Re: Kashka - what is a "gay" song?

[mandorallen@st1.vuw.ac.nz]

In article <KTISGOD>, jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.EDU (Jeffrey C. Burka) writes:

> [...uninteresting stuff about Kashka deleted...]
> Why is it so hard to comprehend that this is a valid (and, IMNSO opinion,
> the only possible correct) reading of the lyrics?  It isn't as if KaTe
> hasn't done other "gay" songs...don't forget "Moving" (for Lindsay Kemp)
> and "Eddie the Queen" (from the Cathy Demos).

Yipes! "Moving", a "gay" song? Tell us more. Your theory seems to be: "L. Kemp
is gay [which I, personally, never heard before], KaTe wrote it for him there-
fore it's a gay song". What is a "gay song"? Is it a song about gay people?
Is it a song expressing pro-gay sentiments? If the former, who cares? If the
latter, "Moving" doesn't seem very much so to me. I mean "Touch me, hold me,
how my open arms ache"? I fail to see what's so specifically gay about that.
Explain to us your reasoning, but carefully - "Moving" was the first Katesong
I ever heard, and if I don't like what you say about it I may just cleave your
gizzard in twain.
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