Dancing Queen

Dancing Queen 

ABBA

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life

See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen

Friday night and the lights are low

Looking out for the place to go

Where they play the right music, getting in the swing

You come in to look for a king

Anybody could be that guy

Night is young and the music's high

With a bit of rock music, everything is fine

You're in the mood for a dance

And when you get the chance...

You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life

See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen

You're a teaser, you turn 'em on

Leave them burning and then you're gone

Looking out for another, anyone will do

You're in the mood for a dance

And when you get the chance...

You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life

See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen

 I love ABBA. You can always sing along to their music. Since the release of "Dancing Queen," it has been adopted by the LGBT community, and remains one of the most ubiquitous "gay anthems." I had a host of gay anthems I could have chosen from, including "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga, or a classic like "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" sung by Judy Garland, but since I'd chosen three disco songs, I chose to stick with disco.

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, forty-seven years ago today, riots broke out at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. If you don't know much about the Stonewall Riots or you just want to refresh you memory, click on this link (STONEWALL) and you'll be taken to a series of blog posts that emerged from a paper I once wrote on the subject. We've come a very long way since 1969.