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Selena to go ahead with Carolina concert to ‘defeat discrimination’


After dilly-dallying for a while, singer-actor Selena Gomez has decided to go ahead with her North Carolina concert in the US. Read: Selena Gomez got trapped in elevator in Paris and tweeted it allRead: Finally! Selena Gomez quashes Orlando Bloom link-up rumours“I went back and forth on whether I should cancel my concert in North Carolina and ultimately I think what is right for me is to move forward with my show and donate a portion of the proceeds to Equality North Carolina and their effort to defeat this act of discrimination.” “I am very fortunate to have grown up in a home where I learned from an early age that everyone should be treated equally,” she said. The legislation, also known as HB2 or the ‘bathroom bill’, was signed into law by politicians earlier this year (2016), forcing all transgender people to use gender-specific public restrooms.


Source: Hindustan Times June 05, 2016 09:00 UTC



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