Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado says
she's proud to live in a country that supports gay marriage.
The 32-year-old entertainer and mother
of 7-year-old daughter Nevis says there is nothing wrong with gay
couples marrying.
“I'm proud to live in Canada, a
country that supports gay marriage, because I can speak openly about
it to my child,” Furtado
says in an interview with Brandon Voss published in South Florida gay
monthly She magazine. “Children shouldn't be raised in
a bubble. There's nothing wrong with it, so why wouldn't I treat it
as normal?”
The I'm Like a Bird singer also
speaks out on the recent rash of gay teens bullied to death.
“Nothing makes me more brokenhearted
than seeing people who feel they can't be themselves. It's such a
crime. God, it's so hard and horrible to be a teenager, and the
virtual way young people communicate nowadays makes them feel even
more disconnected. My advice [to troubled gay teens] is to reach out
and find somebody you can relate to, because human interaction can
heal those wounds.”