TheAdvocate: Coldplay’s Chris Martin joked that the all-male pop band Take That caused him to question his sexual orientation as a teenager.
The Sun reports that while Martin presented an award to Take That’s Gary Barlow during the Q awards on Monday, he spoke for a moment about his favorite bands as a teenager. “U2 and five handsome, strapping men from Stoke and Manchester,” Martin told the crowd. “I’m not afraid to admit it, they made me ask the question, ‘Am I gay?’”
When Jennifer Knapp settles in for coffee and a conversation in a midtown Manhattan apartment, a surprising Australian drawl comes tripping out of her mouth. “Do I really?” she laughs when I tell her she sounds Aussie-born and bred, even though she has roots in Kansas and music ties that are thoroughly Nashville. “I’m easing back into my Southern drawl,” she says with a laugh, but she’s not quite there yet.
The accent is earned — Knapp spent much of the past eight years living in Sydney, traveling through the outback “when I needed to be in touch with the earth.” In September 2002, Knapp, now 33, walked away from her career as a million-record-selling, multiple-Dove-award winning Christian singer-songwriter. On the lineup of the first Lilith Fair, she had crossover appeal even then, though her name is most indelibly known to the fans of “Jesus music.”
The rumors dogged her then as they dog her now. They said Jennifer Knapp canceled all her gigs and sold every inch of gear save one acoustic guitar because she was a lesbian. She stopped answering her e-mail, going months without talking even to her mother or her manager, because she was a lesbian. She dropped out of sight because she was a lesbian. And now, poised to release her first studio album in years, Jennifer Knapp is ready to face those rumors.
Advocate: Lady Gaga and Beyonce play lovers on the lam in the nine minute mini movie that accompanies their new single, “Telephone.”
Beyonce is Honey B in the video. She bails Gaga out of jail (after she gets herself into some very naughty, same-sex prison yard situations) so the two can go on another crime spree. Gaga sprinkles lesbian innuendo throughout, including a butch prison warden on a hook up site and women fighting with black duct tape over their nipples.
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Towleroad: According to former Revolution members Wendy and Lisa.
The lesbian duo give a terrific interview to OUT in which they discuss their own relationship, how Prince manipulated their image as ‘the lesbian bandmates’ back in the day and how they felt protected by it, producer Trevor Horn’s rabid homophobia, and Prince himself.
Here’s a brief excerpt:
Lisa: He was little and kinda prissy and everything. But he’s so not gay.
Wendy: He’s a girl, for sure, but he’s not gay. He looked at me like a gay woman would look at another woman.
Lisa: Totally. He’s like a fancy lesbian.
Wendy: I remember being at that “Sexuality” video shoot and him on stage with that little black jacket and that tie thing around his neck and his black pants with white buttons on the side. And we looked at each other for the first time and I thought, “Oh, I could so fall in love with that girl easy.” It doesn’t matter what sexuality, gender you are. You’re in the room with him and he gives you that look and you’re like, “Okay, I’m done. It’s over.” He’s Casanova. He’s Valentino.
You may recall Prince came under fire recently after he indicated he agreed with the most anti-gay interpretations of the Bible as a Jehovah’s Witness. According to the article, “When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, ‘God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.””
