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- HAYLEY KIYOKO SAYS BEG GAY IS HER 'BIGGT STRENGTH': 'IT'S EMPOWERED ME'
- #20GAYTEEN: THE YEAR OF HAYLEY KIYOKO
HAYLEY KIYOKO SAYS BEG GAY IS HER 'BIGGT STRENGTH': 'IT'S EMPOWERED ME'
“When we wrote [“Chance, ” Kiyoko’s latt sgle] and rerd , I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is so gay, '” she says wh a lgh. On Friday’s episo of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the mician, who has long been an advote for the LGBTQ muny, shared that beg gay has bee her “biggt strength” after years of livg life fear of other people not acceptg her. “My biggt weakns growg up was that I was gay and I was different om everyone else and now ’s bee my biggt strength bee ’s empowered me, ” Kiyoko, 28, explaed to host Kelly Clarkson alongsi gut Tracee Ellis Ross.
Sce g out, Kiyoko has been a big advote for LGBTQ+ rights and wily fluential the muny, to the pot of beg nsired a gay in by her fans. Jt bee I'm gay, don't mean I shouldn't be able to sg at the top of my lungs all over the world and be able to achieve those What was the creative procs like for your new album, Expectatns? "My biggt weakns growg up was that I was gay and I was different om everyone else, " Hayley says on Friday's episo of The Kelly Clarkson Show, addg that now 's bee her "biggt strength" and has empowered her.
#20GAYTEEN: THE YEAR OF HAYLEY KIYOKO
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As a gay woman of lor myself, mak me ridiculoly happy: she is someone I n relate to all aspects. "I want to be an artist, and I want people to know about me and know that I'm gay, " Kiyoko told TODAY honor of our 2021 Pri Month LGBTQ Pri Month, TODAY is highlightg the LGBTQ trailblazers pop culture who paved the way, along wh the trendsetters of today who are makg a name for Illtratn / Atlantic RerdsJune 1, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC / Source: TODAYHayley Kiyoko has been the entertament dtry for well over a .