How Hayley Kiyoko became pop's 'lesbian Jesus'

The LA singer-songwriter has gone from Disney Channel starlet to maker of sublime queer electropop. She explains how Katy Perry’s iffy-in-hindsight I Kissed A Girl helped start her journey It is almost 10 years since Katy Perry first sang, “I kissed a girl just to try it,” with the immediate caveat: “I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it.” Since then the song has been reassessed as evidence of a culture that fetishised queerness and feared it. Even Perry has off...

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