Dear Allies - Stop Using Gay As An Insult

[Saviolo]

9. As I said above

Disco arose primarily out of black and queer spaces, and the topics were frequently about those communities living on the edge (such as Donna Summer's amazing Bad Girls

And that made straight white males uncomfortable at a time when being gay or being black was still not accepted. Being gay was even illegal in the USA. Bad Girls (the album) came out in '79, and the Stonewall Riots were only 10 years before. Being gay was still defacto illegal in many ways in the United States. The reason that homosexuals were considered a security risk during the Cold War (mostly 50's to 60's) was that gay men were still closeted because they would lose their jobs, their families, and potentially be imprisoned if they were outed, so Russian spies would exert pressure on gay men working in government for secrets in exchange for not ruining their lives.

In much of the USA, it was illegal for interracial couples (at the time, usually meaning white/black) to marry until the late 60's.

There is a strong undercurrent of anti-gay and racist sentiment behind "Disco Sucks."