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"I think it's important for people to come out because it's broadening the acceptability walls. But I always thought I was out. I presented myself as myself. I didn't try to dispel lesbian rumours. I sang songs like Bopalena which was about my girlfriend."
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Looking cute and geeky circa '89.
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I was raised with no gender barriers and a really healthy dose of self-confidence. My father treated me like a tomboy. I did very "boy" things with him. He bought me a motorcycle when I was nine; I've been riding cycles for 22 years. I was a marksman; I used to shoot guns with him--revolvers, shotguns. But we shot targets; I never killed animals....I remember him getting me an electric guitar for Christmas when I was in grade six.
k.d.'s dad disappeared completely from her family's life when she was 12 and she didn't see or hear from him till she ran into him on the street 8 years later.
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If the cover photo for Absolute Torch and Twang was real-life, contemporary 'farm boy' k.d., then the inside album art was her fantasy, old-school country western cowboy counterpart.
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k.d. in the movie Salmonberries.
"She's one of those personalities who are totally incomparable . . . a mixture of innocence and slyness. Young, and at the same time wise and old. Both a woman and a man. Tough and yet very delicate and fragile."
-Salmonberries director Percy Adlon on k.d.
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One of the best album covers of all time: Drag.
