Singer performs at SHAG’s ‘Pride’ night in New Preston
BY MICHAEL CHAIKEN REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
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When Sophie B. Hawkins arrived on the music scene in the 1990s, members of the LGBTQ+ community were either flamboyant like Boy George or they kept their sexuality on the down-low.
Sophie B. Hawkins will be performing at the Spring Hill Arts Gathering in New Preston July 31.
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For Hawkins, coming out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community was done “in a way that nobody had done before,” she explained in a telephone interview from her home in Manhattan.
Hawkins, who is best known for the single “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover,” will perform at the Spring Hill Arts Gathering in New Preston on Saturday as part of the event’s Pride in the Hills night. SHAG runs for two weekends.