Cyndi Lper and her hero fight for gay rights

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• WHO IS CYNDI LPER MARRIED TO? GAY IN ENTHRALLS FANS WH WHE HOE APPEARANCE AT RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT SIGNG
• CYNDI LPER OUT AGA FOR THE GAY MUNY -- AGAST GAY TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
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SHE SRED A STRG OF HS THAT CLUD "TIME AFTER TIME" AND "GIRLS JT WANT TO HAVE FUN" AND WON THE 1984 GRAMMY AWARD FOR BT NEW ARTIST. WH HER ECLECTIC CLOTH, FLAMBOYANTLY STYLED HAIR AND NTAG POP MELODI, LPER HAS CEMENTED HERSELF AS A MIC IN, HAVG SOLD OVER 50 LN ALBUMS WORLDWI. IN JUNE 2013, LPER'S MIL KKY BOOTS WON SIX TONY AWARDS, CLUDG FOR BT MIL, WHICH MAK LPER THE FIRST FEMALE TO W THIS TEGORY BY HERSELF. EARLY LIFECYNTHIA ANN STEPHANIE LPER WAS BORN ON JUNE 22, 1953, ASTORIA, NEW YORK. HER EARLIT CHILDHOOD DAYS WERE SPENT BROOKLYN, BUT WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT FOUR YEARS OLD, THE FAY MOVED TO OZONE PARK, QUEENS, WHERE SHE LIVED A RAILROAD-STYLE APARTMENT THROUGH HER TEENAGE YEARS. GROWG UP, LPER FELT LIKE AN OUTST. HER PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN SHE WAS FIVE. LPER AND HER TWO SIBLGS WERE RAISED BY HER MOTHER, WHO WORKED AS A WARS TO SUPPORT THE FAY — AND WHO LOVED THE ARTS AND EQUENTLY TOOK HER CHILDREN TO MANHATTAN TO SEE SHAKPEARE PLAYS OR VIS ART MMS. LPER DID NOT DO PARTICULARLY WELL SCHOOL, AND WAS REPORTEDLY KICKED OUT OF SEVERAL PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS HER YOUTH. DPE HER HARD TIM, SHE DISVERED A LOVE OF SGG AND MIC AT AN EARLY AGE, AND WAS WRG HER OWN SONGS BY THE AGE OF 12.AFTER EVENTUALLY GETTG A HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY GREE, LPER WORKED A NUMBER OF ODD JOBS BEFORE HER MIC REER TOOK OFF. SHE WARSED, SERVED AS AN OFFICE ASSISTANT, AND EVEN SANG A JAPANE RTRANT FOR A TIME. DURG THIS TIME, LPER ALSO PLAYED A NUMBER OF BANDS. SHE HAD HER FIRST TASTE OF SUCCS WH THE BAND BLUE ANGEL, WHICH LAND A RERD AL. THE GROUP MA ONE RERD TOGETHER BEFORE SPLTG UP.SONGS: "GIRLS JT WANNA HAVE FUN" AND "TIME AFTER TIME"GOG SOLO, LPER BURST ONTO THE CHARTS WH HER BUT ALBUM, SHE'S SO UNUAL. WH HER ECLECTIC CLOTH, FLAMBOYANTLY STYLED HAIR, AND NTAG POP MELODI, LPER TOOK THE MIC WORLD BY SURPRISE. THE 1983 RERDG SOLD OVER 6 LN PI THE U.S. ALONE (16 LN WORLDWI) AND FEATURED HER FIRST H, "GIRLS JT WANT TO HAVE FUN." THE SONG BEME A FEMALE PARTY ANTHEM, AND THE MIC VIO WENT TO HEAVY ROTATN ON MTV. LPER BEME WILDLY POPULAR ALMOST OVERNIGHT, SRG A STRG OF HS THAT CLUD "TIME AFTER TIME," "SHE BOP" AND "ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT." SHE WAS FURTHER REWARD FOR HER WORK WHEN SHE WON THE 1984 GRAMMY AWARD FOR BT NEW ARTIST. IN 1985, SHE RELEASED "THE GOONI 'R' GOOD ENOUGH" FOR THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE FILM THE