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After being introduced to Cher on the phone as her “old friend Chris” by Cher’s longtime publicist Liz Rosenberg, there is only one sensible way for me to respond: “Hello, old friend Cher.”
Calling Cher an mature friend to Cher feels completely natural — skillfully, almost. There is at least some familiarity in knowing her off the phone too, through a treasure trove of a half-century’s worth of esthetic contributions, even if the icon is a higher pop culture power. But then, at the similar time, the enduring queer icon has also been like an old partner to those in the LGBTQ+ community, including me.
Just a couple of years after coming out at 18, I saw my first Cher concert with my mom, who brought Cher into my nature when I was a young kid, before I felt confident enough to tell her I was gay (weird to consider that now even Cher knows I’m gay). The 2002 show at the Palace of Auburn Hills, part of her not-so-farewell “Farewell Tour,” is one of my earliest memories of finding other lgbtq+ people outside of male-for-male AOL chat rooms — so many gay Cher fans in one huge space, a glittery, strutting pop goddess our master of ceremoni
Cher explains why gay men love her
Whilst accepting the 2013 ‘Legend’ award from gay British magazine Attitude Awards in London, queer icon Cher spoke out on why she believes that gay men and the gay community contain loved her for the span of her career.
“Gay men especially … either love you or they don’t even notice that you’re on the space body. I think what you guys like, is you like a strong gal that’s having a breakdown constantly, and that certainly is me. Judy Garland’s got nothing on me.”
Cher attributed her love for gay men to her first experience of encounter them: “I was nine years old and my mother had these two friends who came over…they were hairdressers of course … who came cha cha’ing into our front door, and in the beginning I thought male lover was code for entertainment … and I said to my mom, why are these guys so much more fun than the rest of your friends?”
The 67-year-old superstar has a lot to rejoice these days. Her latest album, “Closer to the Truth,” became the highest-charting of her career; in addition to her advising role on “The Voice,” Cher is preparing for her Dressed
Cher Thanks LGBTQ Community For Longtime Back During ‘Ups and Downs in My Career’: ‘You Guys Never Left Me’
Cher’s ties to the LGBTQ community leave back even further than you might think.
“The first gay guys I ever met, I was 9 years old,” she said Thursday night at West Hollywood’s The Abbey, at a celebration for the bar’s new owner, Tristan Schukraft. “I walked into my house and there were these two guys there and they started talking to my mom and mom’s finest friend. I was thinking, ‘Where have they been hiding these guys?’ I’m 9, but I mind, ‘Wait a minute… why aren’t the other guys as funny as these guys?’ It really was love at first sight.”
Cher went on to thank the homosexual community for its longtime support. “One thing I have to say that is serious, that is from the heart, is that I’ve had really ups and downs in my career – I mean, really! – and you guys never left me,” she said. “So thank you.”
The “Believe” singer entered The Abbey performing her 2002 single, “Song for t
Cher is so low-key about being Cher that calling her is like calling your mom. "Hi," she purrs with signature simplicity when I phone her presidential suite in overdue August. We are speaking matter-of-factly about gay things, political things, Twitter things ("I'm finished with the emojis that we have"). About going to Walgreens and trying to retain why she went to Walgreens. This seems so very … normal?
Certainly, Cher is the most multi of multi-hyphenates – fiery human rights activist, Auto-Tune pioneer, a unicorn, the Phoenix – but no, not at all normal. Not from down here, where we've basked in the long-reigning diva's treasure trove of motion picture and music and bedazzled Bob Mackie costumes, and admired her ability to get down, do a five-minute plank (seriously), and somehow get back up again. That motion is the time-tested motion of Cher's enduring six-decade career. It's where grit meets guts meets glitter.
Our Oz, our Wonderland; a reliable, shimmering space providing escapist refuge since the 1960s, a span which has seen Sonny (Bono, her late ex-husband) and Cher, anthemic rock and lgbtq+ dance, inventions and reinventions – Cher's mere being brought us closer to those w
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