- You're the raddest looking human ever.
Like, we--
(audience cheers)
Like things I dream of in my head,
I'm like, I could try this,
you pull off all of them.
- I just don't want to feel like I look in the mirror
and I look conservative and straight.
I don't know, somebody like--
(laughs)
You know, like, you know,
sometimes I pass Brooks Brothers and I think to myself,
"well that ain't bad," and I'm like, "what do you mean,
that's bad."
- I love, here's the thing, I love Brooks Brothers.
- Yeah, me too. But, you know, like really being in
like a pinstripe suit with my real color hair,
which I haven't seen since I was nine.
- I was gonna say, I don't think you're ever going
to be able to fight rock and roll.
I think that's just gonna naturally exude from you.
That's what we love about you.
Have y'all ever met before?
- Yeah.
- We have.
- You know, on her show.
- On my show. But I agree with you.
As soon as I look too proper, I'm like uh-uh. You know?
- Like, you know, I don't know what older artists look like.
- Kinda like this.
(audience laughs)
- Nah, you look beautiful. You're not old.
In what age, time, realm do you think you are in?
- I'm gonna be Basic Betty, though, even at 70.
It's gonna like, when I grow up, I'm gonna,
I'm cool with it. That's who I am.
I'm like rollin' with this, Cindy.
(audience cheering)
- What I always think of is your song
"What Doesn't Kill You --
- You know that song?
(audience laughing)
- [Cindy] I do.
- I'm so cool right now.
- I used to like, whenever I was feeling really
kind of like, downtrodden, I would like sing along with it.
- I love that you even heard it.
- Are you kidding it was a huge hit.
- Oh my God, well thank you!
(audience cheers)
All right so tell us about your, its home for the
holidays right?
- We're coming to LA usually we're in New York,
but this year, its a special year.
We're coming to LA. LA.
- LA. I like how you say it.
(audience cheers)
- It's our big fundraiser this year, um well every year.
It's the main thing we do for the true colors united,
it's an organization that we did to help eradicate I guess,
youth homelessness.
And that ranges anywhere from 12 to 24, and what we
discovered is that there's 3.7 million kids on the
street in one year.
And up to 49% of them were LGBTQ, which is lesbian or gay.
And you start to realize that a lot of these kids
are getting thrown out of their homes as they come out
to their parents.
I'm a mom,
you never get the kid,
the kid that's who you want the kid to be,
the kid is who the kid is.
And as a mom,
(audience Cheering)
you don't wanna throw you kid out.
- It's great that you do that work and I think its so,
people think it's better, and it is, but it's not better
everywhere, and it's not better in every household.
- It's not better
- Well when better comes from the bar that's way down here
then you've still only made it here.
You've gotta have a long way to go.
- But guys, its not.
I mean we've been trying, but it's still up to 40%.
I just think that we can do stuff with education
and different programs, which we have been involved with.
We bring a lot of organizations together and outreach
programs together. This is the work we do.
We lobby, we've had people from like 50 cent, to Pink,
to Laverne Cox.
- I think what's most important to point out, I know you're
not gonna say this, but just the fact that you are
unique and you are an original, and a lot of the kids you
are speaking to are unique and original and they stand out
in their community.
The fact that you're leading it up means all the world.
(audience clapping)
like it's not somebody shouting from the rooftop
that doesn't get it. That's the key.
You took your platform though, and you did something.
That's a cool thing.
- You can't throw away or youth. Our youth is our future.
We're parents, we stand by the kids.
We have to, because honestly you won't have a future
if you don't listen to them.
(audience clapping)
come to the show December 10th.
- Okay so where is this concert happening?
- At the noveu theater on December 10th.
October 18th tickets go on sale, and that's
truecolorsunited.org and get all the information
get information about what we do, and together we can
actually change the situation.
And once we take care of that 40% we can move on to
the rest.
- The volunteer.