And you thought Sporty Spice was the one givg off gay vib!
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- SPICE GIRL MEL C SAYS TOMBOY ALTER EGO LED IENDS TO THK SHE WAS GAYMELANIE CHISHOLM - PREVLY KNOWN AS SPORTY SPICE - HAS VOWED TO KEEP SPIRG YOUNG GIRLS FOLLOWG THE POP GROUP'S SUCCS THE 90S AND IS SET TO RELEASE A NEW SGLE.DAILYRERDBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYRICK FULTON04:30, 26 SEP 2020BOOKMARKMEL C REVEALS SHE WAS OFTEN TOLD SHE WAS A LBIAN (IMAGE: TT NEWS AGENCY/PA IMAG)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- FORMER SPICE GIRL MEL B SAYS SHE WAS A LBIAN "FOR A FEW YEARS" IN THE 90'{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MATTHEW THARRETTNOVEMBER 8, 2014/10:53 AMBY MATTHEW THARRETTNOVEMBER 8, 2014 / 10:53 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"FORMER SPICE GIRL MEL B SAYS SHE WAS A LBIAN \"FOR A FEW YEARS\" IN THE 90'S","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-11-08T15:53:17.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-11-08T15:53:17.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW THARRETT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEL B, THE FALLIBLE POP STAR YOU GREW UP LLG SRY SPICE, REVEALED THAT SHE SPICED UP HER LIFE WH SEVERAL LADY LOVERS "OVER THE URSE OF SEVERAL YEARS" DURG HER TENURE WH THE SPICE GIRLS, THOUGH SHE DON'T NECSARILY BELIEVE THAT MAK HER A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND YOU THOUGHT SPORTY SPICE WAS THE ONE GIVG OFF GAY VIB!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE CURRENT X-FACTOR JUDGE DROPPED THE L-BOMB DURG AN TERVIEW WH ENGLISH EDIAN ALAN CARR THAT AIRED LAST NIGHT ON HIS CHANNEL 4 VARIETY SHOW, CHATTY MAN. SHE'S BEEN SUGGTIVELY LKED WH FEMALE PANNS THE PAST, BUT REFERS TO HER TIME AS A "LBIAN" AS NOTHG MORE THAN A PHASE MANY HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"YEAH, I WAS ONE OF THOSE FOR A FEW YEARS," SHE TOLD CARR, REFERRG TO HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN WHO "BEE LBIANS" FOR KICKS. "I WOULD NOT LL [LBIANISM]," SHE CLARIFIED. "I WAS JT ONE OF THOSE LADI. NOW I'M HAPPILY MARRIED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEL B, NOW 39, HAS THREE CHILDREN AND HAS BEEN MARRIED TO HER HBAND STEPHEN BELAFONTE FOR 7 YEARS. STRANGELY ENOUGH, SHE SAYS SHE ENGAGED SEVERAL "LBIAN" RELATNSHIPS DURG THE HEIGHT OF HER SPICE GIRLS FAME, THOUGH WAS HER BANDMATE MEL C WHO'S BEEN DOGGED BY LBIAN MORS SCE THE BAND'S EARLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2011, MEL C TOLD US THAT MORS OF HER BEG A LBIAN PARTLY DROVE HER TO PRSN AND BULIMIA. "THERE WERE A LOT OF LI PRTED," SHE SAID. "THE TABLOIDS WERE CEL ABOUT MY APPEARANCE, AND NOTHG N PREPARE YOU FOR THAT. YOU JT HAVE TO FIGHT YOUR WAY THROUGH ."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE'RE GLAD THE STATE OF POP MIC IS MUCH, MUCH DIFFERENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
SPICE GIRL MEL C SAYS TOMBOY ALTER EGO LED IENDS TO THK SHE WAS GAYMELANIE CHISHOLM - PREVLY KNOWN AS SPORTY SPICE - HAS VOWED TO KEEP SPIRG YOUNG GIRLS FOLLOWG THE POP GROUP'S SUCCS THE 90S AND IS SET TO RELEASE A NEW SGLE.DAILYRERDBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYRICK FULTON04:30, 26 SEP 2020BOOKMARKMEL C REVEALS SHE WAS OFTEN TOLD SHE WAS A LBIAN (IMAGE: TT NEWS AGENCY/PA IMAG)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
"We had a huge dience the gay muny, " she says. Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm says her tomboy alter ego led iends to thk she was gay. By Matthew TharrettNovember 8, 2014 / 10:53 AMMel B, the fallible pop star you grew up llg Sry Spice, revealed that she spiced up her life wh several lady lovers "over the urse of several years" durg her tenure wh The Spice Girls, though she don't necsarily believe that mak her a you thought Sporty Spice was the one givg off gay vib!
