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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.
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"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. The piece she mols has the phrase “celebrate” on , which is an exclive prt honor of June’s gay pri month celebratns ($18, ).
#20GAYTEEN: THE YEAR OF HAYLEY KIYOKO
Lbian J Hayley Kiyoko is beg honored wh the Youth Innovator Award om the Trevor Project for her "mment to supportg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng young people. Then there is Hayley Kiyoko, wh her unapologetic love for other girls, her agency over her sexualy, and her electropop songs that don’t feature sad or ad gay girls. Which is a major ntrast to the prevalent trop about LGBT women and people media today, which seems to be nothg but sadns and Bury Your Gays.
Hayley Kiyoko beg an East Asian woman also giv gay/bisexual women of lor much need reprentatn.