Gender Benders Episode 2 - KD Lang

K.D. Lang is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known for Ingénue, the 1992 album that earned her a number one single and a Grammy Award for best pop vocal. An androgynous lesbian rising to iconic success was not the norm in the 1980s, and her bold integrity is inseparable from her lasting legacy as an artist and musician.

She never compromised comfort in her butch presentation, claiming it would be detrimental to her art, and unfair to her audience. With regard to modern pop-stars she told the BBC: "I don't know who they are necessarily, but when I listen to the radio, I hear a guy singing about a guy or whatever. It's all over the map. "It's almost the eradication of gender categorisation, which is beautiful, which is what some of us always wanted."