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The American singer/songwriter and out Lesley Gore who has just died aged 68 will always be very fondly remembered for her big hits in the 1960s, which became some of the very first ‘gay anthems’.

Her infectious and popular songs that made her a worldwide success included It’s My Party (I Can Cry If Of I Want Too) recorded when she was just 16-years-old, and It’s Judy’s Turn to Cry, and You Don’t Own Me all had the most campest lyrics ever. In 1965, she appeared in the beach party beach party film ‘The Girls on The Beach’ in which she performed three songs: Leave Me Alone, It’s Gotta Be You and I Don’t Want to Be a Loser.

Lesley Gore composed songs for the 1980 movie ‘Fame’ for which she received an Academy Award Nomination, and she recorded her last album in 2005 entitled Ever Since. An out lesbian, who had been with her partner Lpis Sasson a jeweler designer for 33 years, Ms. Gore also hosted the PBS TV series In The Life which focused ion LGBT matters in 2004

The last words here however should be those of Lesley Gore who sang back then:

When I’m with my guy and he watches the pretty girls go by

Well it hurts so bad deep inside,

I wish that I could die

Not a word do I say

I just look the other way

Cause that’s the way boys are

That’s the way boys are

Lesley Gore (born Lesley Sue Goldstein,[ May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015)

by Roger Walker-Dack

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