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Why 'YMCA'?

Why 'YMCA'?

The camp paradox of The Village People, Trump - and the US

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Jan 22, 2025
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I stayed at the YMCA.

I was a bit short on my dough, and the rates were seriously competitive for early noughties Manhattan, which I was visiting, so I put my pride on the shelf. But in truth, I mostly stayed at NYC’s West Side YMCA, (on t’other side of Central Park from Trump Tower), because the historic, horny, hilarious ‘YMCA’ sequence in the 1980 Vil…

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