While accepting an award at the Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner in Los Angeles Saturday night. Katy Perry 32, revealed there was more to her 2008 Hit song " i kissed a girl"..she said " i did more than that", she also said she spent summers at "Jesus Camps" trying to pray the gay away....
Read reports from NYDN:
Though the “Chained to the Rhythm” singer, who recently split from orlando bloom,
has become more outspoken about sexuality, there was a time the
“California Gurl” was a devout Catholic who says she spent her summers
at “Jesus camps” trying to “pray the gay away.”
“Truth be told, I did more than
that,” the 32-year-old singer said in reference to her first hit. “But
how was I going to reconcile that with the gospel-singing girl raised in
youth groups that were pro-conversion camps? What I did know was I was
curious, and even then I knew sexuality was not as black and white as
this dress. But in 2008, when that song came out, I knew that I started a
conversation, and a lot of the world seemed curious enough to sing
along, too.”Perry, whose dress comment was referencing her ruffled
attire for the night, went on to praise the people she encountered upon
entering the music industry for allowing her to expand outside “her
bubble” and inspired her new, open-minded outlook on sexuality.
Perry was on hand to accept the
National Equality Award for her work in the LGBTQ community, which she
gushed over in a pair of tweets following Saturday’s ceremony.
“I will never cease to be a champion,
an ally, a spotlight and a loving voice for all LGBTQ-identifying
people,” she wrote. “I feel sparkly as f—! Truth be told, I think a lot
of that has to do with the magic that has rubbed off on me, from all of
you.”
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