Cher explas why she has loved gay people sce she was 9-years-old - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• CHER HAS HAD A POWERFUL AFFY WH GAY MEN SCE SHE WAS NE-YEARS-OLD. HERE’S WHY
• WHY ARE GAY MEN DRAWN TO DIVAS LIKE CHER, LIZA, BETTE, BARBRA, DIANA AND OTHERS?
• CHER RELLS THE HER FIRST INTERACTN WH GAY PEOPLE NEW INTERVIEW
• WHY ARE GAY MEN OBSSED WH POWERFUL WOMEN?
• CHER EXPLAS WHY SHE HAS LOVED GAY PEOPLE SCE SHE WAS 9-YEARS-OLD

CHER HAS HAD A POWERFUL AFFY WH GAY MEN SCE SHE WAS NE-YEARS-OLD. HERE’S WHY

Cher revealed that she relat to gay people “bee gay people don’t feel like they f and I never felt like I f ”, an terview wh CNN‘s Christiane Amanpour.

In the terview, she relled her troductn to the “gay world” when she was ne-years-old. Cher has long been a gay in. Cher told CNN: “It was very unlike me to the begng have a problem wh Chaz beg gay and disappeared like that.

WHY ARE GAY MEN DRAWN TO DIVAS LIKE CHER, LIZA, BETTE, BARBRA, DIANA AND OTHERS?

Gay men were tradnally very margalized and opprsed – generally by straight men and the stutns they ntrolled. There were very, very few out gay men to intify wh entertament, and we were reluctant to openly intify wh our opprsors, so we were drawn to another group of outsirs: women.

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CHER RELLS THE HER FIRST INTERACTN WH GAY PEOPLE NEW INTERVIEW

Ever sce the early days of her reer, pop in Cher has bee an unequivol gay in. Whether ’s her nstant support of her transgenr son Chaz Bono, her flamboyant and fabulo stumery, or even her Osr-nomated starrg role as a lbian the film Silkwood (which also starred her fellow Mamma Mia -star Meryl Streep), the “Turn Back Time” sger has cemented her place gay history.

WHY ARE GAY MEN OBSSED WH POWERFUL WOMEN?

Here We Go Aga, Cher revealed that she met gay people for the first time when she was 12 years old and livg wh her mother, Geia Holt. “And I didn’t know that they were gay, but I jt thought ‘The guys are great, ’ and all started om then.

In an terview wh GLAAD, Cher stated that her first teractn wh the LGBTQ+ muny was as a 12-year-old, when she met two gay men her livg room after g om home school.

She went on to expla that she “didn’t know that they were gay”, but that they were “much more fun that the regular men that me over to vis”. She has spoken at var nferenc and, 1998, received the GLAAD Vanguard Award for “havg ma a signifint difference promotg equal rights for lbian and gay men”.

CHER EXPLAS WHY SHE HAS LOVED GAY PEOPLE SCE SHE WAS 9-YEARS-OLD

Once I moved to New York and met more queer people, I quickly realized that my experience wasn’t unique; most of my gay iends had also grown up worshippg famo women. A viral tweet by edian Caleb Hearon said bt: “when gay boys turn 13 years old the universe assigns them one woman workg entertament.

If there is one characteristic shared by the powerful women that gay men love, ’s that they all rporate bold — borrle theatril — cloth and performanc to their personas. “I spect that celebry culture has bee so important to many queer folx bee theater has long been a home for the ‘others’ our culture, ’” Ashera DeRosa, a licensed marriage and fay therapist who works wh LGBTQ+ clients, tells many gay men, that otherns is often tied to our exprsns of femy, a tra that’s equently punished by our peers and fay whenever we dare to exprs .

“In hip-hop, men always ma women an accsory, but [the artists] me and turned that around, ” Jonathan gay men are faiar wh the feelg of beg the butt of everyone’s joke and the feelg that we have to work twice as hard to be taken serly — and most of cred a powerful woman entertament wh givg the urage to bt out of the closet. For many gay men my generatn, that person was Lady Gaga.