{"id":2442597,"date":"2019-04-05T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=818462"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:45:27","slug":"cyndi-lauper-ciara-to-perform-at-ceremony-remembering-stonewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/cyndi-lauper-ciara-to-perform-at-ceremony-remembering-stonewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyndi Lauper, Ciara to Perform at Ceremony Remembering Stonewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cyndi-Lauper.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>NYC Pride announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cyndi-lauper\/\">Cyndi Lauper<\/a> will perform at the WorldPride Opening Ceremony event at Barclays Center on June 26, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. <span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am thrilled to be a part of the WorldPride Opening Ceremony,\u201d said Lauper in a statement. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to celebrate with my LGBTQIA+ friends and family from across the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lauper has been a long-time advocate for the LGBTQ community. In 2008, she founded the True Colors Fund, a nonprofit addressing the issues of homeless LGBTQ youth. She recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/pride\/7840964\/cyndi-lauper-lgbtq-activism-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to Billboard<\/a> about her experiences as an ally for the queer community. <span>\u201cI\u2019ve been involved because if it\u2019s your friends and family, how long are you supposed to stand by and watch their civil rights be stripped?\u201d she told Billboard. \u201cI decided to do what I always do. If you\u2019re Italian, you always do that. You stand up for your own. You don\u2019t keep your mouth shut; you stand up. You tell your story and you allow other people to tell their story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ciara\/\">Ciara<\/a> and singer-songwriter Todrick Hall will also be among the performers at the event. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/whoopi-goldberg\/\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> is set to be the host. <span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a longtime advocate of the LGBTQIA+ community and this year marks a pivotal moment within our storied history and fight for equality,\u201d said Goldberg. \u201cHosting a WorldPride event is an absolute honor and I am delighted be a part of the Opening Ceremony in June.\u201d<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Proceeds from the ticket sales of the event will be used to support New York-based LGBTQ organizations such as Ali Forney Center, Immigration Equality, and SAGE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cyndi-lauper-ciara-whoopi-goldberg-pride-stonewall-818462\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Pride announced that Cyndi Lauper will perform at the WorldPride Opening Ceremony event at Barclays Center on June 26, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. \u201cI am thrilled to be a part of the WorldPride Opening Ceremony,\u201d said Lauper in a statement. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to celebrate with my LGBTQIA+ friends [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 18:20:29","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}