Entertainment News
2006-04-04
Liza: Cher's a
bigger gay icon
In a contest
between Liza Minnelli, Cher, and Barbra Streisand to
determine who’s the number 1 gay icon, Cher would
win&
In a contest
between Liza Minnelli, Cher, and Barbra Streisand to
determine who’s the number 1 gay icon, Cher would
win—or so Minnelli says. “I think
probably Barbra and maybe even Cher and myself in school
felt like outcasts because we didn't have standard
looks,” Minnelli told Newsweek for its
issue hitting newsstands Monday. “Maybe what a
gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for—in other
words, cheered on—by people who feel
different,” Minnelli said as her legendary 1972
concert Liza With a Z airs on Showtime and
comes out this week on DVD.
But being a gay
icon doesn't necessarily mean “gaydar” comes
with the turf. She says she didn't find out until two
weeks after she married her first husband, Peter
Allen, that he was gay. “Honey, I was 17 when I met
him,” Minnelli told Newsweek. “But I
was the last one to see him before he died because we
stayed friends, and that was tough.”
She may be a
legend, but Minnelli said she mingles with all the classes.
“One of my best friends is a taxi driver; another is
a maintenance man,” she said. “I go
everywhere. People are wonderful. They say hi and I say
hi, and we keep going. That’s New York.” (AP)
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