NEWS.- This week has left us Lesly Gore victim of cancer at 68 years. The news of his death was given by the one who has been his partner for 33 years, the jewelry designer Lois Sasson. Lesly decided to publicize her relationship in the 2005, a documentary in which she recognized that she already had an attraction for women when she studied English and American Literature at Sarah Lawrence University in the 60 decade. But the whirlwind in which fame turned his life did not leave him, in his own words, time to analyze his true feelings.
Beyond her personal life, Lesly Gore was a true feminine icon at a time when American society was taking a transcendental turn. In 1963 it went up to number one of the lists with "It's my party" and when he was just 16 years old, he turned a pop song into a real youth anthem. Thousands of teenagers identified with her sweet girl appearance and with the lyrics of a song that spoke of the tear of unrequited love. "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to". A myth was born.
But Lesly Gore was destined to represent something beyond the amorous swings of youth. If her first success reinforced the idea of the submissive and dependent girl who only expects a boy to marry, what came later would become another hymn, but this time feminism. Her own internal dilemma broke out in a few verses that stuck in the macho society of the time more than some slogans of the feminist movement. The subject recorded it in 1964 and its title was "You do not own me"You are not my owner (I am free and I want to love freely, to live my life the way I want). Just a few days of recording gave birth to two minutes, which contributed to changing the mindset of the women of her time as much or more than the numerous treatises on the female condition that were published in that period.
Lesly Gore has embodied in her life the change that she brought about with her work and leaves us, in addition to her music, the memory of a look that transcended age to transform beauty into something much deeper and more attractive.
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