OMG and many other of the famed in name…
By Melanie’s other personality.. I mean Mel really does NOT write like this… right? Feb 10, 2013.
Janis Ian, the lesbian poet /singer, famed for that song about being seventeen or something – happened to beat out Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama and other of famed ilk, for a Grammy tonight. Not sure if Ian is really (no I mean REALLY OUT as a lesbian.) But long ago we all kind of knew it. I must say with her talent and fame … well er… I am not sure if she has ever DONE anything for the LGBTI, gay, same-sex or whatever movement.That is anything worthy … I mean… because wah, maybe she did something somewhere sometime… I am trying to find it…. “google” help!@ a yah she did it she did Thank you Wikipedia or was that a Wiki leak? “Janis Ian came out as a lesbian in 1993 with the worldwide release of her album Breaking Silence.” she IS OUT , a lesbian Phew Okay so Lesbian wins Grammy and beats out Clinton, Obama …. that is news for the community…,right?!!!!!!
Oh and she beat the real unafraid OUT lesbian – Ellen- she beat Ellen. Sheez and I was just beginning to think she had won because she IS a Lesbian. Oy … vey…. i was wr*(&*&ng.
Best Spoken Word Album
Winner
Society’s Child: My Autobiography
Janis Ian
Label: Audible, Inc.
OTHER NOMINEES>
American Grown (Michelle Obama)
(Various Artists)
Scott Creswell & Dan Zitt, producers
Label: Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Back To Work: Why We Need Smart Government For A Strong Economy
Bill Clinton
Label: Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power
Rachel Maddow
Label: Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Seriously… I’m Kidding
Ellen DeGeneres
Label: Hachette Audio
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But she beat Rachel Maddow who has ALWAYS been out… the REALLY unafraid one.
Very cool. I loved her song, “At 17.” Made a big impression on me as I was an “ugly” girl until I was 17, then blossomed. Glad to hear she’s still creating.
Patrick Fasano
Geez, no one here is old enough to remember that Janis Ian wrote a really cool, really funny regular column for that out gay national publication, The Advocate? I’m not sure how long she wrote it (or how many years ago), but I know I dropped my subscription when she disappeared from their pages. If you go to the Advocate’s web site and do a search on Janis Ian, you’ll pull up more than a few articles. The woman is not, and has not been, closeted for many, many years. Please, don’t trash the political credentials of someone who was putting it out there _long_ before it was fashionable.
Read The Advocate articles and you were saying?