Earlier this month Demi Lovato acted as Grand Marshal of the LA Pride Parade (and she’s a headliner of this weekend’s NYC’s Pride event, Dance on the Pier). While at the Los Angeles event she also took the opportunity to shoot a video for her new song, Really Don’t Care, which has now been released.
However it’s not just a completely shameless attempts to cash in on pink pound, as Demi has a personal connection to the LGBT community. At Logo TV’s Trailblazers event, she revealed that her grandfather was gay and came out in the 1960s.
On stage the singer and actress said, “I’ve never spoken about this before, but my grandfather himself was a trailblazer. He was brave enough to come out in the 1960s, and I feel a lot of my spirit has come from him. He passed away a few years later and I only wish he could have been able to see all the progress that has been made.”
Trailblazers marked the first anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling against DOMA and honoured several people who have made a difference for LGBT people over the years.
Demi’s video for Really Don’t Care features plenty of floats, drag queens and general Pride glitz (as well as Cher Lloyd, who features in the song), but it does have a serious point to make too, highlighted by opening on footage of those who turned out to protest against everything gay.
Take a look at the video below.
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