Singer Annie Lennox laments the need
for labels, saying she wishes for a world where sexual orientation
isn't relevant.
Lennox, who is currently promoting her
latest studio album, the two-disc Nostalgia,
discussed her status as a gay icon in an interview with UK gay glossy
Attitude.
“Well,
it's not something I set out to do,” Lennox
said. “I mean these labels that are put upon you, like icon,
gay icon, they're sort of forced upon you.”
“It's certainly
not offensive to me,” she continued. “I will take the
compliment. But at the same time, it's reductive, because I think
ultimately we all need to be liberated from these labels that say
whether we're gay or we're straight, or whatever.”
“I would like to
see a world – which is coming much more than it was 20 years ago –
where it really doesn't matter what your orientation is sexually.
That's the planet I live on. It makes no difference to me what a
person's sexual orientation is.”
She added: “There's
a funny evolution that will have to take place, from my perspective,
in the so called 'gay world' where you don't even need to say gay or
straight anymore, because it really doesn't matter.”