GOONI.HER 1986 FOLLOW-UP ALBUM, TE COLORS, SOLD NEARLY TWO LN PI THE U.S. AND SEVEN LN WORLDWI. EXPLORG NEW CREATIVE AVENU, LPER MA HER FILM BUT 1988 STARRG OPPOSE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}JEFF GOLDBLUM THE EDY VIB. THE MOVIE PERFORMED POORLY BOTH THE MERCIAL AND CRIL REALMS. IN 1989, LPER RELEASED HER THIRD ALBUM A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, WHICH FEATURED THE H "I DROVE ALL NIGHT," BUT HAD WEAK OVERALL SAL PARED TO HER PREV ALBUMS. LATER CAREERLPER HAD SUCCS AS AN ACTRS A RECURRG ROLE ON THE TV S MAD ABOUT YOU, WHICH STARRED HELEN HUNT AND PL REISER. IN 1995, LPER WON AN EMMY FOR HER WORK ON THE SERI. SHE LATER APPEARED ON SUCH SHOWS AS THAT'S SO RAVEN AND BON.WHILE SHE EXPLORED ACTG, LPER NTUED TO MAKE MIC. ALTHOUGH HATFUL OF STARS (1993) WAS NOT A MERCIAL SUCCS, WAS AN ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR LPER. THE ALBUM WAS WILY PRAISED BY CRICS FOR SONGS, WHICH TOOK ON DIFFICULT TOPICS SUCH AS DOMTIC ABE AND HOMOPHOBIA. TWELVE DEADLY CYNS, A PILATN OF HER HS, WAS RELEASED 1995. IN 1997, LPER RECEIVED CRIL PRAISE FOR SISTERS OF AVALON, WHICH CLUD ALL NEW MIC, AND SHE FOLLOWED UP WH A HOLIDAY ALBUM MERRY CHRISTMAS. . A NICE LIFE! (1998). LPER DIDN'T RELEASE NEW MIC UNTIL AT LAST (2003), A LLECTN OF POP STANDARDS. HER 2008 ALBUM BRG YA TO THE BRK (2008) FEATURED DANCE TRACKS CLUDG THE GRAMMY-NOMATED SONG "HIGH AND MIGHTY." HER ALBUM, MEMPHIS BLU (2010), FEATURED HER TAKE ON SEVERAL CLASSIC BLU SONGS AND BEME BILLBOARD'S BTSELLG BLU ALBUM THAT YEAR.IN 2012, THE POP IN WROTE HER TOBGRAPHY CYNDI LPER: A MEMOIR. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, SHE TOOK HER TALENTS TO BROADWAY WRG THE MIC AND LYRICS FOR KKY BOOTS WH A BOOK BY HARVEY FIERSTE. KKY BOOTS WON SIX TONY AWARDS, CLUDG FOR BT MIL, BT LEADG MAN AND BT ORIGAL SRE. LPER IS THE FIRST SOLO FEMALE WHO'S WON THE BT MIL TEGORY. DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY TONY AWARD WNER JERRY MCHELL, THE PRODUCTN CENTERS ON THE LIFE OF CHARLIE PRICE, WHO, AFTER HERG HIS FATHER'S NEARLY BANKPT SHOE FACTORY, DISVERS THE MAN HE'S MEANT TO BE WH THE HELP OF AN ENTERTAER NAMED LOLA.IN 2013, LPER CELEBRATED THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALBUM THAT LNCHED HER REER, SHE'S SO UNUAL, WH A TOUR. IN 2016, SHE RELEASED DETOUR, A UNTRY ALBUM FEATURG DUETS WH WILLIE NELSON, EMMYLOU HARRIS, VCE GILL, JEWEL AND ALISON KRSS. CHARABLE CSOUTSI OF MIC, LPER HAS BEEN A TIRELS ACTIVIST FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. "CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE TO BE AFFORD TO EVERY AMERIN, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR LOR, GENR OR SEXUAL PREFERENCE. YOU N'T SAY THIS IS A MOCRACY IF THAT ISN'T THE SE," SHE TOLD WWD. SHE HELPED TABLISH THE TE COLORS FUND, WHICH WORKS TO PROMOTE AWARENS AND FIGHT FOR EQUALY. ON THE FUND'S WEBSE, LPER WR "EVERYONE—WHETHER