Disco icon Gloria Gaynor has revealed in a latest interview that she doesn’t establish as a feminist.
“The largest false impression about me? Hmm,” she advised Metro. “It might be harmful to say this, however… that I’m a feminist.”
Within the interview, Gaynor defined that her relationships with the boys in her life inform her rejection of the feminist label. “Individuals say it to me, ‘And because you’re a feminist…’ Erm, no. Probably not. I really like males… I grew up with 5 brothers, and I really like males.”
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She continued, “I really like males who know who they’re and are sturdy sufficient to take their place, but additionally sturdy sufficient to acknowledge a lady’s strengths and who’re capable of enable her to train these strengths and understand that we’re to be companions and never opponents.”
The 81-year-old singer’s rationalization suggests she might have a “false impression” of her personal about feminism, which is broadly outlined by an finish objective of attaining social, financial, and political equality amongst all genders. Her feedback look like related to unfavourable stereotypes, reasonably than the broader intention of feminists to realize equal rights and a harmonious coexistence.
This stance is especially confounding on condition that Gaynor’s greatest hit, “I Will Survive,” is about regaining self-respect following heartbreak, and additional refusing to let the person who wronged her again into her life.
“You’re the one who tried to harm me with goodbye/ Suppose I’d crumble?/ You assume I’d lay down and die?/ No, not I, I’ll survive,” she sings on the 1978 disco monitor. The tune was additionally hailed as a queer anthem of resistance and liberation throughout the AIDS epidemic of the Eighties.
Gaynor is enjoying a handful of reveals all through 2025, principally in Europe (get tickets right here). Her final album, Testimony, was launched in 2019 and received a Grammy for Finest Roots Gospel Album.
