Love to Love You, Donna Summer (HBO) is an intimate look into the life of an artist who was much more than a 'figurehead for a movement.'
Williams said they organized the movie into the three phases of Summer’s life, as he saw them: Her career beginnings in Germany, when she started in a stage version ofrecording; her late-‘70s imperial era; and finally, her settling into a domestic life in the ‘80s, as she raised Sudano and her sisters, Mimi and Amanda.
What actually happened is still somewhat vague—Summer spent a lot of time in the wake of the outrage talking about what shesay. She denied calling gay people “sinners” or saying that AIDS was divine punishment. What is canon, according to the documentary, is that she, at some point after becoming more religious in the early ‘80s, made a comment in a concert along the lines of, “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
, around the 7:50 mark, Summer recounts a back-and-forth with gay fans after a concert, from which she says the “rumors” came.Anof someone who supposedly witnessed the same exchange had her agreeing to pray for a concertgoer with AIDS, but also attributing gays’ contraction of the disease to a “reckless lifestyle.” “She never condemned him, but did ask that he turn his life to Jesus,” said the anonymous source.
For Sudano’s part, she said she was unaware of the controversy as a child. “My truth and my sisters’ truth was that we experienced nothing but love from the gay and queer community and vice versa,” she said. “They were always an active part of our lives, you know, on a daily basis. But then also the fans and, you know, any“If you understand who my mother was, you know that she was a person of love and generosity of spirit, of gifts. She loved people,” Sudano added.
Ultimately, for Sudano, the experience of making a doc on her mother was, in fact, healing. “There were a lot of tears some days. There were certain revelations and conversations that really brought up a lot,” she said. “But I’m so happy that I was able to have them.” And she also relished setting the record straight on a real visionary artist who’s sometimes dismissed for rooting her work in the under-appreciated genre of disco.
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