Gloria Gaynor clubs, and then on the Club Play chart in late 1983/early 1984. "I Am What I Am" became a gay anthem and made Gaynor a gay icon. Her 1986 album, "The Power of Gloria Gaynor", was almost entirely composed of cover versions of other songs that were popular at the time. Gaynor's career received a revitalizing spark in the early and mid 1990s with the worldwide disco revival movement. During the late 1990s, she dabbled in acting for a while, guest starring on "The Wayans Bros", "That '70s Show" (singing "I Will Survive"), and "Ally McBeal," before doing a limited
William J. Gaynor (fireboat) "William J. Gaynor"s hull. She had to call on a "wrecking tug" to open the "Sygna"s hatch before she could suppress the fire in the hold. On June 21, 1921, the "William J. Gaynor" was called to Barren Island in Jamaica Bay when a warehouse belonging to the United States Shipping Board was found to be ablaze. By the time the fireboat arrived land-based firefighters had been unable to prevent the fire from spreading to two of the Shipping Board's four derelict vessels. The freighters "Polar Bear" and the "City of Omaha" were also ablaze. The "William J. Gaynor" with