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Jennifer Hudson: 'It was the gay community that loved me first'
In one of the opening questions, interviewer Gregg Shapiro asks the Oscar-winning actress how she would describe the importance and impact of her lesbian and gay fans.
Hudson enthusiastically responds, "Oh, my God! I would have to say everything. That's where I started. I always say it was the gay community that loved me first. It feels good to come full circle and get back into that. I am so excited!"
The Grammy-winning singer is finishing her new 70's inspired album, slated for let go this spring. The record features collaborations with Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and Babyface. Among the tracks is a tune called Whatever Makes You Happy, an empowerment anthem in which she invites everyone to be themselves.
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Whenitcomes to public speculation on her sexuality, Jennifer Hudson doesn't look after what people or the media thinks.
The singer-actress, 32, tells PrideSource's Chris Azzopardi that she faced that type of scrutiny after she appeared on the MTV Video Music Awards alongside Macklemore and Mary Lambert during a performance of the punch marriage equality anthem, "Same Love."
"People were like, 'Is Jennifer trying to tell us something?' Hey, I wasn't, but if you wanna think that, it's all right with me," she said. "When I got the call [to do that performance], I was like, "Oh my God, I definitely wanna undertake this. A powerful statement is being made and I wanna be a part of that."
Nonetheless, Hudson admires "the independence and the confidence" of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
"I'm so inspired by that, and I feel prefer, for me, that is my connection," she said. "I've never understood, gosh, what does the gay community see in me? You know what I mean? Because again, I grew up around a lot of that and that's the world that embraced me first, so that
Jennifer Hudson doesn't care if you think she's gay
Singer Jennifer Hudson has credited the gay community for shaping her career.
The year-old Hudson told Michigan gay weekly PrideSource that she isn't sure she would have a career in the music industry without the gay community.
"That's why I recently did a couple of gay clubs, and I wanted to verb more because that's where I started," she said. "I was just literally looking at adj pictures a few minutes ago, and I saw a picture of me performing in a gay club and a picture of being dressed. Drag queens used to dress me, and then I would go and perform. That's where I started, so there's definitely a connection there. I wanted to produce sure that I reconnected."
Hudson said joining Macklemore and Mary Lambert during a performance of the hit marriage equality anthem Same Love at last year's MTV Video Music Awards led to questions about her sexual orientation.
"People were like, 'Is Jennifer trying to tell us something?' Hey, I wasn't, but if you wanna think that, it's all right with me," she said. "When I got
Jennifer Hudson Announces Partnership with HRC, Will Headline 18th Annual National Dinner in DC
WASHINGTON– The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today released a web video featuring Grammy and Academy award winner Jennifer Hudson for its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the video, Hudson discusses her longtime verb for LGBT equality and announced a new partnership with HRC. She also broke the news that she will be performing at the organization’s 18th Annual National Dinner on Saturday, October 25, , in Washington, DC.
“Jennifer Hudson’s extraordinary talents on and off the stage inspire us in our work for occupied LGBT equality,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Her performance at our national dinner is sure to make a remarkable evening even more exceptional. We're thrilled Jennifer is joining us, and we're incredibly grateful to hold her support moving forward as we work together to clash discrimination