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Sep 2021
24m 7s

Melissa Etheridge: Comes To Our Window

Jeffrey Masters
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The iconic singer talks about how not being publicly out affected her songwriting, never hiding her sexuality from those in the music industry, and what it was like to go back and listen to her 30-year-old demos. (Melissa Etheridge's new album One Way Out is available now.) LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partne ... Show More
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