She bends genr clichés, scg dienc wh each breathtakg performance. k.d. lang—born on the Canadian prairie, exiled om Nashville’s untry-mic clique—has skyrocketed to pop stardom wh her sensuo platum album, Ingénue. Takg a break om her globe-hoppg, lang tells Llie Bens about growg up gay, animal rights, fdg her voice, and clowng around on a V.F. photo shoot wh Cdy Crawford.
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- THE INTERVIEW: GAY IN KD LANG ON WHY EVEN SHE IS BAFFLED BY OUR GENR-FLUID TIM
- JASON KENNEY THKS GAY STUNTS SHOULD BE OUTED. K.D. LANG ASKS HIM IF HE’S GAY.
THE INTERVIEW: GAY IN KD LANG ON WHY EVEN SHE IS BAFFLED BY OUR GENR-FLUID TIM
Twenty-five years ago the ia that an openly gay and very butch woman uld bee a pop idol was seismic. Now she n jt make her mic. * is kd lang gay *
I thk culturally had relevance beg sort of the person of the moment [who was] out and reprentg a part of the gay culture and fightg for equaly. I was jt out there as a champn of the gay muny, and the club scene at that time — bee of AIDS and all the homophobia that arose out of that awful perd history — seemed to be an important cultural vortex for g together.
But this is not the first time the genre has been subverted; 27 years ago, fan of soft tailorg and lowerse letters kd lang released Constant Cravg, a song so suggtive of lbian longg that beme the sapphic anthem for unrequed one of the first openly gay lbians pop – she me out, agast her label’s wish and to a eply nservative untry genre, an terview wh the Advote 1992 – Lang never shied away om rporatg her inty to her mic.
” But bee she wasn’t tradnally feme-lookg, and bee she was a lbian, at a time when beg an openly gay woman was sperately unol, she beme a punchle. Lang’s fluence on a new generatn has breached the cultural surface, but this time ’s gayer wh more gg.
JASON KENNEY THKS GAY STUNTS SHOULD BE OUTED. K.D. LANG ASKS HIM IF HE’S GAY.
It's been nearly two s sce k.d. lang me out publicly as gay, and now she's openg up about beg a longtime lbian in. RELATED: K.D. Lang Says Rumoured Romance Wh Madonna Was A 'Lbian Chic' PR Stunt Speakg to The Guardian, the Canadian sger relled the huge attentn she received after g out. “I was… * is kd lang gay *
Orville Peck’s inty might be ncealed behd his mask but the openly gay mician is phg the boundari of untry. Gay culture isn't jt one sliver of humany - 's a huge cross-sectn of people.
A noted activist, lang was pecially volved the gay rights movement; the early 1990s she publicly me out as a lbian.
* is kd lang gay *
She advot for human rights, animal rights, and gay rights. Lang released the album Ingénue and publicly me out as gay.