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Jackson Talks Gay Rumors, Drag Queens

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Posted: 2008-04-22 12:22:54
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(April 22) - Janet Jackson is honored for the support she's received from the gay community over the years and chalks up persistent rumors that she's a lesbian to her being a woman of "strength."

"I don't know," the 41-year-old singer mused to E! Online when asked why she and other women like Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys were perceived as gay. "Maybe they want to put something else behind it because of the strength. Like, you can't be a woman and be strong, and there has to be something else to it."

Jackson, who will be presented the Vanguard Award from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance on Saturday, said she doesn't remember the first time she was asked if the rumors bothered her, but does recall her answer: "Why should it bother me?" She has been in a relationship with record producer Jermaine Dupri since 2004.

Janet Gives 'Feedback'

On being an icon in the gay community, Jackson said she "never thought" of herself like that. "It never even crossed my mind when people started calling me icon and legend and all this other stuff," she said.

Jackson, whose hits include "Miss You Much" and "Black Cat," also marvels at all her male fans that dress to the nines, master her moves and perform in drag shows across the country.

"They really study you," she said of the drag queens. "But you know, they pour it on more, which I absolutely love. They give more than I do and I love that."

One such performance, she said, had a motivating effect on her and her backup dancers.

"Afterward, I said to my dancers, 'We've gotta pull up because these bitches are hitting it. They're giving so much femininity and we look like boys onstage.' The next night we had a show and we were trying our hardest to ooze with that feminine touch."

The singer, like millions of other Americans, is keeping up with this year's increasingly heated presidential election, but is holding back on an endorsement.

"I kind of have an idea, but I am going to keep that to myself," she told E!. "I really haven't for sure said, 'This is it.' I'm swaying definitely one way more than the other.

She's had ten No. 1 hit singles, six chart-topping albums and a successful movie and TV career. So, is there anything left for Jackson to conquer?

"I would love to do a musical," she said. "I just want to do a musical that touches on everything—something that's funny and dramatic, but definitely a musical."



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Little red house 09:51:22 PM Apr 28 2008

comments like these are why I turned my back on my German culture at age 14 after listening to 2 fellow students call me a Nazi etc when they thought I could'nt understand. It ia far too easy to generalize and blame.

hmrmdy 09:22:21 PM Apr 28 2008

how do you define real?
if real is what you can see, touch, feel, or taste..
then reality is simply chemical signals translated by your brain....
what is real?
silence is real..
listen.......
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
the answer is right in front of you..
when you stop searching, the answer will be exposed as having always been there...
You knew the tuth when you were born,,
then siciety confused You,,,
remeber yourself...
and remember the truth..
then this blog and my words and all of this..will be meaningless...
just ripples on the ocean of life...
tying you down and keeping you from being who you really are.
break free.
it is all a lie...
stop your mind
then think...
this thought will be your truth...
ad infitum
g u r u...
be!!!!!

cstuck56 09:14:59 PM Apr 28 2008

get real

hmrmdy 09:14:39 PM Apr 28 2008

foundation series by Aasimov is so much better.
We live in a dream
wake up before it's too late..
Water will swallow this place..
water will swallow YOU!!!
breathe...
you think that is air? you are breathing?
hmmmmm...

hmrmdy 09:12:23 PM Apr 28 2008

this blog is so dead..
think I'll go visualize Obama as president...
might accompish something tonight..
You ewall want another Clinton LIAR?
Impeached, whitewater, people murdered, wow, how soon we forget...
CVriminals..the Cluntons..criminals..
oh well...
i'll be dead in 20 or thirty years, so who cares?
right?
Reagan was popular too..
but He can't rmember..
and the father and som team..
well they cry so well in their final speeches...
the blood on their hands will never be removed.
Judgement day will come for us all...
Thank God.
Obamarama...
next we should elect a mexican..
siesta's, tacos. arriba...
oh yeah...
estados unitados Americanos de mexicanos...
red bull is coming..
get ready
remember the Alamo...
men who died for nothing...
to be sold out by the leaders of their future..
they died for nothing..
and so we will live for nothing,,,
and soon...
water will swallow this place.
water will swallow YOU...
muad dib lives...
:D
arrakis..dune....spice...
nice reality...
Foundation se

hmrmdy 08:55:02 PM Apr 28 2008

actually, we are all homo-sexual..
just bcause a person is born with a male body, or a female body..
humans are all still the same...
our souls have no sex..
we are pupils..pupae...lifeforms in a chrysalis...
being taught in this life, so we can move on into the next..
removing the gentic, physiogical, and peer pressured training, we are all the same...
so we are all homosexual...
everyone is ,,,a,,,,one..
a person..
a soul
a piece of God...
there is no such thing as man or woman..except in the limited description of the short term existence on earth as human beings.
in the big picture..
we are all..ONE..