STRAIGHT, GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR—SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SHOW THEIR TE LORS, AND BE ACCEPTED AND LOVED FOR WHO THEY ARE. EVERY AMERIN SHOULD BE GUARANTEED EQUAL TREATMENT AT SCHOOL, AT WORK, THEIR RELATNSHIPS, SERVICE OF THEIR UNTRY . . . AND EVERY PART OF THEIR LIV." IN ADDN TO TOURG TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE FUND, LPER PETED ON THE REALY SHOW THE CELEBRY APPRENTICE TO HELP OUT HER CHARY.IN JULY 2015, WHILE ANNOUNCG HER SUPPORT FOR THE NATNAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATN AND NOVARTIS ON THE TODAY SHOW, LPER ADMTED SHE HAD RECENTLY BEEN DIAGNOSED WH PSORIASIS.PERSONAL LIFELPER HAS BEEN MARRIED TO ACTOR DAVID THORNTON SCE 1991. THE UPLE HAS A SON, DECLYN, TOGETHER.VIOSRELATED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

WHO IS CYNDI LPER MARRIED TO? GAY IN ENTHRALLS FANS WH WHE HOE APPEARANCE AT RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT SIGNG

Cyndi Lper is a longtime gay in and has been married for 30 years to actor David Thornton. The song “Te Colors” is a gay anthem, and I’m sure you’ve seen seen vered several tim.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Throughout her reer, sger-songwrer Cyndi Lper has promoted gay and lbian rights. " Wh her 2007 and 2008 "Te Colors" tours, Lper has helped raise awarens about lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights around the untry.

CYNDI LPER OUT AGA FOR THE GAY MUNY -- AGAST GAY TRUMP SUPPORTERS.

Today has more than 725, 000, makg the largt gay and lbian rights anizatn the untry.

" In 2007, when Lper worked wh HRC for the "Te Colors" tour, she and Nelson teamed up to brg gay and straight dienc together on fairns and equaly issu. All About Gay and Lbian Relatnships. The album was wily praised by crics for songs, which took on difficult topics such as domtic abe and homophobia.

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SHE SRED A STRG OF HS THAT CLUD "TIME AFTER TIME" AND "GIRLS JT WANT TO HAVE FUN" AND WON THE 1984 GRAMMY AWARD FOR BT NEW ARTIST. WH HER ECLECTIC CLOTH, FLAMBOYANTLY STYLED HAIR AND NTAG POP MELODI, LPER HAS CEMENTED HERSELF AS A MIC IN, HAVG SOLD OVER 50 LN ALBUMS WORLDWI. IN JUNE 2013, LPER'S MIL KKY BOOTS WON SIX TONY AWARDS, CLUDG FOR BT MIL, WHICH MAK LPER THE FIRST FEMALE TO W THIS TEGORY BY HERSELF. EARLY LIFECYNTHIA ANN STEPHANIE LPER WAS BORN ON JUNE 22, 1953, ASTORIA, NEW YORK. HER EARLIT CHILDHOOD DAYS WERE SPENT BROOKLYN, BUT WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT FOUR YEARS OLD, THE FAY MOVED TO OZONE PARK, QUEENS, WHERE SHE LIVED A RAILROAD-STYLE APARTMENT THROUGH HER TEENAGE YEARS. GROWG UP, LPER FELT LIKE AN OUTST. HER PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN SHE WAS FIVE. LPER AND HER TWO SIBLGS WERE RAISED BY HER MOTHER, WHO WORKED AS A WARS TO SUPPORT THE FAY — AND