Donna Summer passed away today

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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

Donna was a great singer although I did not buy her music.It doesn't surprise me that she thought her cancer was brought on by 9/11 'dust".She had some odd notions about those kind of things.Those of us who are old enough can recall when she said that AIDS was God's judgement on homosexuals.Pretty odd statement coming from the undisputed queen of disco.at any rate God rest her soul.

I think that allegation needs to be astericked since no actual recording exists of her saying this. I suspect she raised the dander of a lot of gay people when she publically became a born-again Christian. The backlash was inevitable. In any case, regardless of whether any of this is true, Donna threw herself into becoming a major supporter of the GLBT community towards the latter half of her career. Whether this was motivated by the fact that her popularity fell off of a cliff is debatable. But she was clearly horrified that these words were attributed to her and that people were deeply hurt.

Anyway, whether she said these words or not, all is forgiven now. She proved through her actions that she didn't mean any of those words (that may or may not have issued from her lips).