"Lauper, Others Headline Gay Rights Tour"

[GreenPartyVoter]

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"This tour is basically gonna be five hours of some of my favorite bands and me, and Margaret Cho making us laugh, and while we're touring, we're going to be raising awareness," Lauper told The Associated Press on Friday. "I think people don't know what's going on, that's all."

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The tour, sponsored by Logo, the MTV Networks channel targeting gay audiences, will provide information to fans who attend, as well as purple wristbands with the slogan "Erase Hate" from the Matthew Shepard organization, named for a gay youth killed in an apparent hate crime. A dollar from every ticket sold will be earmarked for the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people.

Lauper believes more Americans would be supportive of equal rights for gays if they knew the discrimination they faced.

"You shouldn't have to be treated badly because of your sexual orientation. Come on, we don't live in a dictatorship. This is supposed to be America, the home of the free and the brave," she says. "It can't be free for some and not for others."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070312/D8NQKTC80.html

[Lerkfish]

1. good for her and them! However, I don't think she has accurately described current conditions:

"You shouldn't have to be treated badly because of your sexual orientation. Come on, we don't live in a dictatorship. This is supposed to be America, the home of the free and the brave," she says. "It can't be free for some and not for others."


um...cyndi? hello? that's exactly what we're living in now.

good on them, though, for fighting against it.

[Sydnie]

2. I saw her on the Today Show today

http://truecolorstour.com/

and I had to go look up the tour info. I love Cyndi. Have since the 80's. This idea just doesn't surprise me at all. Seems exactly like what she would do.

Looks like a great line up too.