That time Aretha Franklin suspected Annie Lennox was "totally gay" because of her short hair & vegan lifestyle
Briefly

"Aretha had stayed up half the night making fried chicken, and Annie was a vegan, so that was a bit awkward," Stewart recalled. "Aretha was very wary of Annie with her cropped hair."
As it turns out, Lennox wasn't and still isn't gay (though she is a huge LGBTQ+ ally) and has, in fact, been married three times to three different men. And the song wasn't a gay anthem either. It was a feminist anthem that has since gone on to be covered by several other artists...
Read at Queerty
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