Fans were urging disco star Gloria Gaynor to “walk out the door” of the upcoming Kennedy Center Honors, but it turns out the “I Will Survive” singer has offered her financial backing to Republican causes for the last few years.

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

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

Billboard has reached out to Gaynor’s representatives for comment.

The revelation comes just two weeks after Gaynor was announced as 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 to receive the prestigious award since President Donald Trump took over the institution by firing a number of board members and appointing himself as the chairman.

After Gaynor was announced as an honoree for this year’s honors, many fans spoke up asking the singer — who is widely considered a gay icon thanks to her perennial anthem “I Will Survive” — not to accept the honor or attend the ceremony out of protest for Trump’s mistreatment of the LGBTQ+ community. One such fan was The View‘s Ana Navarro, who highlighted the twice-impeached president’s attacks on “the rights and history of women, people of color and LGBTQ” in her plea for Gaynor to not accept the award.

Gaynor has repeatedly declined to define her political affiliations in the past. In a 2017 address to the Library of Congress, for example, Gaynor insisted that she is “not a political person” and that she was “not about to really become political.”