Demi Lovato opens up about why they did not come out as nonbinary sooner
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Demi Lovato has recently opened up about why they didn't come out as nonbinary sooner. Speaking to Jane Fonda for her "Fire Drill Friday" podcast, Lovato said the way they grew up had an impact on their gender expression.
Lovato said if they had continued to "listen to the patriarchy" their pronouns would have never changed and they probably would have been "married to a man with kids, doing the thing that I was raised to believe I should do." "Growing up in Dallas, Texas, in the South, being Christian, there was a lot of norms that were already pushed on to me when it came to sexuality and gender," Lovato said. "And I'm a very fluid person, I'm a very free spirited, open person."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.