Singing from experience, eh…?! [/Freud]
https://www.thekinks.info/latest/lola/?returnpage=/#info
The track ‘Lola’, written by Ray Davies, allegedly details a romantic encounter between a young man and a possible trans-gender person whom he meets in a club in Soho, London
‘Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
La-la-la-la Lola
Well I left home just a week before
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola
La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Davies#Personal_life
Davies has been married three times and has four daughters
Ray is clearly secure in his masculinity.
Are you, OP…?!
Yet, when this song was initially released in 1970, do you know what the biggest controversy was which meant Ray Davies had to change the lyrics for the re-release of that single, certainly for it to be played/performed by The Kinks on the UK’s biggest radio/TV broadcaster on Radio 1/”Top of the Pops”?:
‘I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola’
When the last part of that had to be changed to ‘Cherry Cola’ because of the BBC’s strict rules on advertising.
If attitudes were different decades ago, what’s your excuse for being so bigoted now?