P!nk is the Advocate’s new cover girl, and in her cover interview the pop badass discusses --signature no-nonsense P!nk parlance --her new album The Truth About Love, motherhood and marriage, her LGBT fans and labeling – specifically the media’s persistence in attempting to label her as bisexual. She does however chat about her lesbian “girlfriends” of yore, although whether she means girlfriends or female friends in the sense that many women and gay men use the term is totally in the mind of the reader.
Regarding the media’s obsession with labels P!nk tells the Advocate that she hopes there comes a time when the media begins to pay more attention to a woman’s accomplishments, like whether a woman is a CEO, rather than if she’s bisexual. But she does say that LGBT visibility is critical for young people.
“I think it’s totally important. I don’t think every celebrity needs to have [a cause], I just think it’s great when they do.”
A long-time ally and support of the LGBT community and someone who’s worked with GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and YouthAIDS to name a few, she also touched on how her LGBT fans, particularly her lesbian and bisexual female fans, have been her most devoted supporters:
“They’ve been the most loyal part of what I do. They’ve been my most loyal friends, to be honest. I’ve had a lot of my gay boys around, but my gay girls are my rootstalk. They’re my honesty in an ocean of bullshit. I should be gay by the way that I look and the way that I am. I just happen to not be. But it just makes perfect and complete sense.”
On the space between butch and femme she claims with her tats, buff body, buzzed hair and multiple piercings P!nk says, “Fucking-A right! And we can be androgynous and be butch and be muscular and be one of the guys but also be feminine and beautiful and do all this crazy shit and talk shit. It’s awesome.” She goes on to comment on being the new Cover Girl and just what that means for honorary and lesbians alike. “It’s like, ‘Fuck you, world! We’re awesome. I told you we’d get invited to the party one day!”
The “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” singer also commented on the kerfuffle a few years ago when The News of the World fabricated an interview with P!nk claiming that she had openly discussed being bisexual. At the time, she took to the airwaves to refute The News of The World’s claim. Regarding the whole incident P!nk told the Advocate, “Honestly, I’ve never defined myself. I’ve never felt the need to. I still don’t. It’s just like how everyone’s like, ‘Well, what kind of music do you do?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t. I just do it.’ And fuck it, if you can’t understand it, I’m a mystery bag.”
P!nk, a Pennsylvania native, does say that she had a whole lot of lesbian “girlfriends” when she first moved to Los Angeles:
“I loved my little girlfriends and we kissed and we had a great time and we held hands. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was an honorary lesbian of Los Angeles. I wasn’t gay, but all my girlfriends were. So no, it wasn’t a big deal for me, but when [a tabloid] comes out and says, I just said I was bisexual, it’s like what? That wasn’t my truth, and I like truth. I like absolute truth.”
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