see you straights are just afraid we'll take over..... ;)
tori goes on........
Let’s talk about your gay and lesbian fan base. Do you have a sense of why gay and lesbian fans are drawn to your music or your sensibility? Is it an outsider perspective?
Everybody is ready to judge you guys, man… People have such an issue and they bring up the Bible and they bring up this and they bring up that, and their arguments are very weak, because Jesus, the last time I checked, was about compassion. And I see very little compassion when Christians, or any other religion for that matter, are self-righteous and judge the gay and lesbian community. I find it incredibly condescending, just as an on-looker. There are a lot of same-sex relationships that I think are far more sacred than anything in the heterosexual community, but this means that your community carries a lot on its shoulders. If you’re not going to wear people’s opinions like a second skin, then you better be reaching for something other than people’s harsh judgments. You better be reaching for, I would say, the tools to take you to the next part of your journey, which ultimately is wholeness with yourself.
It seems that a lot of what organized religion did to women is the same thing that society has done to gays and lesbians. I wonder if that’s an area where your music connects with gays and lesbians.
That’s a good point because women [were prominent] in the early Christian church, as I’m sure you know. When I was making The Beekeeper I did a lot of study that there were women prophets, and I always saw Mary Magdalene as a prostitute but as a prophet, and that was not profitable for the early church. Because clearly they needed women to be subservient if they were going to construct the patriarchy, no different than Rome was, they just needed to do it through Christianity, and therefore that’s how the structured church developed… If the gay and lesbian community were fully empowered-think about it-they would be bringing forth ideas and concepts. Other people might have to go back to their closets and open them and see what’s truly there instead of pointing the finger at you guys. And it’s no different than when women are sitting at the roundtable saying, “You know what, guys, I’m not going to hold this issue for you, I disagree with you, and I have a voice at this roundtable, and I’m going to speak.” You might just make people uncomfortable with what you have to say. Let’s face it, if everybody were truly comfortable with ourselves, we wouldn’t have any problem with you guys, would we now?
there are a million reason i love her......this is just one.