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• LA FORD REVEALS SHE QU THE RUNAWAYS BEE HER BANDMAT 'WERE ALL GAY'
• LA FORD QU THE RUNAWAYS WHEN SHE REALIZED HER BANDMAT WERE LBIANS"NOBODY [BACK THEN] ME OUT AND SAID, 'I'M GAY,'"BY DAN AVERYMARCH 1, 2016/9:17 PMBY DAN AVERYMARCH 1, 2016 / 9:17 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"LA FORD QU THE RUNAWAYS WHEN SHE REALIZED HER BANDMAT WERE LBIANS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-03-02T02:17:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-03-02T02:17:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PNEERG ROCKER LA FORD STOPPED BY HUFFPO LIVE TO DISCS HER NEW MEMOIR, WHICH TAILS HER LIFE WH THE SEMAL FEMALE ROCK BAND THE RUNAWAYS AND HER SUCCSFUL SOLO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORD, 57, REVEALED THAT WHEN SHE REALIZED MOST OF HER BANDMAT WERE LBIANS, SHE WAS SHOCKED AND LEFT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"FIRST I FOUND OUT THAT SANDY, THE ONE I HAD BOND WH THE MOST, WAS A LBIAN," WR FORD LIVG LIKE A RUNAWAY. "THEN I FOUND OUR THAT CHERIE WAS MSG AROUND WH JOAN. I WAS SO EAKED OUT THAT I QU THE BAND."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS A TEEN THE 1970S, SHE HADN’T REALLY BEEN EXPOSED TO THE LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT [HOMOSEXUALY], AND WAS STILL THE CLOSET. NOBODY [BACK THEN] ME OUT AND SAID, 'I'M GAY,'" FORD EXPLAS THE CLIP BELOW. "WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT THE GIRLS WERE ALL GAY THE BAND, I WASN'T SURE HOW TO TAKE . I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, FORD ME TO HER SENS A FEW WEEKS LATER AND REJOED THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, 'S REALLY NO BIG AL, THAT I SHOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT THAT,'" SHE SAYS. "I HOPED TO GOD THAT THEY'D LL ME BACK AND GET ME BACK THE BAND. I WAS THKG THAT THEY WOULD GO ON TO ACHIEVE SUPERSTAR STAT AND THAT I WOULD JT BE STG AT HOME AND DOG NOTHG.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THANK GOD THEY LLED ME BACK,” SHE ADDS. “THEY SAID, 'LA, WE N'T FD ANYBODY THAT ULD PLAY GUAR LIKE YOU. PLEASE E BACK.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORD, WHO WENT ON TO H THE CHARTS WH "CLOSE MY EY FOREVER" AND "GOTTA LET GO," SAYS SHE DON’T THK JETT OR THE OTHER WOMEN KNEW THE REASON SHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHEN SHE RETURNED, THERE WAS NO DRAMA ABOUT ANYONE’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE JT RRIED ON, YOU KNOW, BEE WAS NO BIG AL. BUT TO ME WAS, BACK THEN, AND JT REALLY THREW ME FOR A LOOP. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE DO THAT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}H/T: HUFFPO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• THE RUNAWAYS’ VIRGIA GARDNER IS BREAKG SUPERHERO TABOOS AS MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• LITA FORD SAYS SHE LEFT THE RUNAWAYS AFTER LEARNG ALL HER BANDMAT WERE GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• VIRGIA GARDNER ON PLAYG THE RABOW-COLORED, LEVATG, GAY GIRL-NEXT-DOOR MARVEL'S RUNAWAYS

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

LA FORD QU THE RUNAWAYS WHEN SHE REALIZED HER BANDMAT WERE LBIANS"NOBODY [BACK THEN] ME OUT AND SAID, 'I'M GAY,'"BY DAN AVERYMARCH 1, 2016/9:17 PMBY DAN AVERYMARCH 1, 2016 / 9:17 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"LA FORD QU THE RUNAWAYS WHEN SHE REALIZED HER BANDMAT WERE LBIANS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-03-02T02:17:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-03-02T02:17:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PNEERG ROCKER LA FORD STOPPED BY HUFFPO LIVE TO DISCS HER NEW MEMOIR, WHICH TAILS HER LIFE WH THE SEMAL FEMALE ROCK BAND THE RUNAWAYS AND HER SUCCSFUL SOLO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORD, 57, REVEALED THAT WHEN SHE REALIZED MOST OF HER BANDMAT WERE LBIANS, SHE WAS SHOCKED AND LEFT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"FIRST I FOUND OUT THAT SANDY, THE ONE I HAD BOND WH THE MOST, WAS A LBIAN," WR FORD LIVG LIKE A RUNAWAY. "THEN I FOUND OUR THAT CHERIE WAS MSG AROUND WH JOAN. I WAS SO EAKED OUT THAT I QU THE BAND."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS A TEEN THE 1970S, SHE HADN’T REALLY BEEN EXPOSED TO THE LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT [HOMOSEXUALY], AND WAS STILL THE CLOSET. NOBODY [BACK THEN] ME OUT AND SAID, 'I'M GAY,'" FORD EXPLAS THE CLIP BELOW. "WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT THE GIRLS WERE ALL GAY THE BAND, I WASN'T SURE HOW TO TAKE . I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, FORD ME TO HER SENS A FEW WEEKS LATER AND REJOED THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, 'S REALLY NO BIG AL, THAT I SHOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT THAT,'" SHE SAYS. "I HOPED TO GOD THAT THEY'D LL ME BACK AND GET ME BACK THE BAND. I WAS THKG THAT THEY WOULD GO ON TO ACHIEVE SUPERSTAR STAT AND THAT I WOULD JT BE STG AT HOME AND DOG NOTHG.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THANK GOD THEY LLED ME BACK,” SHE ADDS. “THEY SAID, 'LA, WE N'T FD ANYBODY THAT ULD PLAY GUAR LIKE YOU. PLEASE E BACK.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORD, WHO WENT ON TO H THE CHARTS WH "CLOSE MY EY FOREVER" AND "GOTTA LET GO," SAYS SHE DON’T THK JETT OR THE OTHER WOMEN KNEW THE REASON SHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHEN SHE RETURNED, THERE WAS NO DRAMA ABOUT ANYONE’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE JT RRIED ON, YOU KNOW, BEE WAS NO BIG AL. BUT TO ME WAS, BACK THEN, AND JT REALLY THREW ME FOR A LOOP. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE DO THAT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}H/T: HUFFPO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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

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.

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

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?

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

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. 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.

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

At one pot, La Ford origally left the band bee she didn’t like beg around “homosexualy. 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. 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.

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

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.

[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.