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LA ROUX: ‘THE GAY MUNY ARE DYG FOR YOU TO LABEL YOURSELF’
She is almost unfortably forthright, soundg off about her former label, the clash she’s had wh the gay muny (spe beg gay herself) and her issu wh genr inty. ’ I wasn’t ready to be on a pestal of like, ‘I reprent all gay people.
The gay muny are dyg for you to label yourself, and I’m so nfed as to how they thk that’s helpful. It’s where I’ll always have ictn wh some part of the gay muny, even though I’m a f***g gay person. “I gus, took me so long to intify as gay, but wasn’t a hard transn for me.
’ So I was never lookg for somebody else that was talkg about beg gay. But I n properly unrstand, pecially if you knew you were gay om the age of 12 or 13, that by the time you were 16 you’d be like, ‘I need to f***g read about some gay people. When her straight iends would go to shows by gay artists, they’d report back that they had felt “unwele” bee they were so the mory (which is probably how the queer people at those shows felt jt about everywhere else).