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- THE INTERVIEW: GAY IN KD LANG ON WHY EVEN SHE IS BAFFLED BY OUR GENR-FLUID TIM
- MIC'S GREATT GAY IN: K.D. LANG OR MELISSA ETHERIDGE? | THE TYLT
THE INTERVIEW: GAY IN KD LANG ON WHY EVEN SHE IS BAFFLED BY OUR GENR-FLUID TIM
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 k d 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.
MIC'S GREATT GAY IN: K.D. LANG OR MELISSA ETHERIDGE? | THE TYLT
Grammy Award wner and openly gay sger k.d. lang shar her thought on the LGBTQ equaly stggle the Uned Stat. * is k d lang gay *
Gay culture isn't jt one sliver of humany - 's a huge cross-sectn of people.
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.
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” 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.