Nile Rodgers explains how he wrote Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out" as a gay anthem

In this video, writer/producer/performer Nile Rodgers explains how and why he wrote 'I'm Coming Out' (1980) for Diana Ross.

In 1979, he and his partner Bernard Edwards were hired by Diana Ross to produce her next album. While in the process of interviewing Ross to get a sense of the direction of the album he went to a nightclub known as a trans club, and noticed that there were at least seven Diana Ross impersonators there. — Read the rest