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- HAYLEY KIYOKO SAYS BEG GAY IS HER 'BIGGT STRENGTH': 'IT'S EMPOWERED ME'
- HAYLEY KIYOKO: I KNEW I WAS GAY WHEN I WAS 6 YEARS OLD
- #20GAYTEEN: THE YEAR OF HAYLEY KIYOKO
HAYLEY KIYOKO SAYS BEG GAY IS HER 'BIGGT STRENGTH': 'IT'S EMPOWERED ME'
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. “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.
In , the pop sger-songwrer says she me to intify as gay at age 6 and rells how her attractn to girls drove her ep to isolatn as an adolcent.
HAYLEY KIYOKO: I KNEW I WAS GAY WHEN I WAS 6 YEARS OLD
“This is what’s funny about beg gay: I look back and I remember her as a girliend, ” she tells Rollg Stone. While Kiyoko has said she's known she was gay "sce the womb, " she didn't e out until she was much olr.
#20GAYTEEN: THE YEAR OF HAYLEY KIYOKO
"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 26-year-old is acctomed to beg an outlier, and beyond the Echo Park neighborhood: She’s an openly gay, half-Japane mic star wh a Disney Channel pedigree who’s unapologetic about her explicly queer stra of synth-pop.