LITA FORD Says She Left THE RUNAWAYS After Learng All Her Bandmat Were Gay

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Runaways star Virgia Gardner opens up about playg the first gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, reprentatn, ships, and who she thks is the mole. 

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LA FORD REVEALS SHE QU THE RUNAWAYS BEE HER BANDMAT 'WERE ALL GAY'

"Nobody [back then] me out and said, 'I'm gay,'" * the runaways gay *

When guarist La Ford first joed The Runaways the mid-'70s at the age of jt 16, she knew nothg about homosexualy, she told HuffPost Live last week. "Ford explaed to host Alyona Mkovski that she had never been exposed to bisexualy or homosexualy, so she "wasn't sure how to take .

""I didn't know anythg about [homosexualy], and was still the closet. Nobody [back then] me out and said, 'I'm gay, '" she told HuffPost Live. "When I found out that the girls were all gay the band, I wasn't sure how to take .

"I didn't know anythg about [homosexualy], and was still the closet.

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On Febary 23, Alyona Mkovski of HuffPost Live nducted an terview wh '80s hard rock queen La Ford. You n now watch the chat below. Speakg about her brief ex om THE RUNAWAYS forty years ago after learng that her bandmat were gay, La said: "This was the early '70s, mid-'70s... * the runaways gay *

Nobody [back then] me out and said, 'I'm gay, '" Ford explas the clip below. But beneath her sunny exterr, Karola, who is one of the first openly gay Marvel characters, grappl wh her inty—and Gardner unrstands the dissonance between appearanc and realy. It’s like I uld jt rip out a nunchucks route at a what I know of the ic book, Karola is the first gay Marvel character onscreen?

I also n’t totally speak to her sexualy on the show yet bee we want to be a surprise, but the ic books I believe she is one of the first openly gay, let’s see how we n dance around this… I assume that’s not somethg that’s not pletely elimated om her inty the is safe to assume. "All the male rock stars the mid-'70s were up there lookg gay, so I thought lets get some real breasts and vagas stead of men pretendg.

Speakg about her brief ex om THE RUNAWAYS forty years ago after learng that her bandmat were gay, La said: "This was the early '70s, mid-'70s, so I was not aware of homosexualy; I didn't know anythg about . And was still the closet; nobody me out and said, 'I'm gay' — nobody me out at that time. And when I found out that the girls were all gay the band, I wasn't sure how to take , and I didn't know what was.

THE RUNAWAYS’ VIRGIA GARDNER IS BREAKG SUPERHERO TABOOS AS MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * the runaways gay *

A list of all known Characters om Marvel Comics Runaways book seri or Hulu's web-adapted televisn seri, Runaways, who are eher lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. At one pot, La Ford origally left the band bee she didn’t like beg around “homosexualy.

LITA FORD SAYS SHE LEFT THE RUNAWAYS AFTER LEARNG ALL HER BANDMAT WERE GAY

They were gay and I wasn’t. My parents had never explaed to me that people are gay. " All of which should e as no surprise to fans who remember Townshend's 1980 solo h "Rough Boys" (above), which Rollg Stone lled "the most overtly homoerotic song his talog.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Maybe even the most overtly homoerotic song anyone's 1970s[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Alice Buhr, June Millgton, and Nickey Barclay of FannyThe rock band Fanny's importance the annals of popular mic nnot be overstated. A New York Tim review of the book claimed that durg the time of the Runaways both Wt, who died 2006, and Jett "were bisexual, if not gay. They were gay and I wasn't.

My parents had never explaed to me that people are gay, " said Ford. "[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]JobriathIn the early 1970s, the fluential Amerin glam rocker Jobriath beme the first out gay mician signed to a major label, and was no small affair.

VIRGIA GARDNER ON PLAYG THE RABOW-COLORED, LEVATG, GAY GIRL-NEXT-DOOR MARVEL'S RUNAWAYS

[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Freddie Mercury of QueenHow did fans not know Freddie Mercury was gay? It's not like he shied away om gay life his material.

