R.I.P. Lesley Gore! If there’s a heaven, the choir just got that much better.“It

R.I.P. Lesley Gore! If there’s a heaven, the choir just got that much better.“It was also at Sarah Lawrence that Gore realized that she was a lesbian. Before college, she later explained, she simply had never had the time to examine her true feelings. "I had boyfriends,” she said. “I was scheduled to get married … All of that was part of the agenda at the time … Part of the problem that I had … was being out in the public. It was hard to even explore it. I wasn’t even left that opportunity. When I talk to some of my gay women friends now who might just be a little bit older than me, they would come in from [Long] Island or New Jersey, and they would put on their black Levis and black jackets and run to the bars. I wasn’t quite able to do that.”Though Gore did not come out as gay until after the heyday of her fame had passed, she says she never concealed it from the people who were close to her: “I just tried to live as normally as humanly possible. But as truthfully as humanly possible.”“SourceLesley Gore - "You Don’t Own Me”You don’t own me, I’m not just one of your many toysYou don’t own me, don’t say I can’t go with other boysAnd don’t tell me what to doAnd don’t tell me what to sayAnd please, when I go out with youDon’t put me on display, ‘causeYou don’t own me, don’t try to change me in any wayYou don’t own me, don’t tie me down 'cause i’d never stayOh, I don’t tell you what to sayI don’t tell you what to doSo just let me be myselfThat’s all I ask of youI’m young and I love to be youngI’m free and I love to be freeTo live my life the way I wantTo say and do whatever I pleaseA-a-a-nd don’t tell me what to doOh-h-h-h don’t tell me what to saySo just let me be myselfThat’s all i ask of youI’m young and I love to be youngI’m free and I love to be freeTo live my life the way I want" -- source link

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