo, stond bekend om zijn aanstekelijke poppy melodieën en suggestieve teksten, maar vooral om het uiterlijk vertoon van de groepsleden die waren gekleed als respectievelijk bouwvakker, soldaat (matroos in In the Navy), indiaan, politieman, motorrijder en cowboy. Hierdoor kreeg de groep bij wijze van camp een zekere plaats in de homoseksuele subcultuur.

Village People werd in 1977 opgericht nadat Victor Willis op de gelijknamige plaat had gezongen en er vraag naar optredens kwam. De grote populariteit van de groep kwam op een vreemde manier op gang: toen het lied In the Navy werd opgenomen bood de Amerikaanse marine aan een videoclip te financieren. Hiervoor werd groot marinematerieel gereserveerd. Toen de kranten er schande van spraken dat er zoveel overheidsgeld werd gespendeerd aan een videoclip, zag de marine van deze campagne af. Dit schandaal leverde de Village People zoveel publiciteit op dat het liedje meteen naar de top van de hitparade schoot.

Hoewel dit alles zich afspeelde in de tijd dat disco zijn belang als toonaangevende muziekstijl volledig had verloren (vanwege de Disco Sucks-actie), werden ook Macho Man, Go West en Y.M.C.A. enorme successen. Deze nummers waren, in tegenstelling tot de rest, geschreven door Victor Willis. Na de tournee van 1979 vertrok hij en daalde de populariteit van de groep.

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In 2017 verwierf Willis de licentierechten op de groepsnaam en formeerde hij zijn eigen Village People; sinds 2018 is hij de officiële naamseigenaar. Felipe Rose maakte dat jaar zijn solodebuut met een cover van Going back to my roots van Odyssey; het werd bekroond met een Native American Music Award. In november 2018 verscheen A Village People Christmas, het eerste studioalbum in 33 jaar.

De door Ray Simpson geleide groep werd omgedoopt tot Kings of Disco en trad in juli 2019 in Nederland op met violist André Rieu.

Op 3 augustus 2019 kwam Henri Belolo op 82-jarige leeftijd te overlijden. Drie maanden later, op 4 november, werd Á Village People Christmas heruitgebracht als Magical Christmas met twee extra tracks. Een single, Happiest Time of the Year, volgde 21 december. Op oudejaarsavond gaf de groep een concert op Times Square tijdens Fox's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey en verbrak het aanwezige publiek het record Y.M.C.A-dansen.

Op 21 april 2020 bracht Village People een nieuwe single uit; If You Believe werd hun eerste top 20-hit in Amerika in veertig jaar tijd. President Trump gebruikte Macho Man en Y.M.C.A. voor zijn (her)verkiezingscampagne; Victor Willis maakte hier op 9 juni nog bezwaar tegen, maar kwam daar 11 september gedeeltelijk op terug. Dit werd geparodieerd door Saturday Night Live in de uitzending van 24 oktober. Een week later maakten Willis en zijn groepsgenoten andermaal duidelijk wat zij ervan vonden dat Trump hun muziek voor zijn campagne gebruikte. Op 7 november 2020 won Trumps tegenstander, Joe Biden, de presidentsverkiezingen; de stemmers vierden dit door massaal de straat op te gaan en op Y.M.C.A. te dansen.

(Door Dick van As)

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newmusicradionetwork · 1 year

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Village People “Happiest Time Of The Year” for your Holiday

