“I don’t know what I am. I love people.”
Despite continued setbacks in her legal battle against producer and alleged abuser Dr. Luke, Kesha is keeping her head up — and reminding everyone that you don’t have to label who you are to celebrate Pride.
On Thursday, the singer-songwriter posted an artfully disheveled selfie on Instagram along with a message of love and support for LGBTQ+ people everywhere.
“Happy Pride! In case I haven’t been straight forward enough (LOL) I just wanted to take a sec to tell everyone that you are not only enough, just as you are, but the world is so fucking lucky to have you,” Kesha wrote, before reminding everyone she’s part of the queer community too.
This might seem like a bombshell announcement, but Kesha has been open about her queerness for about a decade now, telling Seventeen in a 2013 interview she doesn’t “love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.” In a 2019 interview with Attitude, Kesha seemingly clarified that she is bisexual, but as her Instagram post demonstrates, she’s just as unconcerned about labeling her attraction as she was about coming out at all.
“It has never occurred to me to care about a specific gender, or how someone is identifying, to make me wonder about whether or not I’m attracted to them,” she explained to Attitude.
Amid the growing panic over anti-LGBTQ+ violence and legislation in the U.S., questions and anxieties over who belongs at Pride have grown stronger. But it’s essential to remember that nobody needs to be absolutely certain about themselves, or affix a specific label to their identity, to belong at Pride or in their LGBTQ+ community. To put it in Kesha’s terms, “We R Who We R.”
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