hmrmdy 08:49:01 PM Apr 28 2008

homosexuality is great birth control..
seems China will enjoy thi soon..
they have millions more males born than females..
pretty soon China will be the hershey highway of the 21st century...
God was so intelliegent..
to make homosexuality possible. This way God has reversed our over population...
eroded the hormone dictated co-dependence of Love, and allowed humans to be what they want to be.
God is so wise.
I am sure He/Ahe will be glad to see our population decrease, and will also enjoy seeing the forgiveness and non=-judgemantal attitudes of his children.
All in all, who knows why people are gay?
easy way out?
Hereditary?

Bad childhood experiences?
At least humans are lucky enough to be able to overcome genetic harwiring in their brains, and not just follow the "heat" cycle..
At least humans are capable of making mistakes..
this is our greatest strength..lol
Chaos breeds change...
and growth...
someday homo's will be remembered as .....
well, they willl be remembered...
the missin

mechicago 08:42:34 PM Apr 28 2008

hmrmdy homosexuality is a good thing.this way the human race can stop reproducing, and the earth can recover from the scourge of our existence..
the more the gayer...\ homsexuality leads to the death ofa species...
abour time... adios hermanos..
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Reads like idiot mentality. Gays have been around since the beginning of time, and guess what? There still plenty of people on this earth. Over 6 billion. So, no need for you to worry that the human race will die out. There's plenty of straight folk producing children.

hmrmdy 08:37:52 PM Apr 28 2008

if you love them..then love them
don't worry about the human race..
it is destined for failure anyway...
just a peak in evilution..
less imprtant than termites..
if one species was to nbe wiped off of earth,,
hunans would be the first choice..
they help nothing
destroy everythign,,
and yet think they ar Gids..
love the on your with,,
and say goodbye...
the Omega is coming soon, to destroy the Alpha...
in this.."it is Finished"

hmrmdy 08:34:06 PM Apr 28 2008

ever seen any homosexula cows?or elephants..
or giraffes?
well, they will continue to thrive..
only humans, given free will, will destroy themselves in the cop-out of homosexuality..
yeah..
so you can't make a bond with the opposite sex?
well,take the easy way out..
be gay...
and look in the mirror every night, and kow that you are less than human..
less tyhan an animal
you hace given ib to.....pacifism...
you have given in to...amoeba like behaviour..
worms..
give it up..
if you can't find a way to find a life partner of the opposite sex, then you are part ogf the problem..
and will become part of the solution..
death of the human species.
anyway, god still loves You..
He is just shaking his head..
lol
keep it clean...
good luck..
bravo for pubnlic announcement of your gay love.
this is something..
yet it is nothin..but confusion...
maybe your mother shold have taken patenting lessons..
otherwise..
watch how ROme fell...
and Greece..
rvry country that accepts homosexuality, flls in a

hmrmdy 08:26:25 PM Apr 28 2008

banaly anal..so sad..
i gues love is thicker than water,,
and blood.
and hormones,
and Dna..
Love will destroy all...lol
amazing...
enjoy your rump roast..
soon it will burn in the fire..
amd innocent humans will remain, to rebuild our socity..
hopefully. the nre generstion eill svoid greed, envy,jealousy, and homosexuality..
maybe our chldren will be normal....
a new earth...

hmrmdy 08:23:38 PM Apr 28 2008

homosexuality is a good thing.this way the human race can stop reproducing, and the earth can recover from the scourge of our existence..
the more the gayer...\
homsexuality leads to the death ofa species...
abour time...
adios hermanos..

mechicago 08:01:37 PM Apr 28 2008

billinin Being gay is a choice and your NOT born with it. Im so tired of hearing the lies.........
---------------
Talking about lies and then telling me and millions of other gays that we choose to be gay is a LIE. When did you choose to be straight? Why would someone choose to be gay? Bigots always spout that gays choose to be gay, but when asked the 2 questions above they have no answer.

arobre 10:09:45 AM Apr 28 2008

Yes they look like lesbian, so what!!

drmscapr 09:59:47 AM Apr 28 2008

the jealousy from those who have nothing and can,t do anything!

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