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Kesha has always made music for the ones who don’t quite fit — the glitter-covered misfits, the too-loud, the still-figuring-it-out. You know, the animals, as she calls them.

So it feels like more than coincidence that she’s rolling into Pine K**b on June 5, right in the thick of Pride Month, with The Freedom Tour and “Origami!,” a new single that is unashamedly h***y and campy and completely unbothered.

In this conversation — one of her most candid — Kesha talks about what it actually means to be q***r, and how long it took to figure that out. She reflects on growing up in Nashville, dragging her mom from church to church looking for a community that didn’t come with conditions and eventually finding her people at a punk rock drag bar in California. And she talks about what, after that search, it feels like to now stand on a stage with a Pride flag behind her and a whole sea of q***r people in front of her.

Read Kesha’s full interview with at pridesource.com, all you beautiful animals. 🦄

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When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Michigan’s civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people into law, her gay daughter Sherry was standing right beside her. “Signing that law so that she would be protected — as would everyone else in the LGBTQ+ family — felt really good,” Whitmer told Pride Source.

Before the signing, Whitmer nervously asked Sherry how to refer to her during it. Sherry texted back: “LOL, Gretchen, you’re ridiculous.” After some clarification: “You refer to me as a gay woman or a le***an, please.” Whitmer responded: “Thank you for the advice, gay woman.” Sherry’s reply: “You’re welcome, non-community member.”

And the woman who helped make the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act amendment happen isn’t done yet: “I ain’t going anywhere and I’m not leaving the fight.”

Read the full interview — link in comments. 🌈

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