Cyndi Lauper at The White House! (Tweets)

[FelineOverlord]

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[underpants]

1. Excellent

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I hope

This sets the MAGATs’ hair on fire!!!

[Mysterian]

3. I've always had a good opinion of Ms. Lauper

She always impressed me as a nice person.

[FelineOverlord]

4. 😊

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This makes me smile

[mcar]

6. Beautiful!

I taught water aerobics for many years to a group of mostly women, most older than me (I'm 64 now). My go-to playlist included "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." The women loved it.

[iluvtennis]

14. Played it for my Gen Z girls when they were young - they love it

and still do. Also, True Colors.

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

7. She's still got it!

She reminds me of my college days and MTV. It’s nice to see celebrities I liked from my past turn out to be people I respect in my present.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. I love Cyndi Lauper.

From the looks of that pic so does everyone else.

I saw her in concert on TV. It's hard to believe she still has that in her.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. My Wife & I Saw Her Twice

Both times she sang terrifically, and both times the band was a bunch of killers.
In fact, on the True Colors tour, her guitar player & musical director was Rick Derringer. To open She Bop, they did 8 measures of Frankenstein. What a great combo!
She's a pro & very entertaining.

[samplegirl]

16. She's so talented

I always said Madonna stole her limelight!
What’s not to love about her or her activism?

[Solly Mack]

9. I know Ms. Lauper means absolutely nothing unkind about the word "allowed"

but the word still grates on me.

People love who they love and being "allowed" to do so has nothing to do with it.

We, the hypocritic scolds of society, the self-proclaimed "moral" - though factually immoral - police, allow you to feel love.

We, the paternalistic keepers of what is and isn't acceptable, allow you to feel an emotion.

Allowed - to feel an emotion. Allowed - to express an emotion.

Being able to love the person you love shouldn't require an act of Congress.

That's just galling.

People, able to be people, same as every other person, who are doing nothing wrong, and just want the exact same rights as everyone else - having to garner favor and acceptance for even the tiniest morsel.

Because bigoted assholes deemed themselves the authority on all things human.

I'm sorry. I'm glad the RFMA was signed. I simply object to the concept of having to seek approval for just being who you are and loving who you love.

Straight people didn't have to plead their case to be allowed to feel love.

Well, unless one person of the couple was black but then that goes right back to being "allowed" to love.

[NullTuples]

10. I understand. OTOH, I took it as a direct critique of Republicans and other conservative Christians

It was subtle but by choosing "allowed" she makes the listener take a step back and ask the question of why it wouldn't be.

That one word choice calls out haters for trying to not allow some people in America to have the same equality - the same basic rights and privileges - as everyone else.

[Solly Mack]

11. I hope the listeners do ask the question. Thank you.

[NullTuples]

12. Her True Colors United foundation has saved & changed so many young homeless LGBTQ+ kids' lives.

40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ. Most by far were kicked out of their parents homes, typically due to religious or political beliefs, as young as 13 years old.

One of many of my favorite quotes from her, this one from 2008:

(from The Times of London on Aug. 2, 2008)

“My sister was gay, my best friends were gay, so I figured I had to be gay,” she said. “So I did everything they did. I tried kissing girls. But it didn't feel right for me and eventually I was forced to come out as a heterosexual.”

Lauper also launched a broadside against George W. Bush.

“When I hear people like George Bush talk about the gay community being anti-American it makes my blood boil,” she said. “The guy who saved the White House, one of the heroes who crashed that plane on 9/11, was gay – the rugby player Mark Bingham, who died on United 93. And does Bush ever mention that? … That gay guy saved his lousy ass.”


Link to True Colors United: https://truecolorsunited.org/about/

[orangecrush]

15. KICK

Love her!

[dchill]

17. A REAL American Idol!