Love To Love You Donna Summer

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The Summer documentary coincides with the 11-year anniversary of her death from lung cancer at age 63.

Love to Love You: Donna Summer is a music doc as oral history, crafted and told by the folks who knew its subject best while still longing to know more. But it also tracks the mechanisms of starmaking, the highs and lows of which really haven’t changed that much in the five decades since Summer was first crowned the “Queen of Disco.”


How Donna Summer angered her gay fans

Following a thriving career that populated dance floors across the country with pulsing hits such as “Hot Stuff,” “McArthur Park” and her iconic pairing with Barbra Streisand, “No More Tears (Enough is Enough),” Summer returned to her religious roots.

“That little church girl was foundational to who she was,” Bruce Sudano says.

After Summer allegedly made the comments during a concert that “It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” and implied that AIDS was “God’s punishment” on gay people, a community that had a kinship with the singer felt betrayed.

One of Summer’s bodyguards remembers angry fans disrupting a show of Summer’s art in Chicago, followed by a stream of concert cancellations.

Summer later denied making the comments, but for many, it was an empty gesture.