We WILL Survive

If you're gay, grew up in the 70's, have ever turned on a radio or been to a wedding or bar mitzvah in the last 40 years you're familiar with Gloria Gaynor, the disco diva whose 1978 megahit I Will Survive became the anthem of emancipation for anyone who's ever been in a shitty relationship, your coworker in accounting who busted out some smoking hot hair whipping moves and danced, danced, DANCED like nobody was watching at last year's Christmas party, and every queen who ever had to fight the white, heterosexual patriarchy for a spot next to a shirtless go-go dancer on the dancefloor of life.  Gloria became something of a gay icon, scoring hits with Never Can Say Goodbye and I Am What I Am before she turned to Christianity and her career fizzled into a series of nostalgia appearances at county fairs and casinos like the Morongo Casino Resort just off the 10 on the way to Palm Springs, but now she's back from outerspace to celebrate I Will Survive's induction into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry with a dance party in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson building, just in time to remind us that even in the dark ages of a fascist Trump regime, with strength, persistence, common decency and the courage to resist, we WILL survive.