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Pink: "I'm not embarrassed about being bisexual. This is who I am."

UPDATE: Pink now denies reports by a British tabloid that she came out as bisexual. She did it first via her Twitter page, then via her rep telling NYDN that the interview was "entirely fabricated". Oh well, to be honest I do not think Pink would have been afraid of coming out if she is indeed bisexual. So probably she is straight. In any case, she spoke out against homophobia and for gay rights in past.
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"I'm not embarrassed about being bisexual. This is who I am. Love is pure and I try to keep it that way. This is who I am, what I feel. "I think it's unnecessary to draw the subject out, but I think it even more stupid not to discuss it. It seems as if bisexuality is a trend and I should whip up the masses. Well, I don't believe in trends, I just believe in me."

"My love knows no colour, no gender, no fuss."

"I speak my mind, I sing about everyday stuff such as homosexuality and sadly the homophobia that always comes with it."

Pink, speaking to the News Of The World

Apparently, this is the first time she is speaking out so openly and straightforwardly about her sexuality. I love Pink! She is an inspiring singer. A singer who is great both on-stage and off-stage.

*source of photo - Pink's website

Singer Pink, comedian Cho and McCain's Palin

Pink did it again; that's why I love her. Here is what she has to say to the US Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate (VP's choice) Sarah Palin:

"If I were writing a letter to Sarah Palin," Pink told PopEater during her Sessions taping on Thursday, "it would be a lot of whys and hows. Who are you? Do you know? Why do you hate animals? Please point out Iraq on a map ..."

What scares Pink are women who consider the Alaska governor's selection a feminist victory. "This woman hates women," the singer said. "She is not a feminist. She is not the woman that's going to come behind Hillary Clinton and do anything that Hillary Clinton would've been capable of ... I can't imagine overturning Roe vs. Wade. She's not of this time. The woman terrifies me."

Pink, an animal rights activist, suggests creatures other than humans should be just as scared of Palin: "I can't imagine shooting a wolf out of a helicopter."

Last year her message ('probing questions') to the US president Bush was as straightforward and powerful. It was a song - Dear Mr President... (I posted it in April 2007). According to some reports, it proved to be so controversial that has been unofficially banned from radio stations across the US back then.



Comedian Margaret Cho's choice of words was even more extreme:

"I think [Palin] is the worst thing to happen to America since 9-11,” Cho said. "Someone who has no thoughts about women's rights and who wants to send women back to the Stone Age? You might as well not let women vote. I came out of the Democratic convention feeling so proud and excited, but now I fear that our country is so backwards in so many ways and the ignorance that exists is greater than we can even imagine.” [...]

"The reach of homophobia and hatred is so wide, it's disturbing how deep it is,” Cho said. “Now with Sarah Palin, who is so anti-gay and advocated camps for them to go to be brainwashed, she is a real sign of something very wrong with this country, a real problem. We are battling homophobia on so many fronts." [...]

She worries that the Republicans will "probably fix the election again" and feels that their vice-presidential pick of Sarah Palin was meant to "appease disgruntled Hillary voters." In Cho's opinion, the consequences of voting for the so-called "pitbull with lipstick" will be disastrous.