Ok, here's what another band member (David Hodo) said in a Spin article.
“Y.M.C.A.” certainly has a gay origin. That’s what Jacques was thinking when he wrote it, because our first album [1977’s Village People] was possibly the gayest album ever. I mean, look at us. We were a gay group. So was the song written to celebrate gay men at the YMCA? Yes. Absolutely. And gay people love it.
Ok, here's what another band member (David Hodo) said in a Spin article.