" In 2001, at a Human Rights Campaign dner, the band's longtime bassist Chuck Panozzo announced that he is gay and had been livg wh HIV. Dpe pleas om FNM's handlers, Bottum me out as gay 1993.

[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Doug Pnick of Kg's X Christian rock band Kg's X had been kickg around for a few years by the time released s sophomore album, Gretchen Go to Nebraska, what many nsir to be s tone work, 1989.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* THE RUNAWAYS GAY

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It was me who found that rset,” says Currie om her home California’s San Fernando Valley, where the days she’s a <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">succsful chasaw artist</a>, but still livg the long shadow st by the world’s first all-female rock group to achieve meril succs.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _1lLN3 NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="382" height="573" srcSet="zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841, zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841"," zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="284" height="426" srcSet="zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_284%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841, zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_568%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":284,"urls":["zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_284%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841"," zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_568%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="240" height="360" srcSet="zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_240%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841, zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_480%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":240,"urls":["zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_240%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841"," zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_480%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841" srcSet="zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841, zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841"," zoom_0.109%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/42d1306bf101c2df4623692e01e16d2dc72841 2x"]}" width="382" height="573"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Former lead sger of The Runaways Cherie Currie.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU"></ce></p></figptn></figure><p>"<a href=">Suzi Quatro</a> had cracked the door open for , but the Runaways still had to ph our way . We did that wh three chords and an attu that we belonged up there on stage."</p><p>The Runaways were put together 1975 by Kim Fowley, a ge-dweller the mic bs who trawled all-ag clubs on Hollywood's Sunset Strip to fd members. He picked Currie for her look as much her sgg voice, which she adms was "terrible" sce she was gog through puberty at the time.</p><p>"I'm the ultimate pimp talent sut, who cid was time for women to do ," Fowley, who died aged 75 2015, <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>.</p><p>"All the male rock stars the mid-'70s were up there lookg gay, so I thought lets get some real breasts and vagas stead of men pretendg. I gus I'm a femist."</p><p>The Runaways were together barely three years, and the mic prs of the time ually wrote them off as sex ktens rather than ser micians. Yet the band lnched the reers of Rock <!-- -->&<!-- --> Roll Hall Of Famer <a href=">Joan Jett,</a> heavy metal queen La Ford and Bangl bassist Miki Steele.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5, width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":596,"urls":["width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5"," width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5, width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":540,"urls":["width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5"," width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/20f7012557110fba4a245f978b2d57e65248ccd5 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>From left, Joan Jett, Sandy Wt, Cherie Currie, Vicki Blue and La Ford 1977. Wt, whose feroc dmmg fuelled the band, died of lung ncer 2006, aged 47. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Barry Leve</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Currie now performs only ocsnally, but her fluence is hted at by the guts on her new album, <em>Blvds Of Splendor</em>: three-quarters of Guns N' Ros guarist Slash, bassist Duff and dmmer Matt Som (who also produced the set), Smashg Pumpks ontman Billy Can, actrs Juliette Lewis and Atralian sister act the Veronis.</p></sectn><asi class="_3kZQd _2H2M_"></asi></div><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR ArNEh" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><sectn class="_1WJ6z"><div class="_3Msim"><sectn class="_2Bg2I" id="endOfArticle"><p>Atralians were receptive to the Runaways' brand of glam-meets-punk girl power om the start, buyg more than 35,000 pi of their eponymo but album 1976 to give gold rerd stat.