WHO LOVED THE ARTS AND EQUENTLY TOOK HER CHILDREN TO MANHATTAN TO SEE SHAKPEARE PLAYS OR VIS ART MMS. LPER DID NOT DO PARTICULARLY WELL SCHOOL, AND WAS REPORTEDLY KICKED OUT OF SEVERAL PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS HER YOUTH. DPE HER HARD TIM, SHE DISVERED A LOVE OF SGG AND MIC AT AN EARLY AGE, AND WAS WRG HER OWN SONGS BY THE AGE OF 12.AFTER EVENTUALLY GETTG A HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY GREE, LPER WORKED A NUMBER OF ODD JOBS BEFORE HER MIC REER TOOK OFF. SHE WARSED, SERVED AS AN OFFICE ASSISTANT, AND EVEN SANG A JAPANE RTRANT FOR A TIME. DURG THIS TIME, LPER ALSO PLAYED A NUMBER OF BANDS. SHE HAD HER FIRST TASTE OF SUCCS WH THE BAND BLUE ANGEL, WHICH LAND A RERD AL. THE GROUP MA ONE RERD TOGETHER BEFORE SPLTG UP.SONGS: "GIRLS JT WANNA HAVE FUN" AND "TIME AFTER TIME"GOG SOLO, LPER BURST ONTO THE CHARTS WH HER BUT ALBUM, SHE'S SO UNUAL. WH HER ECLECTIC CLOTH, FLAMBOYANTLY STYLED HAIR, AND NTAG POP MELODI, LPER TOOK THE MIC WORLD BY SURPRISE. THE 1983 RERDG SOLD OVER 6 LN PI THE U.S. ALONE (16 LN WORLDWI) AND FEATURED HER FIRST H, "GIRLS JT WANT TO HAVE FUN." THE SONG BEME A FEMALE PARTY ANTHEM, AND THE MIC VIO WENT TO HEAVY ROTATN ON MTV. LPER BEME WILDLY POPULAR ALMOST OVERNIGHT, SRG A STRG OF HS THAT CLUD "TIME AFTER TIME," "SHE BOP" AND "ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT." SHE WAS FURTHER REWARD FOR HER WORK WHEN SHE WON THE 1984 GRAMMY AWARD FOR BT NEW ARTIST. IN 1985, SHE RELEASED "THE GOONI 'R' GOOD ENOUGH" FOR THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE FILM THE GOONI.HER 1986 FOLLOW-UP ALBUM, TE COLORS, SOLD NEARLY TWO LN PI THE U.S. AND SEVEN LN WORLDWI. EXPLORG NEW CREATIVE AVENU, LPER MA HER FILM BUT 1988 STARRG OPPOSE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}JEFF GOLDBLUM THE EDY VIB. THE MOVIE PERFORMED POORLY BOTH THE MERCIAL AND CRIL REALMS. IN 1989, LPER RELEASED HER THIRD ALBUM A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, WHICH FEATURED THE H "I DROVE ALL NIGHT," BUT HAD WEAK OVERALL SAL PARED TO HER PREV ALBUMS. LATER CAREERLPER HAD SUCCS AS AN ACTRS A RECURRG ROLE ON THE TV S MAD ABOUT YOU, WHICH STARRED HELEN HUNT AND PL REISER. IN 1995, LPER WON AN EMMY FOR HER WORK ON THE SERI. SHE LATER APPEARED ON SUCH SHOWS AS THAT'S SO RAVEN AND BON.WHILE SHE EXPLORED ACTG, LPER NTUED TO MAKE MIC. ALTHOUGH HATFUL OF STARS (1993) WAS NOT A MERCIAL SUCCS, WAS AN ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR LPER. THE ALBUM WAS WILY PRAISED BY CRICS FOR SONGS, WHICH TOOK ON DIFFICULT TOPICS SUCH AS DOMTIC ABE AND HOMOPHOBIA. TWELVE DEADLY CYNS, A PILATN OF HER HS, WAS RELEASED 1995. IN 1997, LPER RECEIVED CRIL PRAISE FOR SISTERS OF AVALON, WHICH CLUD ALL NEW MIC, AND SHE FOLLOWED UP WH A HOLIDAY ALBUM MERRY CHRISTMAS. . A NICE LIFE! (1998). LPER DIDN'T RELEASE NEW MIC UNTIL AT LAST (2003), A LLECTN OF POP STANDARDS. HER 2008 ALBUM BRG YA TO THE BRK (2008) FEATURED DANCE TRACKS CLUDG THE GRAMMY-NOMATED SONG "HIGH AND MIGHTY." HER ALBUM, MEMPHIS BLU (2010), FEATURED HER TAKE ON SEVERAL CLASSIC BLU SONGS AND BEME BILLBOARD'S BTSELLG BLU ALBUM THAT YEAR.IN 2012, THE POP IN WROTE HER TOBGRAPHY CYNDI LPER: A MEMOIR. