Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed "ventor of jazz," didn't praise many people bis himself, but he ma an exceptn for Tony Jackson: "Tony was nsired among all who knew him the greatt sgle-hand entertaer the world.” And Jackson was openly gay at a time when that was credibly rare.
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- LA ROUX: ‘THE GAY MUNY ARE DYG FOR YOU TO LABEL YOURSELF’
- IS ELLY JACKSON GAY?? DO THE SGER, WHO IS PRIVATE ABOUT HER DATG LIFE, HAVE A GIRLIEND OR A BOYIEND??
LA ROUX: ‘THE GAY MUNY ARE DYG FOR YOU TO LABEL YOURSELF’
Fd out all the lightful tails about sger Elly Jackson's gay mors and her elive datg life. Do she have a girliend or a boyiend?? Is she married?? Fd out right here!! * is elly jackson gay *
She is almost unfortably forthright, soundg off about her former label, the clash she’s had wh the gay muny (spe beg gay herself) and her issu wh genr inty. ’ I wasn’t ready to be on a pestal of like, ‘I reprent all gay people. The gay muny are dyg for you to label yourself, and I’m so nfed as to how they thk that’s helpful.
It’s where I’ll always have ictn wh some part of the gay muny, even though I’m a f***g gay person. “I gus, took me so long to intify as gay, but wasn’t a hard transn for me.
’ So I was never lookg for somebody else that was talkg about beg gay. But I n properly unrstand, pecially if you knew you were gay om the age of 12 or 13, that by the time you were 16 you’d be like, ‘I need to f***g read about some gay people. When her straight iends would go to shows by gay artists, they’d report back that they had felt “unwele” bee they were so the mory (which is probably how the queer people at those shows felt jt about everywhere else).
IS ELLY JACKSON GAY?? DO THE SGER, WHO IS PRIVATE ABOUT HER DATG LIFE, HAVE A GIRLIEND OR A BOYIEND??
“I was really overly paranoid that my whole show would jt be full of gay women, ” she says. “And that would jt bee a gay scene thg. I don’t md if there’s 50 per cent this, 50 per cent that, but I jt didn’t want to be lent totally straight and I didn’t want to be lent totally gay.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news to all you hopeful mic fans, but Elly Jackson, the adorable androgyno sger of Brish electro-pop duo La Roux is, fact, not gay. But, you know, there are plenty of cute women out there who seem like they jt have to be gay, and aren’t, no matter how bad we want them on our team.