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Chart-topping Canadian singer Nelly Furtado admits she’s attracted to women and believes all people are bisexual.
“I’m reading a book about Chinese medicine, which claims that people are inherently bisexual to balance their energies. And, in a way, that makes so much sense,” Furtado told freelance writer Arjan Timmermans.
“As humans we have both male and female energies. I believe in Kurt Cobain’s statement that, in the end, everyone is gay. Everybody should have the freedom to experiment. I believe sexual experimentation is part of human history.”
Asked if she is ever attracted to women, the “Promiscuous” singer replied: “Absolutely. Women are beautiful and sexy.”
Furtado admitted she often hangs out with her gay friends. “I know that when I travel, I always have to go to gay clubs.”
The mother of one, who was born in Victoria but later settled in Toronto, revealed she’d love to participate in Toronto’s annual Pride parade.
“I’ve always wanted to. My dream is to have my own float,” she said. “I’d have remixes of my songs. We’d all be drinking and dancing, just having a good time. We’d have lounge chairs and a little kiddy pool and we could all dance around and throw champagne on each other.
“All the guys and girls on the float would be in bikinis.”
The interview with Furtado was published last month in U.S. gay magazine Genre and appears in the new issue of GUS, a European gay publication.
Furtado told Timmermans she hopes her gay fans won’t be put off by the hip-hop sounds on her new CD, Loose.
“I don’t think they will, because the same individuality is there,” she said.
But Furtado acknowledged there is rampant homophobia in the hip-hop community. “I think it’s changing. And there’s a lot of hip-hop out there that is very cool and not homophobic at all.
“I grew up in British Columbia, where the hip-hop community was very fun-loving and open. I think the negative vibe comes from the thug mentality and masculinity in some hip-hop. But, now the world has become so much more one and gay culture is becoming more mainstream.”