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Contents:

• MELISSA ETHERIDGE RELLS MEETG WHERE THEY ASKED 'WHAT ARE WE GOG TO DO ABOUT THE GAY THG?'
• MELISSA ETHERIDGE ON BEG OUT: ‘WE N’T GET GAY ENOUGH RIGHT NOW!’
• SGER MELISSA ETHERIDGE TO WED AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LG
• JULIE CYPHER DISVERED SHE WASN'T GAY AFTER BEG WH MELISSA ETHERIDGE FOR A DE
• MELISSA ETHERIDGE TO WED AFTER GAY-MARRIAGE RULGS
• MELISSA ETHERIDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “HATE DON’T W OUT OVER LOVE” (GUT COLUMN)

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

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? As someone who me out at a time where was much harr to make as a gay artist, how do feel now to see the artists thrivg?

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

Melissa Etheridge had to hi her homosexualy her lyrics. "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.

SGER MELISSA ETHERIDGE TO WED AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LG

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. "Some said, "So, what are we dog to do about the gay thg? You don’t need to unrstand gayns.

“Jt know that what’s happeng here is this sort of black and whe world we ed to live where was eher straight or gay is changg bee we are betiful people. If you knew me, you knew I was gay.

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

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.

I thk I’m a homosexual, ’ ” she says. After attendg Boston’s Berklee College of Mic for jt a semter and a half, Etheridge moved across the untry to Los Angel, where she often performed gay clubs.

Asked whether she performed any gay clubs here, she gets cheeky. It was, she says, “a relief” to e out jt months before the release of “Y I Am, ” wh s gay-posive anthems “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Wdow. “I love Melissa Etheridge and, God, I hope she fiv me, ” Lney said of her “horrifyg” rendn a recent terview wh gay webse.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE TO WED AFTER GAY-MARRIAGE RULGS

Supreme Court's lgs paved the way for gay marriage California, the uple's home state. Etheridge, 52, me out 1993 and was an early and proment gay rights advote the entertament dtry.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “HATE DON’T W OUT OVER LOVE” (GUT COLUMN)

"The Supreme Court affirmed on Wednday a lower urt lg that stck down California's voter-approved ban on gay marriage.

The state would bee the Uned Stat' 13th state to legalize same-sex untry's hight urt also stck down a key part of a the feral law, Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that nied benefs to same-sex married Supreme Court's lgs reverberated Hollywood, where some of the entertament dtry's most proment personali advote gay rights. Hollywood power uple Brad Pt and Angela Jolie have said the past that they would not get married until gay upl uld as well.

Comedienne and talk show host Ellen DeGener, an early gay rights advote, tweeted after the lg on Wednday, "It's a supremely wonrful day for equaly.