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, SHE TOOK HER TALENTS TO BROADWAY WRG THE MIC AND LYRICS FOR KKY BOOTS WH A BOOK BY HARVEY FIERSTE. KKY BOOTS WON SIX TONY AWARDS, CLUDG FOR BT MIL, BT LEADG MAN AND BT ORIGAL SRE. LPER IS THE FIRST SOLO FEMALE WHO'S WON THE BT MIL TEGORY. DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY TONY AWARD WNER JERRY MCHELL, THE PRODUCTN CENTERS ON THE LIFE OF CHARLIE PRICE, WHO, AFTER HERG HIS FATHER'S NEARLY BANKPT SHOE FACTORY, DISVERS THE MAN HE'S MEANT TO BE WH THE HELP OF AN ENTERTAER NAMED LOLA.IN 2013, LPER CELEBRATED THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALBUM THAT LNCHED HER REER, SHE'S SO UNUAL, WH A TOUR. IN 2016, SHE RELEASED DETOUR, A UNTRY ALBUM FEATURG DUETS WH WILLIE NELSON, EMMYLOU HARRIS, VCE GILL, JEWEL AND ALISON KRSS. CHARABLE CSOUTSI OF MIC, LPER HAS BEEN A TIRELS ACTIVIST FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. "CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE TO BE AFFORD TO EVERY AMERIN, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR LOR, GENR OR SEXUAL PREFERENCE. YOU N'T SAY THIS IS A MOCRACY IF THAT ISN'T THE SE," SHE TOLD WWD. SHE HELPED TABLISH THE TE COLORS FUND, WHICH WORKS TO PROMOTE AWARENS AND FIGHT FOR EQUALY. ON THE FUND'S WEBSE, LPER WR "EVERYONE—WHETHER STRAIGHT, GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR—SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SHOW THEIR TE LORS, AND BE ACCEPTED AND LOVED FOR WHO THEY ARE. EVERY AMERIN SHOULD BE GUARANTEED EQUAL TREATMENT AT SCHOOL, AT WORK, THEIR RELATNSHIPS, SERVICE OF THEIR UNTRY . . . AND EVERY PART OF THEIR LIV." IN ADDN TO TOURG TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE FUND, LPER PETED ON THE REALY SHOW THE CELEBRY APPRENTICE TO HELP OUT HER CHARY.IN JULY 2015, WHILE ANNOUNCG HER SUPPORT FOR THE NATNAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATN AND NOVARTIS ON THE TODAY SHOW, LPER ADMTED SHE HAD RECENTLY BEEN DIAGNOSED WH PSORIASIS.PERSONAL LIFELPER HAS BEEN MARRIED TO ACTOR DAVID THORNTON SCE 1991. THE UPLE HAS A SON, DECLYN, TOGETHER.VIOSRELATED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

Charable CsOutsi of mic, Lper has been a tirels activist for the gay rights movement. On the fund's webse, Lper wr "Everyone—whether straight, gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr—should be allowed to show their te lors, and be accepted and loved for who they are. QUOTESEveryone—whether straight, gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr—should be allowed to show their te lors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.