Italian Disco Pill: Raffaella Carrà’s “Luca”
Italy’s first explicitly and mainstream gay anthem appeared on primetime TV in 1978.
It’s 1978 and a cha cha cha groove undergirds the plight of a woman whose boyfriend left her for another guy. When she first introduced the song during her own variety show Ma Che Sera, she first emerged in the orchestra. Clad in a crimson gown with a hint of shoulder pads and wing-like motif on the bustier, she slowly made her way to the stage, stoppin…