Christina Aguilera Thanks LGBTQ Friends for Support (and Helping Improve Her Sex Skills) While Accepting GLAAD Award

Christina Aguileratook the stage at the 34th AnnualGLAAD Media Awardson Thursday to both receive and give love.

She continued, “I grew up in this community as most of my lifelong best friends identify as LGBTQ. So much of who I am and what I do is because of each of you, and our shared experience of having to fight for equality and freedom in some capacity.”

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The star’s list of LGBTQ influences ended on a particularly personal note. She detailed picking up some specific, rather explicit, bedroom skills from her non-straight friends, before saying, “I mean, I’m just saying, we know how to get dirty, OK!”

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The five-time Grammy winner said the pain of violence issomething she knows all too well. “When you’ve been a victim of violence, abuse or trauma, it’s incredibly hard and scary to find your voice and fight back,” she said. “Having grown up in a home with domestic violence, it was seeing my mom in a powerless position that first ignited the fire in me to speak up for all of the people whose voices don’t get heard. And it is not easy.”

She added, “That takes guts. We all need to raise our voices if we want to live in a world that’s free of discrimination, hate and violence.”

source: people.com