Cyndi Lauper is comparing Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ legislation to persecution by Nazis under Adolf Hitler in 1930-40s Germany.
“I believe you don’t stop the fight,” the “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” singer and longtime LGBTQ activist said in a recent interview when asked to weigh in on a wave of proposed bills making their way across the country, including legislation that would restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender young people.
“Equality for everybody, or nobody’s really equal,” Lauper told ITK.
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“This is how Hitler started,” she continued, “just weeding everybody out.”
In Nazi Germany, LGBTQ people were considered enemies of the state and were prosecuted, ending up imprisoned or executed in concentration camps.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea what they’re doing but, you know, you just have to keep fighting for civil rights,” Lauper, 69, said.
