Cyndi lauper is she gay
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on July 2013
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) may have just been struck down, but pop star Cyndi Lauper has been ahead of the curve on gay rights for decades.
“I got into it because when I chant for people I watch their faces, I catch them, it’s not enjoy I’m blind,” she says from her home in New York City ahead of an appearance at the Summer Sonic festival near Tokyo on August 11. “I thought they [LGBTs] were a imaginative group of people, and as I got to know them I got to see something was wrong. It upset me that no one else was saying anything.”
Lauper created her True Colors Tour for Human Rights in 2007 and 2008, named after the title road of her second album, “True Colors,” a ballad that had become an anthem for the LGBT community. The nationwide tour featured artists like Deborah Harry and the B-52s. She followed that up with her True Colors fund to support anti-LGBT discrimination.
“One thing led to another and we did the tour,” says Lauper, who had been committed in gay rights movement for years and whose sister is a female homosexual. “Then we decided after the tour that people still needed help, so we opened the fund. Then we realized
Two LGBT country tune blogs in a row? Who woulda thunk it possible?! Perhaps only Cyndi Lauper could build this happen. 🙂
But in celebrating #PrideWeek and honoring Cyndi Lauper’s 63rd birthday today, we stumbled across the tidbit that her latest album, “Detour,” is a country release! Whut?!?
While, Lauper isn’t lgbtq+, she has been an ardent fighter for gay rights. She said that she became dedicated to the cause because her sister is gay, as adequately as are many friends. In 2011, she started the True Colors Residence in New York Town, which is housing for LGBT youth between the ages of 18 to 24. She also started the Give a Damn Campaign in order to educate heterosexual people about the LGBT youth homeless obstacle. And, in 2012, she was invited to be NYC’s Pride March grand marshal.
Impressive efforts! Read more about Lauper’s latest album here.
We are writing features all week in celebration of #PrideWeek. Did you catch our earlier pieces?
Meanwhile, why not enjoy Lauper’s beautiful son “True Colors,” a number one hit and Grammy Nominated number — also, and perhaps for obvious reasons, a standard in the gay c
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by Rex Wockner
National News Briefs
Pop singer Cyndi Lauper told The Times of London on Aug. 2 that she had to reach out as straight.
"My sister was gay, my best friends were same-sex attracted, so I figured I had to be gay," she said. "So I did everything they did. I tried kissing girls. But it didn't perceive right for me and eventually I was forced to come out as a heterosexual."
Lauper also launched a broadside against George W. Bush.
"When I hear people appreciate George Bush talk about the gay community existence anti-American it makes my blood boil," she said.
"The guy who saved the White House, one of the heroes who crashed that plane on 9/11, was gay — the rugby player Stamp Bingham, who died on United 93. And does Bush ever mention that? … That gay guy saved his lousy ass."
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Cyndi Lauper has sold more than 50 million records, but has become just as celebrated for her longtime advocacy for LGBT rights. Cyndi has always asserted that she became involved in gay rights lobbying, because her sister Ellen is a lesbian, but this is married to her passion for equality, which she has advocated around the world.
Her ballad 'Above the Clouds' celebrates the memory of Matthew Shepard, a young male beaten to death in Wyoming because he was male lover. As a member of the Matthew Shepard Foundation Board, Lauper devoted a concert tour in 2005 to promoting the Foundation's message.
Her True Colors Tour for Human Rights crossed t
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“When I was a teenager, all my friends came out [gay]. And then I figured, ‘Okay, me, too!’ And then, afterwards, it was like, ‘Oh, It’s not really my thing.’ And then I had to tell them I was straight…. They were gonna ditch me, and then they did ditch me. And then, when my sister came out, ‘I was fond of, you’re not ditching me! I don’t care….’
“[The song,] ‘True Colors’ is just one of them healing songs, and I never realized what it meant to the community. When I first heard it and started singing it, I actually lost one of my dear friends, Gregory. And he died of AIDS in 1985. So, when I went in to sing ‘True Colors,’ I was thinking of him….
“I was having a discussion with my friend about inclusion…. Assess about the gay society, and think about how excluded they are…. I’m friends and family of, so what are you supposed to do? Survey your friends and family be discriminated against and have their civil rights chipped away, little by little by little — and not say anything?…