</p><p>Currie rells all five members beggg Fowley to tour them here. He wouldn't sprg for the airfar, but 1977 the Runaways did make to their biggt market, Japan, where Currie got the strongt sense of the band's impact.</p><p>"There were tonn of women the dience, and we were like a dream e to life for them. I thk women were a ltle opprsed Japan at that time," she says.</p><p>"But there's women all over the world my age who are still big Runaways fans. 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(This clud Currie, who had an abortn at 16 as a rult, and which Anrson welched on a promise to pay for.)</p><p>"It was a different time. Young girls wanted to be wh olr guys to make themselv feel olr; me turng around 40 years later and screamg, 'But he was 23!' don't empower anybody," she m.</p><p>Fowley, meanwhile, was after his ath <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">acced</a> by bassist Jackie Fox of plyg her wh quaalus and rapg her at a New Year's Eve party 1976, while Jett and Currie looked on (both <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nied</a> Fox's story).</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos3-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos3-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos3-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>There's no nyg Fowley uld treat the group terribly. He broke promis to keep up the teenaged girls' schoolg as they toured relentlsly; the band was forced to sue him for royalti; and he bombard them wh verbal and physil abe. Fox remembers him flgg a microphone stand at the group durg an early rehearsal.</p><p>"I hated that man," agre Currie. "But the thg is, hatg him was hurtg me. I had an epiphany that I had to five him."</p><p>After Fowley was diagnosed wh ncer 2008, he lled Currie and apologised to her a nversatn lastg hours.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3, width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":596,"urls":["width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3"," width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3, width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":540,"urls":["width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3"," width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/cd629a1c6a1b8464d3fd39e7a84183e3730cb3 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Dakota Fanng as Cherie Currie the bpic The Runaways.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU"> </ce></p></figptn></figure><p>"I had a son by then and I realised, you have to nsir the source. Kim had had a terrible fay upbrgg, he never had children, and sudnly he's alg wh five teenage girls, tryg to get them ready for the big bad world," she says.</p><p>"He ma mistak like we all do. But the man was brilliant; whout Kim Fowley, the Runaways would never have existed."</p><p>Currie even moved Fowley to her hoe to help re for him shortly before his ath om bladr ncer.</p><div class="yBuHJ"><iame allowfullscreen="" ameBorr="0" src="// tle="YouTube"></iame></div><p>It's the same fivg streak that mak her ambivalent about the <a href=">#metoo movement</a> agast sexual abe and harassment, spe all the exampl of both that she suffered durg her years the mic bs.</p><p>"I was a big supporter the begng, but #metoo went off the rails when they started suggtg that whether you get a slap on the ass or raped, 's all the same," says Currie, who was raped by her tw sister's ex-boyiend before jog the Runaways, and aga by a crazed fan after she left the group 1977.</p><p>"Y, there are bad appl and if anythg ever mak you unfortable, say somethg, but don't take to where you're screamg 'victim' all the time and nsirg men the enemy. I don't want to live a world where men are aaid to say to me, 'Gosh, you looked nice up there tonight'."</p><p><em>Cherie Currie's </em>Blvds Of Splendor<em> is streamg now.</em></p></sectn><div class="_3nTt0 _1-k7i" data-ttid="ArticleFooter"><div class="_30U_H"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleFooterLogTooltip" class="JSEcE uxhXB" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="">Save</span></button><div class="_2jGyo _3Xjsv" id="articleFooterLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="KNEjM" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj E-qQO" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="">Share</span></button></div></div><div class="_28OFW"><button class="DAADa" type="button">Prt article</button><div class="nEW5f _39ULh"><a class="_2SABC" href=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>License article</span></a></div></div></div><div class="_2ncsN UYykW" data-ttid="ArticleTags"><div class="_27M2O _2-Rvi" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver" role="alert"><hear class="_1slp0"><h2 class="_2iSlc">Introducg your <span class="_3jl0N">Newsfeed</span></h2><button class="_1aHhd" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver-close" type="button"><svg class="_1SIxy" aria-labelledby="newsfeed article driverclose-tle" focable="false" height="1em" aria-label="Close" role="img" width="1em"><tle id="newsfeed article driverclose-tle">Close .

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