You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

I. Her father Leo Gore was a wealthy manufacturer of children's clothes and swimwear. Her record producer Quincy Jones responsible for all her hits from 1963 to 1965 would later become one of the most famous producers in American music.

She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit "It's My Party" which Lesley Gore recorded at the age of 16. Lesley Gore (born May 2 1946) is an American singer.