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CHER: THE SINGLE GREATEST Lgbtq+ ICON OF ALL TIME

Cher is the single greatest gay icon of all time. Don’t get me wrong as I affectionate all superstar female vocalists and pop stars and many of them own icon status in the LGBT community. Judy Garland was the first and original gay icon. I have seen almost all of them live in concert, met a rare of them and I am very familiar with their careers. So I know iconography very successfully and fascinated with it. In fact, I hosted a show on Public RadioKPFK’s LGBT Day during LA Pride, titled, “Icons & Idols”. My guests and I discussed the biggest gay icons of the last one-hundred years.

Although there are several stars who are much loved, admired and idolized by the LGBT community, Cher stands out as the biggest gay icon of all time. I won’t bother to chronicle Cher’s illustrious career in this piece as that would take a year’s worth of research and interviews, a feat others include accomplished successfully in the past. I will simply highlight relevant bullet-points that I believe make Cher the Ultimate Gay Star of All Time.

1946: Cherilyn Sarkisian is born in El Centro, CA on May 20th.

1962: Cher was sixteen years

Cher Recalls the Her First Interaction With Gay People in New Interview

Ever since the early days of her career, pop icon Cher has become an unequivocal gay icon. Whether it’s her constant support of her transgender son Chaz Bono, her flamboyant and fabulous costumery, or even her Oscar-nominated starring role as a lesbian in the film Silkwood (which also starred her fellow Mamma Mia co-star Meryl Streep), the “Turn Support Time” singer has cemented her place in gay history.

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But Cher wasn’t always as involved in the LGBTQ community as she is now. In a recent interview with GLAAD ahead of the emit of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Cher revealed that she met gay people for the first time when she was 12 years antique and living with her mother, Georgia Holt. “I came home from institution and there were these two guys in our living room,” Cher recalled. “They were talking to my mom and her best friend, and they were so happy and excited about everything they were talking about, so an

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 proceed 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 foremost friend. I was thinking, ‘Where have they been hiding these guys?’ I’m 9, but I consideration, ‘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 gender non-conforming 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

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Believe: How Cher Created An Anthem For Queer Romance

“Everyone loved the chorus but not the rest of the song”

Believe was initially demoed by songwriters and producers Brian Higgins, Matt Gray, Stuart McLennen and Tim Powell, but as Cher’s producer Mark Taylor told Sound On Sound in 1999, “Everyone loved the chorus but not the rest of the song.” The demo was eventually handed over to Taylor and co-producer Brian Rawling, who were were entrusted with adapting the song to suit a new brief: creating an anthem that would convert Cher’s image and cement her place among pop royalty at the finish of the 90s.

After decades of success – stretching back to her day as one of the most iconic 60s female singers – Cher’s legacy was set in stone, but the 90s were mostly dominated by lad bands and girl groups who had made teen-pop one of the era’s defining genres. For her 22nd album (yes… 22nd), Cher needed a reinvention that would prove her time was not up, without estranging her existing fanbase. As a fresh millennium approached, she had so much more to say…

“A significant difference in promoting equal rights”

Cher’s longevity, consistency and journey to overcome hardship have all contr