Village People is one of the most iconic music groups in the world. Their music has become part of the international songbook. The group’s hits are featured in dozens of major motion pictures, on Broadway, in commercials and in “Village People Party” slot machines. Of course, Y.M.C.A (along with its dance) is played at almost every party, wedding, bar mitzvah, and sporting event in the universe. It began in 1977 when producer Jacques Morali and his partner Henri Belolo, known collectively as Can’t Stop Productions, were recording a new album for their hit group the Ritchie Family, called African Queen and needed background singers. Horace Ott, the arranger/conductor who was working with them, suggested Victor Willis, a singer he was recording who also was performing in the Broadway musical The Wiz. After Willis completed background on the album, Morali approached him about another musical project he and Belolo were planning which turned out to be Village People. “I had a dream that you sang lead vocals on an album I produced, and it went very, very big,” Morali told Willis. “I have four tracks. I can’t pay you much right now but if you agree, I’ll make you a star.” Willis agreed and the rest is history. Those initial four tracks, San Francisco (You’ve Got Me), In Hollywood (Everyone’s a Star), Fire Island, and Village People were recorded by Willis with professional background singers and released as the debut album Village People in 1977. The album quickly climbed to the top of the dance charts and became an international hit. Demand for the “Village People” to appear in concert and on television shows like American Bandstand and Merv Griffin was great. The only problem… “Village People” was Victor Willis! So Morali, Belolo and Willis had to put together an actual group… and quick. Morali and Belolo had already met Felipe Rose who dressed as a Native American. They recruited him. Willis brought in Alex Briley, who he’d previously worked with in a musical. The quickly assembled original lineup appeared with Victor on American Bandstand was Mark Mussler (Construction Worker), David Forrest (Cowboy), Lee Mouton (Leatherman) and Peter Whitehead (nondescript). After that appearance, an ad was placed in a trade paper for ‘permanent’ members which read: Macho Types Wanted for World-Famous Disco Group — Must Dance and Have a Moustache. Randy Jones, Glenn Hughes and David Hodo answered the call. Casablanca Records and Filmworks, the group’s label, got behind their second album Macho Man with full promotion and marketing. Village People became an international phenomenon and quickly followed with their third album, the double-platinum Cruisin (which featured the blockbuster Y.M.C.A.). They embarked on a worldwide tour in 1979 to coincide with the release of their fourth album, Go West. The group has received many honors and awards, including the American Music Award for Favorite Musical Group, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. After Willis exited in late 1979, several singers took over as lead singer of the group, including Ray Stephens, Miles Jaye and Raymond Simpson (who served the longest). The group went on to star in the 1980 movie Can’t Stop the Music. Over the years, various renditions of the group have consistently toured the world along with original members Felipe Rose and Alex Briley including Ray Simpson, Jeff Olson (cowboy), Eric Anzalone (Biker), Mark Lee (Construction Worker), Bill Whitefield (Construction Worker), and James Newman (Cowboy). With hits like San Francisco/In Hollywood, Macho Man, Y.M.C.A., In the Navy and Go West, the group has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and continues to break records. In 2004 BMI recognized Y.M.C.A. as exceeding one million airplays. In 2017, Y.M.C.A. made UK’s Official Millionaires Chart – songs that have reached 1 million in combined sales/streams. For the 40th anniversary of the group, Victor Willis is back at the helm. Backed by a live band, Village People continues to thrill concert-goers around the world — as they did back in the day. Village People is: Victor Willis (Cop/Admiral), Angel Morales (Native American), James Kwong (Construction Worker), Chad Freeman (Cowboy), James Lee (G.I.), and James J.J. Lippold (Leatherman). Village People. The greatest disco group in the world. Magical Christmas is their first full length Christmas album. Now available. Additional Artist/Song Information: Artist Name: Village People Song Title: Happiest Time Of The Year Publishing: Ceres Music Group Publishing Affiliation: BMI Publishing Affiliation 2: BMI Album Title: Magical Christmas Record Label: Ceres Music Group Radio Promotion: Loggins Promotion Paul Loggins 310-325-2800 Contact Loggins Promotion Publicity/PR: Loggins Promotion Paul Loggins 310-325-2800 Contact Loggins Promotion Read the full article

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leatherman-love · 3 years

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Randy, David and Glenn 🖤

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themackenzieboydchronicles · 2 years

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On This Day. 4th March.

Top left: John Lennon 4th March 1966. John Lennon caused a major stir in the U.S by saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. He later apologised.

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Bottom Left: Englebert Humperdink (Gerry Dorsey) hit the number 1 spot in the UK charts with his song 'Please Release Me' in 1966. It remained at the top spot for six weeks.

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Right: Glen Hughes of The Village People died age 50 in 2001 of lung cancer. He was buried in his leather Jacket.