Melissa Etheridge on Why Gay Conttants Fare Better on ‘The Voice’ Than ‘Amerin Idol’ – The Hollywood Reporter

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The openly-gay Amerin rock sger is bt known for her 1993 album Y I Am. And sger-songwrer Melissa Etheridge has revealed the moment she knew she was not terted mal.

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MELISSA ETHERIDGE ON BEG OUT: ‘WE N’T GET GAY ENOUGH RIGHT NOW!’

It would be filled not jt wh the dualy of gay or straight, but that there was so much space between that fi fn. Etheridge: Like, “Oh, I’m gay, I’m gay. Gog om the 12 years of nservatism of Reagan and Bh and we fally had a print, had a ndidate on the mpaign trail who said the words “gay” and “lbian.

” There were so many gay women behd the scen. Do you thk we’ll have a gay or lbian print your lifetime?

JULIE CYPHER DISVERED SHE WASN'T GAY AFTER BEG WH MELISSA ETHERIDGE FOR A DE

She was first disvered a gay bar lled Vermie's California.

A BEAUTIFUL & CONVENIENT COINCIDENCEMelissa first me out durg the Triangle Ball, a gay celebratn of Print Clton's guratn January 1993. "I did realize when I me out that the album tle would seem clever, but 's all good, " she ICON AND ACTIVISTMelissa beme a vol advote for the gay muny shortly after g out.

"Melissa Etheridge shared her personal experienc of advotg for the LGBT muny at a Uned Stat Department of Jtice Event, June, 2013 | Photo: GettyImagThe days, more and more gay artists have the chance to top the charts while beg out and proud. You n no longer say, ‘You n’t do that bee you’re gay. Melissa Etheridge had to hi her homosexualy her lyrics.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE RELLS MEETG WHERE THEY ASKED 'WHAT ARE WE GOG TO DO ABOUT THE GAY THG?'

"But then I got volved the Clton/Gore mpaign, and got ved to the big Gay Triangle Ball. When she sat down for another terview wh Advote  2019, Melissa Etheridge relled what life was like for gay people back when she was a youngster.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE ON WHY GAY CONTTANTS FARE BETTER ON ‘THE VOICE’ THAN ‘AMERIN IDOL’

In June 2016, ISIS follower Omar Mateen opened fire at gay Orlando nightclub Pulse, killg 49 people the adlit terror attack on Amerin soil sce 9/11. ”Then, more and more sgers me on to the scene like Sam Smh — “artists who are gay, and ’s kd of obv, and they’re jt so good and the mic is so good, ” Etheridge the last 10 years, Etheridge said she has been lighted by the amazg young talent (“lennial sort of youngsters, ” she lghed) like Kg Prcs and Hayley Kiyoko. Then, was eher you were straight or you were gay.

Etheridge jt released a new sgle, “One Way Out, ” as part of a project brgg back songs that didn’t make on to her albums the early ‘90s or 2000s, cludg some that were too gay-posive or femist to clu when she first wrote them. We n’t get gay enough right now! In 1969, when gay, lbian and transgenr patrons faced off agast police at Stonewall the Village, Etheridge was an 8-year-old Leavenworth, Kan.

Gay liberatn didn’t ronate for her until she was a teenager, she says, when she started her own g-out procs.

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Julie Cypher Disvered She Wasn't Gay after Beg wh Melissa Etheridge for a De .

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