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Jojo Siwa, Frankie Grande & More Share What Artist Made Them Realize They’re Queer | Billboard News
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6/11/2024
We caught up with some of your favorites at the GLAAD Media Awards 2024, and we found out what artists made them realize they’re queer, keep watching to see who they were!
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Who's somebody you can think of from a young age you were like, oh wait, am I? I'm queer.
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Am I gay? I mean from a young age, Lady Gaga.
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Lady Gaga.
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For me it was Lady Gaga.
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Oh, Gaga.
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It's Tetris with Billboard News. We're here at the GLAAD Awards finding out which
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artists represent the community the best and what are some of your favorite queer artists'
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queer awakenings. What's an artist that you can think back to your childhood that made you say,
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you know what, I might be queer?
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Oh.
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Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus.
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I'm sorry that you're dating.
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Currently G-Flip.
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You used to call me baby, come over. Now I'm the worst person alive.
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Love them so very much.
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When you think of other queer music icons, who comes to your mind?
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Oh, Kim Petras.
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I've been trying to give it to you all night.
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I really love her.
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Her music is like perfection.
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Yes.
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So definitely she's top for me.
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The only people that I really saw were probably Janet Jackson.
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Miss Jackson, if you're nasty.
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Nasty.
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I'm nasty.
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The Michael Jacksons and the Beyonces and the Tina Turners and the Anita Bakers.
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I could go on for days. The Rolodex is going on in my head as he asks this question.
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Madonna.
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Absolutely, hands down, no question.
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Me dancing to in my bedroom and my living room to Madonna on VHS, the Immaculate Collection VHS
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with all of her music videos and me just doing everything that she did and being like,
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"Huh, this feels too good."
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The way that I danced to Britney Spears' music was very suggestive of my queerness.
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Now I feel like the person that I am so inspired by is Chapel Rhone.
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It's so queer, it's so exciting, and it feels like she's the next hit girl.
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One band that we toured with a lot was Pansy Division.
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Pioneers when it came to just straight queer punk rock. It was amazing.
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I think for me it was like, Robin.
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Her song "Handle Me" just did something to me.
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Two people, Janelle Monae, who was a trendsetter in my mind because when she came out,
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I was like, "What?" And Prince.
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I dare anybody to say that you are more of an "man" than Prince.
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Prince in six-inch heels would do a split, get back up, play the piano, the drums,
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steal your girlfriend, get on his private jet, make a record,
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go on tour, and beat your ass in basketball.
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Absolutely.
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Make you pancakes. Yeah, I dare you to beat that.
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I was watching "Quit Playing Games" with my heart by the Backstreet Boys.
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Quit playing games with my heart. With my heart.
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You know, when they're wearing the white shirts and then it starts to rain,
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that was my gay awakening.
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It was always actors. It was like Chad Michael Murray is shirtless in this basketball scene.
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That was a sexual awakening for me.
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