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How Selena Became An LGBTQ Icon
This weekend in Corpus Christi thousands attended Fiesta de la Flor– the celebration that celebrates the late singer Selena.
This month seems to be all about Selena. It’s the anniversary of her death. She was 23 years old when she was killed in 1995. And it’s also the 20th anniversary of the emit of a bio-pic about her, starring Jennifer Lopez.
During her short life, Selena’s songs and persona appealed to thousands of people.
But in the years since her death, she’s been embraced by the LGBTQ community in general and by one woman in particular
In a YouTube video, the auditorium is pitch black. Dialogue from the 1997 Selena movie plays in the darkness. Suddenly a bright white spotlight hits center stage, discovering Honey Andrews. Selena’s 1992 hit “Como La Flor” floods the venue and Andrews starts dancing. The crowd erupts into applause and cheers as Andrews shows off her shadowy leather pants and a bedazzled red bra.
Media outlets like Fusion and Cosmopolitan have argued that Andrews is one of the country’s best Selena impersonators. Andrews performs iconic Selena choreography, and lip-syn
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I have vivid childhood memories. And like so many Mexican-Americans raised in South Texas during the 1990s, many of those memories are tied to Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.
Selena felt like a member of our families — a partner, a wife, a daughter, a sister. Growing up, role models were rigid to come by for Mexican-Americans. But Selena wasn’t just someone who looked like us; she was someone who felt like us, too.
My introduction to Selena y Los Dinos came in 1989, when I was just 5 years mature , and I first heard the lyric “Contigo Quiero Estar” on the radio. A few weeks later, I had a chance to see the band perform live in my hometown of Laredo.
But it wasn’t just the music that captivated me that night; it was Selena herself. Her charismatic personality was larger than life, and her stage presence was magnetic. What I admired most, though, was her authenticity: She was real, humble and genuine. Selena showed me that accomplishment didn’t require compromising your core standards or changing who you were.
Her music was the soundtrack to my childhood, and to say I was just a fan wou
Netflix’s new Selena: The Series features all-inclusive Latinx representation both on and off the screen. For openly gay Season 2 journalist Raymond Arturo Perez, being part of the show is the culmination of a journey that started early in his childhood.
“I have always been fascinated by film and television, but particularly film,” he says. “Since my parents were usually working around the clock, I was often by myself with either my toys or the television. Fond of many other writers in the industry, I feel like television was a third parent for me.”
Watching more mature, diverse TV shows as a teenager made Perez’s passion for the art really blossom. Those shows sparked deep family conversations on topics such as homophobia and racism to occur naturally, Perez recalls. It was then that he realized the influence that TV and film can have in households across the world.
“That is the power of television,” he says. “These are the kinds of conversations that we’re having in our household, so conceive the kinds of conversations that are happening elsewhere. I wanted to be part of that.”
But Perez never imagined that his love for TV and movie would take him down the path of recountin
Selena Gomez Talks Female homosexual Rumors and Admits Her Gay Friends Encouraged Her to Date Nick Jonas
Selena Gomez is opening up -- literally.
While promoting her latest album, Revival, the former Disney celestial body got candid with LGBT outlet PrideSource about her association with model Cara Delevingne.
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"She's incredible and very open and she just makes me open," Gomez gushed. "She’s so fun and she’s just extremely adventurous, and sometimes I just want that in my life."
Delevingne helped Gomez rejoice her 22nd birthday last year on a yacht in St. Tropez, where the two were spotted showering together, which ignited female homosexual rumors.
Gomez addressed the gay buzz with PrideSource, saying, "I didn't mind it. I loved it."
The actress/singer went on to say that she has "absolutely" questioned her sexuality: "I think it’s healthy to secure a perspective on who you are deep down, ask yourself and question yourself; it’s vital to do that," Gomez stated.
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Gomez covered even more queer gro