I Was Born This Way - The Book

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Carl Bean has written a book.


Archbishop Carl Bean's "I was Born This Way: A Gay Preacher's Journey"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061102864.html

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061102864.html

Flute sighting: 0:18

Washington Post:

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Archbishop Carl Bean's "I was Born This Way: A Gay Preacher's Journey"


Sunday, June 13, 2010
I WAS BORN THIS WAY
A Gay Preacher's Journey Through Gospel Music, Disco Stardom, and a Ministry in Christ
By Archbishop Carl Bean with David Bitz
Simon & Schuster. 264 pp. $24

During the heyday of disco, it's doubtful that every majestically coiffed, leisure-suited, tightly slacked gentleman dancing to Carl Bean's 1977 hit "I Was Born This Way" recognized the song as an early homo-positive nightclub anthem.


-- Justin Moyer

Ya, there's something hard to decipher about the oft-repeated, heavily-masked lines:

I'm happy.
I'm carefree and I'm Gay .
Yes I'm Gay.

especially when blasted out of speakers at head pounding decibels . (tongue out)

( perhaps some leisure-suited, tightly slacked gentlemen might've been too smashed to notice ... maybe that's what he means. )

I'm hoping there's some real disco era reflections in this book ( ??) about this song .... (??)

and particularly why Motown took such an interest in it ... with two attempts at putting it across through two separate projects.

(seriously--what's up with that ???)

The first time was with an artist named Valentino on their short lived GAIEE label (!!!) no less .




This record encapsulates what was emerging at the time: this new found gay power and the expression of it that disco gatherings were providing .


*****

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Just is time for Gay Pride, here's a review with a few more details....

http://www.afterelton.com/print/2010...his-way-review