What Madonna's Said About Gay Rights, Her Sexuality as TikTok Goes Viral
newsweek.comlong-awaited biopic.Madonna read a part of the screenplay out loud to her Instagram fans last year, detailing her awakening."I discovered masturbation when I was 19," the star read."This dancer girl brought it up to me.
She said, 'Do you have a boyfriend?' I looked at her like she was speaking Arabic. 'I don't blame you. Masturbation is so much more enjoyable,' she said.
The concept of masturbation had not even occurred to me."Madonna then told how the dancer gave her some tips for self love: "She described it to me and I went home and I tried it that night...
and I went, 'OK, now I get it. That's what people are supposed to feel during sex.' That girl that told me about masturbation, she was a lifesaver."It's the little things that you take for granted in life."Madonna has always been a leader on LGBTQ rights, beginning with advocating for the gay community at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic to fighting for marriage equality."No single ally has been a better friend or had a bigger impact on acceptance for the LGBTQ community than Madonna," said CNN anchor Anderson Cooper as he introduced Madonna at the 30th GLAAD awards in 2019 where she won the Advocate for Change Award.Accepting her award Madonna explained her passion for the LGBTQ community: "Fighting for all marginalized people is a duty and an honor I could not turn my back on nor will I ever."The AIDS epidemic, the plague that moved in like a black cloud in New York City, and in the blink of an eye," she snapped her fingers, "took out all of my friends.""I remember the pandemonium and the fear, and people trying all kinds of drugs that didn't work," she continued. "And doing my own drug runs to Mexico for my friends to buy experimental medicines that were.
