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The folk sger is currently on a UK tour and has changed the lyrics of the 1991 track om “Jt bee you’re gay, I won’t turn you away/ If you stick around, I’m sure that we n fd some mon ground” to “Jt bee you’re they, I won’t turn you away/ If you stick around, I’m sure that we n fd the right pronoun”. “Throughout my reer, I’ve ed my songs to promote allyship among my dience: for the female victims of male vlence songs such as ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’ and ‘Valente’s Day Is Over’, and for the gay muny ‘Tenr Comra’, as well as the aforementned ‘Sexualy’.
“The latter was released at a time when a batn of the Aids epimic and the Tori’ Sectn 28 legislatn stirred up a moral panic agast homosexualy. Thirty years later, however, enuragg your dience to fd mon ground wh the gay muny is no longer such a challengg statement. Equal rights legislatn has given gays and lbians the same benefs and protectns as everybody else.
He nclud his op-ed: “I’m not erasg the gay muny when I change the lyrics to ‘Sexualy’, I’m simply updatg them to reflect the changg tim we live .