On Febary 23, Alyona Mkovski of HuffPost Live nducted an terview wh '80s hard rock queen La Ford. You n now watch the chat below. Speakg about her brief ex om THE RUNAWAYS forty years ago after learng that her bandmat were gay, La said: "This was the early '70s, mid-'70s...
Contents:
- LA FORD REVEALS SHE QU THE RUNAWAYS BEE HER BANDMAT 'WERE ALL GAY'
- JOAN JETT WIKI, NET WORTH, IS SHE LBIAN OR GAY? HERE’S EVERYTHG TO KNOW
- IS JOAN JETT GAY? DID SHE ADMTED THAT SHE IS GAY OR NOT?
- LITA FORD SAYS SHE LEFT THE RUNAWAYS AFTER LEARNG ALL HER BANDMAT WERE GAY
- GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
LA FORD REVEALS SHE QU THE RUNAWAYS BEE HER BANDMAT 'WERE ALL GAY'
Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s bgrapher Gayle Wald quot Tharpe as sayg “Oh, the kids and rock and roll — this is jt sped up rhythm and blu. When guarist La Ford first joed The Runaways the mid-'70s at the age of jt 16, she knew nothg about homosexualy, she told HuffPost Live last week. "Ford explaed to host Alyona Mkovski that she had never been exposed to bisexualy or homosexualy, so she "wasn't sure how to take .
""I didn't know anythg about [homosexualy], and was still the closet. Nobody [back then] me out and said, 'I'm gay, '" she told HuffPost Live. "When I found out that the girls were all gay the band, I wasn't sure how to take .
JOAN JETT WIKI, NET WORTH, IS SHE LBIAN OR GAY? HERE’S EVERYTHG TO KNOW
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Personal Life – Is She Gay Or Lbian? " All of which should e as no surprise to fans who remember Townshend's 1980 solo h "Rough Boys" (above), which Rollg Stone lled "the most overtly homoerotic song his talog.
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LITA FORD SAYS SHE LEFT THE RUNAWAYS AFTER LEARNG ALL HER BANDMAT WERE GAY
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It's not like he shied away om gay life his material. " In 2001, at a Human Rights Campaign dner, the band's longtime bassist Chuck Panozzo announced that he is gay and had been livg wh HIV. Dpe pleas om FNM's handlers, Bottum me out as gay 1993.
GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Doug Pnick of Kg's X Christian rock band Kg's X had been kickg around for a few years by the time released s sophomore album, Gretchen Go to Nebraska, what many nsir to be s tone work, 1989. Speakg about her brief ex om THE RUNAWAYS forty years ago after learng that her bandmat were gay, La said: "This was the early '70s, mid-'70s, so I was not aware of homosexualy; I didn't know anythg about . And was still the closet; nobody me out and said, 'I'm gay' — nobody me out at that time.
And when I found out that the girls were all gay the band, I wasn't sure how to take , and I didn't know what was.
‘The Runaways’ too did not taste succs ially, as most people nsired them to be amatr teenagers, screamg about sex, dgs, and 1977, the band released s sophomore effort, the album ‘Queens of Noise. She also worked as an airplane pilot, veteran, tor, activist and Loundy, who 1974 beme the first mental health profsnal volved wh Gay Horizons, which eventually beme the Center on Halsted. Loundy beme executive director of Gay Horizons, helpg grow the anizatns out of a sgle basement room to one of the largt LGBTQ+ social service Nbert, a philanthropist who has helped raise hundreds of lns of dollars supportg LGBTQ+ anizatns like Equaly Illois, AIDS Foundatn Chigo, Howard Brown Health, PFLAG, the Center on Halsted and Jennifer Przker, a veteran who was vol agast the transgenr ary ban and other anti-LGBTQ+ polici.