• ELIXHER
• On August 22, 2013

Artist Janelle Monae, known for her gender-bending style and futuristic soul-meets-funk music, appears on the cover of UK-based lesbian publicaton, Diva Magazine. Inside she talks her support for the LGBT community and her connection to queer folks:

“I think we are all… um… part of each other and when someone from the queer community is discriminated against, or not treated like a human being, it bothers me. As a woman, a black woman, there are parallels to that. I mean, my community, being an African-American, we’ve had to deal with slavery, Jim Crow laws – my ancestors dealt with that. So I connect all the dots, between the ex-communicated, the untouchables, the immigrants and the negroids. As different as we may look or feel, we are all connected. So I guess that we do feel connected to the queer community, and as an artist I should speak out against things that are evil. To me, treating someone as if they are less than you is an evil act. It’s my job to use my platform to speak out against it.”

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