The songwriter behind the smash hit pop song YMCA has said his wife will sue anyone who refers to the song as a gay anthem.

In a post on Facebook on Monday, the Village People’s Victor Willis also defended Donald Trump’s use of the song on the campaign trail.

Willis, who appeared as the policeman in the song’s music video, wrote: “Come January 2025, my wife will start suing each and every news organisation that falsely refers to YMCA, either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story, that YMCA is somehow a gay anthem because such notion is based solely on the song’s lyrics alluding to elicit [sic] activity for which it does not.”

Willis claimed there was a “false assumption” that YMCA was a gay anthem because his bandmates were homosexual, as well as the Young Male Christian Associations being considered somewhat of a gay hangout.

The singer said the famous line “You can hang out with all the boys” was “simply 1970s black slang for black guys hanging out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that”.