{"id":290640,"date":"2020-04-08T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1138822"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:33:13","slug":"friday-singer-rebecca-black-comes-out-as-queer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/friday-singer-rebecca-black-comes-out-as-queer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;Friday&#8221; Singer Rebecca Black Comes Out as Queer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020110\/rs_600x600-200210190950-rebecca-black-twitter-friday-02102020.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.256097560976\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"26.890243902439\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rebecca_black\">Rebecca Black<\/a><\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1121894\/rebecca-black-looks-back-on-friday-9-years-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opening up<\/a> about her sexuality and identifying as queer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YbNrPY-il0E&amp;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent interview<\/a> with <em>Dating Straight<\/em>&nbsp;podcast hosts&nbsp;<strong>Jack Dodge&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Amy Ordman<\/strong>, Black&nbsp;shared that she had recently gone through a breakup with a woman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was dating someone and I know they might watch this&#8230; but one of the reasons that we went through this breakup was because I was really needed alone time, not from them, but just in general,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But I&#8217;m doing okay&#8230; every day really is different.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of putting a label on her sexuality, Black said, &#8220;I made a conscious decision to not like &#8216;come out&#8217; but to just like, I don&#8217;t know, people started asking and I stopped responding. I&#8217;m still in the process it feels like.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When asked how she specifically identifies, Black answered:&nbsp;&#8220;Every day is different, it&#8217;s something that over the past few years I&#8217;ve obviously been having a lot of conversations with myself about&#8230; and with you guys, my friends and my family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;To me, the word &#8216;queer&#8217; feels really nice. I have dated a lot of different types of people, and I just don&#8217;t really know what the future holds. Some days, I feel a little more on the &#8216;gay&#8217; side than others,&#8221; she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.05985915493\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.894366197183\">\n<p>She also added that because she recently got out of a relationship with another one, she&#8217;s not necessarily looking to date anytime soon.&nbsp;&#8220;I don&#8217;t really want to date right now but even if I did, I have no choice,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Unless I wanted to&#8230; Skype date people.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Black also added that while she and her former partner called it quits, they&#8217;re still trying to be there for each and support one another. &#8220;It&#8217;s a weird time to go through a break up,&#8221; she added. &#8220;&#8216;Cause you&#8217;re not going out and meeting new people at all.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YbNrPY-il0E&amp;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1138822\/friday-singer-rebecca-black-comes-out-as-queer?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Black is opening up about her sexuality and identifying as queer.&nbsp; In a recent interview with Dating Straight&nbsp;podcast hosts&nbsp;Jack Dodge&nbsp;and&nbsp;Amy Ordman, Black&nbsp;shared that she had recently gone through a breakup with a woman. &#8220;I was dating someone and I know they might watch this&#8230; but one of the reasons that we went through this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 15:46:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}