137: Cyndi Lauper | Part 2
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest, Cyndi Lauper really is one in a million. In 2008 she found the LGBTQ+ homeless charity, True Colours United, with a mission statement to ‘implement innovative solutions to LGBTQ youth homelessness’. She tells Chris and Alan about the charity, being an iconic queer ally and calling out Donald Trump’s homophobia on The Apprentice.
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| 0:00.0 | Cindy Lauper, the second act, this is part two of our lovely chat with Cindy Lauper. |
| 0:08.0 | If you haven't heard part one yet, go back to your feed, click on part one, press play, |
| 0:11.5 | then come back here, because this is part two. |
| 0:16.1 | Cindy, would you mind telling the story of Gregory and... |
| 0:19.9 | Gregory Natal. |
| 0:20.9 | Yes. |
| 0:21.9 | Well, he was a kid, I guess in Spanish Harlem. |
| 0:27.3 | He was a victim of abuse in the home. |
| 0:32.7 | He had a stepfather that continually raped him from the time he was eight to the time |
| 0:37.8 | he was twelve, and at twelve his mother walked in on them, him being raped, and threw the |
| 0:44.6 | kid out. |
| 0:45.6 | Oh, what? |
| 0:46.6 | Not the husband, the kid. |
| 0:49.9 | So, amidst all of this in me that pressed every child abuse, every button, this kid was |
| 1:02.3 | out on the street at twelve. |
| 1:04.6 | I knew him when he was twenty-three, twenty-four. |
| 1:07.9 | I think he died at twenty-four from AIDS. |
| 1:11.2 | How did you meet him? |
| 1:12.6 | He was my neighbor. |
| 1:13.6 | He lived downstairs from me when I was in Blue Angel, giving call. |
| 1:18.6 | And I had a dream about them before I met them. |
| 1:22.1 | I dreamed that they were... |
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