When the song turned 40 in 2021, gay.it, Italy’s primary queer-culture online magazine, christened it as the “rainbow anthem par excellence.” Much like Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day,” Eugenio Montale’s “Ripenso al tuo sorriso,” Marianne Rosenberg’s “Er gehört zu mir,” and many other poems and songs we’re clearly forgetting, the lyrics easily apply to any gender, and the great emotional impact of the melody and Goggi’s interpretation locates it squarely in the tradition of gay anthems like “Strong Enough,” “I Will Survive,” “Let It Go”/“Show Yourself,” and even “Golden.”