The YMCA was the nation’s largest SRO provider, with more than 100,000 units nationwide at its peak. The Y served an incredibly diverse clientele, not only gay men fleeing oppression and seeking community, but frequent travelers like Martin Luther King, Jr. and journalist Dan Rather.

Former President Donald Trump took to social media to share a video of a supporter getting a tattoo featuring the former president’s autograph — all to the tune of the Village People’s song “Y.M.C.A.” The former president appeared to be trolling ...

Donald Trump ends Saudi-US investment forum with 'YMCA' Donald Trump ended his speech in Saudi Arabia with "YMCA," a song associated with the LGBTQ+ community, in a country where homosexuality is illegal.

In 1978, Village People, a disco band of six men deliberately stylized as sexy macho gay characters, released its album Cruisin’. The album featured “YMCA,” an upbeat disco track praising the Young Men’s Christian Association’s (YMCA) community ...

Victor Willis, lead singer of the music group the Village People, wrote a lengthy defense of President-elect Donald Trump using his hit song “Y.M.C.A.” and corrected the belief that the song was a “gay anthem.” Willis explained in his Facebook post ...

Kylie Minogue's Christmas single has been 10 years in the making.The 57-year-old singer's latest track Xmas is inspired by the Village People's 1978 party classic YMCA and she revealed the idea for the song first came to her in summer 2015.