Melissa Etheridge will never forget the first time she stepped into a gay bar. She was 18 years old when she walked through the doors of a Boston nightclub called The Prelude in 1979. “It was frigh…
She was 18 years old when she walked through the doors of a Boston nightclub called The Prelude in 1979. “It was frightening,” the music icon tells me. “But the second time I went in, I was like, ‘OK, my people. I’m home.’”
I talked to Etheridge on the carpet at the American Music Awards on Sunday afternoon. It’s not even 24 hours since we learned the horrific news that a gunman killed five people and injured at least 25 others during a late-night mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. “My love goes out to all my brothers and sisters in Colorado Springs,” Etheridge said. “This problem we have in our society – the fear of others – is an epidemic and a disease. To say that people who are different are to be feared created this sort of event.”said she first found acceptance at queer clubs.
Petras, who grew up in Germany and is now based in Los Angeles, called for stricter gun control in the U.S. “The only place where I feel accepted and free is a gay club,” she said. “Something needs to be done.”
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