The Seventi saw many women's rights, gay rights, and environmental movements. Mel was a b of an accintal role mol for gay, genr non-nformg and bisexual women growg up the 90s, when we were extremely starved for reprentatn. I lost track of what they were up to until one cur night when I looked them up on Facebook and disvered that the younger son — the one who lived and breathed all thgs Spice — was now an out gay man livg proudly New York Cy.
FORMER SPICE GIRL MEL B SAYS SHE WAS A LBIAN "FOR A FEW YEARS" IN THE 90'{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MATTHEW THARRETTNOVEMBER 8, 2014/10:53 AMBY MATTHEW THARRETTNOVEMBER 8, 2014 / 10:53 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"FORMER SPICE GIRL MEL B SAYS SHE WAS A LBIAN \"FOR A FEW YEARS\" IN THE 90'S","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-11-08T15:53:17.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-11-08T15:53:17.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW THARRETT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEL B, THE FALLIBLE POP STAR YOU GREW UP LLG SRY SPICE, REVEALED THAT SHE SPICED UP HER LIFE WH SEVERAL LADY LOVERS "OVER THE URSE OF SEVERAL YEARS" DURG HER TENURE WH THE SPICE GIRLS, THOUGH SHE DON'T NECSARILY BELIEVE THAT MAK HER A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND YOU THOUGHT SPORTY SPICE WAS THE ONE GIVG OFF GAY VIB!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE CURRENT X-FACTOR JUDGE DROPPED THE L-BOMB DURG AN TERVIEW WH ENGLISH EDIAN ALAN CARR THAT AIRED LAST NIGHT ON HIS CHANNEL 4 VARIETY SHOW, CHATTY MAN. SHE'S BEEN SUGGTIVELY LKED WH FEMALE PANNS THE PAST, BUT REFERS TO HER TIME AS A "LBIAN" AS NOTHG MORE THAN A PHASE MANY HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"YEAH, I WAS ONE OF THOSE FOR A FEW YEARS," SHE TOLD CARR, REFERRG TO HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN WHO "BEE LBIANS" FOR KICKS. "I WOULD NOT LL [LBIANISM]," SHE CLARIFIED. "I WAS JT ONE OF THOSE LADI. NOW I'M HAPPILY MARRIED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEL B, NOW 39, HAS THREE CHILDREN AND HAS BEEN MARRIED TO HER HBAND STEPHEN BELAFONTE FOR 7 YEARS. STRANGELY ENOUGH, SHE SAYS SHE ENGAGED SEVERAL "LBIAN" RELATNSHIPS DURG THE HEIGHT OF HER SPICE GIRLS FAME, THOUGH WAS HER BANDMATE MEL C WHO'S BEEN DOGGED BY LBIAN MORS SCE THE BAND'S EARLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2011, MEL C TOLD US THAT MORS OF HER BEG A LBIAN PARTLY DROVE HER TO PRSN AND BULIMIA. "THERE WERE A LOT OF LI PRTED," SHE SAID. "THE TABLOIDS WERE CEL ABOUT MY APPEARANCE, AND NOTHG N PREPARE YOU FOR THAT. YOU JT HAVE TO FIGHT YOUR WAY THROUGH ."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE'RE GLAD THE STATE OF POP MIC IS MUCH, MUCH DIFFERENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
"As a ltle gay boy, I was always iends wh girls, and I was always Baby Spice when we played or talked about Spice Girls. More recently, Sporty Spice Mel C accepted the "honorary gay" award om queer UK publitn Attu, tellg the crowd at the ceremony, "The Spice Girls were about embracg dividualy.
It wasn’t jt girl power, was gay power.