YMCA

[James A. Landau]

The latest in the McGreevy soap opera concerns the Surf, which is the local
minor-league baseball team here in Atlantic City.
"announcer Greg Maiuro [was fired] after he dedicated a between-innings
rendition of the song "YMCA" to McGreevey during a game on Aug. 17. The
1970s hit song by the Village People is widely considered a gay anthem."

Is it true that "YMCA" is a "gay anthem"?

If so, is it due to the words?  The music?  Some irrelevant social
association?

If it is indeed a gay song, why is it played so often in what should be
G-rated situations such as baseball games?  There can't be enough gay disk jockeys
in this country to play that song as often as it gets played.

    - Baffled in South Jersey   (aka Jim Landau)