Edmonton Journal
2004.11.30
C2
Richard Starnes
lang kisses and tells about wild lesbian sex life:
Self-confessed 'rampant romantic' insists now she's faithful to her partner of more than three years
OTTAWA - k.d. lang has confessed to a wild lesbian sex life in the early 1990s.
Self-confessed 'rampant romantic' insists now she's faithful to her partner of more than three years
OTTAWA - k.d. lang has confessed to a wild lesbian sex life in the early 1990s.
"I wouldn't say I was a slut," she admitted in an interview with The Scotsman. "I was a rampant romantic.
"Mind you, Madonna did refer to me as the Warren Beatty of lesbians once."
The latest confession is nothing new for the Alberta-born music star, whose life has been littered with remarkable incidents, many of them draped around her
freely admitted lesbianism.
"I did the Hollywood thing for a while," she admitted to writer Simon Gage before a concert date this week in Glasgow. "But it really is a lot
of work. It's upkeep. It's having to have the best clothes, having the best girlfriend, having the best car, having the best body, having no
wrinkles, the best Botox doctor. And I'm so not interested in any of that."
Over the years, 43-year-old lang has leaked many of the secrets of her life in a variety of interviews with magazines and newspapers around the world.
First public inklings of her lesbian tendencies surfaced in 1975, when her affair with the wife of one of her teachers became the talk of the tiny town of
Consort, population 650. She says she was not aware that lesbianism was anything different until she was 15 or 16.
"I know it was wrong with someone who is married. I knew we had to keep it private. We had to sneak. Which is sooo sexy. I love sneaking. She was 23. I
think she finally came out. Then I had a couple of lovers and then I had a high school sweetheart."
Lang studied music at Red Deer College, made her first country album at age 22 and, in 1986, recorded the duet Crying with Roy Orbison. It went gold.
But the country music world did not warm to the punk-style, short-haired, double-breasted-suit-wearing woman. By 1992, lang had moved away from country and
it paid off with the smash Constant Craving on her album Ingenue.
That was when a photo shoot with Vanity Fair sealed her position as an international icon of lesbianism.
The magazine cover carried a picture of lang, dressed in a dark suit, nestling her head into the breasts of super model Cindy Crawford, dressed in a
swimsuit.
Crawford, who'd been rumoured to be having an affair with Christy Turlington the year before, later shared a $35,000 advertisement in the London Times
with then-husband Richard Gere in which they proclaimed: "We are heterosexual and monogamous and take our commitment to each other very seriously."
For lang, the move carried her into the lofty realm of showbiz stars whose gender is called into question.
As she admitted in the American gay and lesbian magazine The Advocate, "That's my job! To transcend gender ... Art transcends gender. As an artist,
it's imperative that you go right past the genitals and right into the heart."
Today, lang says she has been in a relationship for more than three years with a woman she met after adopting Buddhism. She refuses to talk about it but is
adamant she is a faithful partner.
, super
knowlegeable Milly
