#pub:out

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"There's something very beautiful about trusting someone shaving you," lang says. "Like those old images of an old Italian man with a cold blade against your neck -- it's sexy. So I said to Herb Ritts in passing, 'You know, I'd really like to sit in a barber chair with a girl shaving me.'  A few days later, Herb phones me back and says, 'Cindy's going to do it.' And I was like 'Doioioing!' Then all of a sudden Cindy comes in and she's wearing a teddy and little pump bootlets. And I'm in a suit, and I'm thinking, This isn't exactly what I had in mind."

k.d. looking back on this famous 1993 photoshoot in OUT magazine in 1996. 

"When he called me to do the k.d. lang thing, he called the night before saying, 'Hey, I’m do­ing this shoot with k.d. lang. I have an idea. Will you come and do this?' I trusted him enough to not even re­ally ask. I was like, 'Yeah, sure, what­ev­er you want.' I did under­stand I was be­ing used as a prop. Those pic­tures seem so hy­per-re­al, they were in your face. When I look at them now what I see is the lines and the sense of humor."

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"I really find the answers to any question in nature. By watching its synchronicity, its struggles. . . . Nature kills because it has to, but hate is a very strange human commodity." 

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By coming out publicly, lang delivered a welcome reprieve for gay fans at her Ingenue concerts, a "designated neutral zone," where couples, no matter what their orientation, could hold hands.

"People know there's going to be gays and lesbians in my audience. So if you have a problem with that, don't come to my show."

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She remains firm that her coming out was ultimately a matter of personal position, not public responsibility, and that she's stronger for it....

"It was the most incredible feeling and is the most incredible feeling. And all the downfalls of being a role model and having expectations--that's peripheral. It's like singing: I don't do it for the audience. I don't do it for the money. I do it because I have to do it. If you ask me what it's like for me to be a lesbian, I'm going to tell you. I don't need to hide it anymore. It's a great emancipation. It's total freedom." 

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LMAO, ok.