Cyndi Lauper Quotes
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
Lauper, Cyndi. "Statement on Marriage Equality in New York." True Colors United, 25 Jun. 2011.
Two days earlier, New York Voted to legalize gay marriage and Alesi became the first Republican to vote for gay marriage. New York was the first state to legalize gay marriage by an act of their legislature and not by the judiciary on Constitutional grounds. Generally, most of the Republican politicians were opposed to marriage equality as they had the religious right wing of the party for whom gay marriage was anathema.
At the time the vast majority of the Republication politicians were strongly opposed to gay rights and same sex marriage and the Republican Party Platform reflected this. But while not a majority then, a significant proportion of the Republican registered voters saw no inconsistency between Republican principles and gay rights just like Lampo. The radical right religious fundamentalists however then had a de facto veto on Republican national candidates and policies.
This was an incredibly accurate prediction as 2 years thereafter, it was not only the major civil rights issue of the time, but it became a major general political and legal issue regarding the rights of states. Within year, 16 states allowed same sex marriage.
Virginia never did recognize interracial marriage in its own. A Supreme Court ruling invalidated their law.
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and activist. Her career has spanned over 40 years. Her album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night"—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies and her second record True Colors (1986). This album included the number one single "True Colors" and "Change of Heart", which peaked at number three. In 1989, she had a hit with a cover of Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night".
