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Katy Perry revealed on Saturday night during her acceptance speech for the National Equality Award at the Human Rights Campaign Gala that she did a lot more than just kiss a girl in her younger days.
"I speak my truths and I paint my fantasies into these little bite size pope songs," she told the crowd. "For instance, 'I kissed a girl and I liked it.' Truth be told, I did more than that."
She detailed her experience with gospel-singing conversion groups as a teenager and said: "How was I going to reconcile that with a gospel singing girl raised in youth groups that were pro-conversion camps? What I did know was I was curious and even then I knew sexuality wasn't as black and white as this dress."
"Honestly," she said, "I haven't always gotten it right but in 2008 when that song came out I knew that I started a conversation and a lot of the world seemed curious enough to sing along, too."
Perry revealed that she spent a lot of time as an adolescent trying to "pray the gay away" in "Jesus camps," but things changed for her when she entered the world of mainstream pop music.
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View Story"I found my gift and my gift introduced me to people outside my bubble and my bubble started to burst," Perry told the crowd. "These people were nothing like I had been taught to fear. They were the most free, strong, kind and inclusive people I have ever met."
