From the Guardian’s live coverage: The Village People’s show-closer: “And finally, here’s the Village People, a band one is minded to tread carefully around these days, their singer Victor Willis having threatened to sue anyone who suggests their song YMCA is a gay anthem. Clearly it isn’t: what could be more innocent than a hymn to young men simply enjoying each other’s company, doing whatever they feel and hanging out with all the boys, unencumbered by the distracting presence of women; the fact that YMCAs were so notorious as cruising spots there are literally academic books devoted to the subject being entirely coincidental? And furthermore, nor was the rest of the Village People’s oeuvre, including Macho Man, Hot Cop, Fire Island and I’m A Cruiser. Let us pause for a moment and consider how terribly frustrating it must have been for the Village People to have their work so consistently, inexplicably and cruelly misinterpreted.