Fans have been encouraging disco icon Gloria Gaynor to “walk out the door” of the upcoming Kennedy Center Honors, but it has come to light that the “I Will Survive” singer has financially supported Republican causes for several years.

A report from MediasTouch disclosed that, according to FEC records, Gaynor contributed nearly $22,000 to right-wing politicians starting in 2023, including candidates such as Mike Johnson, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Marsha Blackburn. Gaynor — whose donations were recorded under her birth name Gloria Fowles — consistently processed these contributions through WinRed, a Republican fundraising platform.

FEC records do not indicate any evidence that Gaynor donated directly to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.

Billboard has contacted Gaynor’s representatives for a statement.

This revelation comes just two weeks after Gaynor was named an honoree for the upcoming 2025 Kennedy Center Honors. The singer — along with fellow honorees KISS, George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, and Michael Crawford — will be among the first recipients of this prestigious award since President Donald Trump took control of the institution by dismissing several board members and appointing himself as chairman.

After Gaynor was announced as an honoree for this year’s event, many fans urged the singer — who is widely regarded as a gay icon due to her enduring anthem “I Will Survive” — not to accept the honor or attend the ceremony in protest of Trump’s treatment of the LGBTQ+ community. One such fan was The View‘s Ana Navarro, who emphasized the twice-impeached president’s attacks on “the rights and history of women, people of color, and LGBTQ” in her appeal for Gaynor to decline the award.

Gaynor has consistently refrained from defining her political affiliations in the past. In a 2017 address to the Library of Congress, for instance, Gaynor asserted that she is “not a political person” and that she was “not about to really become political.”