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She protests when she hears that she is thought of as a Don Juan for women. "I am? God, that's so untrue! I am such a loser. I can't get a date to save my life," she says, draping her leg over the back of the couch, smiling wryly. "It's so tragic." Aw. "It's true!" When was the last date you went on? "Last night." She grins, caught in her tracks. 

-k.d. in Out, 1996

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"She's been the first major woman pop star who's out and proud and fine about it. . . . The thing about k.d. is that she's Ms. Gender Bender. She's not afraid; that's always been part of her appeal. She's absolutely herself, and when you see her onstage you see a living example of how, when you step out of the closet, you become more whole and are able to be more powerful."

-Torie Osborn, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Vanity Fair, August 1993

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Androgyny to me is making your sexuality available, through your art, to everyone. Like Elvis, like Mick Jagger, like Annie Lennox or Marlene Dietrich -- using both the power of male and female. 

I have been called "sir" so many times in my life and will always be.

-k.d. lang

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Another stunning Herb Ritts photo, this one for a GAP ad. 

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"I am a crooner. Stylistically, a vocalist who should have been living in 1950 singing jazz. I don't know why I'm in 1992. I don't know why!"

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k.d. works the stage during her Ingenue tour.

Image from kennedyflair photo archive. 

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Looking cute and geeky circa '89. 

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Songbird and bird. 

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k.d. in another smokey-eyed photo for Out while promoting Drag

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k.d. and Sandra Bernhard at a party circa 1990.

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"I think the ultimate lover will be like being alone. It will be so comfortable, I won't have a problem sleeping or feel I have to entertain them or worry about them understanding me. I think I'll know her when I see her. I hope. My biggest insecurity is my body, being big, I have a big complex."

But she has a big, big love, right?

"I do have a big love."

k.d. in Rolling Stone, August 1993

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This image was also on the cover of the Lifted by Love single. Here's a version without the CD text. 

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Another angle from the this amazing Herb Ritts photoshoot (compare to the Emma image with eyes open). This one was published in Moda, and provided by the very generous confusedtofu.

Of Ritts, Cindy Crawford has said that he photographed you the way you want to look when you wake up in the morning. All of the images from this shoot definitely have that fresh, immediate, and incredibly personal feel. 

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k.d. with her 1993 American Music Award, and a bold, signature suit. 

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A stylized shot of k.d. from Performing Songwriter.