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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
- HAYLEY KIYOKO REVEALS SHE KNEW SHE WAS GAY AT SIX
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. 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. “??? love , ” Colton Unrwood, who was prevly the “Bachelor” before g out as gay, mented unr Kiyoko’s Instagram post wh the vio. When she thanks the crowd for makg space the mic dtry for “someone like her” — gay, female, half Japane — she starts to cry.
A ltle over half a year after watchg her lay gltery, gay waste to the Bowery Ballroom, I meet Hayley Kiyoko for breakfast at Clton Street Bakg Company & Rtrant, a much-hyped bnch spot on the Lower East Si.
Kiyoko wasn’t out high school, except to a very few close iends, but says she knew she was gay “sce the womb. “I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want to lead wh that.
HAYLEY KIYOKO REVEALS SHE KNEW SHE WAS GAY AT SIX
“I did not want to be the gay artist... ” The kiss was pure (and savvy) publicy, but where prev eras’ “gay for sweeps week” efforts seemed like cheap stunts — like the brief flg between The O. '”That Kiyoko is able to perform and sell explicly queer mic is, of urse, thanks part to precsors like Tegan and Sara, who’ve ma a pot to ll out the homophobia and sexism they faced early their reers.
Adam Lambert, too, has cricized the mic dtry’s refal to let gay men sg openly about men. Hayley Kiyoko has revealed that she knew she was gay at six years old.
But the “Cur” sger, who lnched the hashtag #20GayTeen – the bt queer name for 2018 existence – said was years before she felt accepted. “This is what’s funny about beg gay: I look back and I remember her as a girliend, ” Kiyoko said. While Kiyoko has said she's known she was gay "sce the womb, " she didn't e out until she was much olr.