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Liza Minnelli says Cher would win contest to determine No. 1 gay icon (over herself & Streisand)
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| 4/3/6
Posted on 04/03/2006 7:15:34 PM PDT by presidio9
In a contest among Liza Minnelli, Cher and Barbra Streisand to determine who's the No. 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 on 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," the 60-year-old Minnelli said as her 1972 concert Liza With a Z aired 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."
TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: barbrastreisand; cher; famoustrannies; lizaminnelli
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:15:36 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:17:40 PM PDT
by
lormand
(...the wrong person came out of the water that fateful night in Chappaquiddick)
To: presidio9
I remember seeing a special where they claimed Judy's father was gay, and her mother was quite cold - typical stage mother.
Both Judy and Liza seemed drawn to gay men.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:18:00 PM PDT
by
I still care
("For it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: I still care
Nah.Its just they were so ugly,even the lesbos didnt want them!I think it gave them a complex.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:20:15 PM PDT
by
xarmydog
To: presidio9
I saw Liza on Ellen de Generes' show . I do not watch tv. I was in a pre op waiting room, the tv was on! It made me so sad to see an old degnerate, an alchy Liza, I had to leave the room.
Absolutely the worst of the worst in us all.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:20:17 PM PDT
by
acapesket
(never had a vote count in all my years here)
To: I still care
As Kyle from South Park would say..
Thats pretty gay dude"
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:20:21 PM PDT
by
Blackirish
(Hillary is angry AND brittle.)
To: presidio9
I had forgotten that she married Peter Allen.
How many gay husbands has she had???
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:22:36 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: ClearCase_guy
I always enjoy trotting out the ol' wedding photo:
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:23:52 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: JennysCool
That looks like the Addams family on drugs.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:25:32 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: JennysCool
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:27:11 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: JennysCool
And I always enjoy seeing it (the photo.) Hey, who needs Photoshop?!
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:29:17 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: hsalaw
You know, thirty five years ago I had a thing for Liza.
I mean, I thought about her "in that way."
I feel so dirty...
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:31:05 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: presidio9
Dolly Parton and Bette Midler should be in this competition.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:34:13 PM PDT
by
LK44-40
To: JennysCool
To: presidio9
Fabouloush thread, darlingsh!
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:42:40 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: presidio9
And Liza, the freak, compares herself and name drops the other two most screwed up leftwing singers on earth, Baba & Cher! If it weren't so pathetic, I'd laugh myself to sleep.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:43:52 PM PDT
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
To: demkicker
Are they talking about who could quickest DRIVE a man to homosexuality?
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:45:34 PM PDT
by
riri
To: presidio9
"I think probably Barbra and maybe even Cher and myself in school felt like outcasts..."I'm afraid you dozed through English class, Liza.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:47:18 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President Bush and his surveillance program.)
To: presidio9
Oh, Judy Garland - what a fabulous woman! Oh, if only I could keep her figure...
To: JennysCool
Their Botox treatments clash.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:51:02 PM PDT
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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