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Melissa Etheridge's Health Is Better Than Ever
Originally posted 09/30/2009 06:10PM
Melissa Etheridge had one request to fans before her recent concert. "No stage rushing!" she said.
She wasn't being a diva – just playing it safe. After all, she was singing on a Delta airplane 10,000 feet in the air. Her performance – to help raise money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation – was part of Hard Rock's PINKTOBER initiative and a cause dear to the singer. She's now cancer free after being diagnosed with breast cancer in October of 2004.
"My health is better now than it's ever been," Etheridge, 48, told PEOPLE mid-flight. "Cancer woke me up. It was a symptom of a body that needed attention."
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Melissa Etheridge Backs Cancer Foundation
Originally posted 06/15/2009 03:30PM
It's music to one cancer foundation's ears: Melissa Etheridge has signed on to the board of directors of the Noreen Fraser Foundation, which raises funds for developing new prevention methods and non-toxic therapies to treat women's cancers.
It's a partnership that Etheridge, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, calls "a dream come true."
"I have been searching for an organization to lend my name and insight with the same beliefs, outlook and treatment practices to combat women's cancers as I do," Etheridge said in a statement. "I look forward to helping NFF achieve their goals."
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Melissa Etheridge to California: 'You Can Forget My Taxes'
Originally posted 11/06/2008 05:05PM
No same-sex marriage, no more tax dollars from Melissa Etheridge.
That's the defiant stand taken by the 44-year-old singer in a new blog post on The Daily Beast following the passage of California's Proposition 8.
Etheridge declares that if she's not "allowed the same right [to marry] under the state constitution as any other citizen. ... I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes, because I am not a full citizen."
"Okay," she continues. "There is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California."
Etheridge opposed the ballot measure along with Brad Pitt, Mary J. Blige, Ellen DeGeneres, and Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Melissa Etheridge's Son on Same-Sex Marriage Ban: 'Lame'
Originally posted 10/30/2008 12:25PM
Melissa Etheridge has a message about California's Proposition 8, which would ban same sex marriage: It's lame!
But those aren't her words – that's how the singer's 9-year-old son, Beckett, described it.
"He, being 9 years old and very proud of his reading skills, read 'Changes California Constitution to eliminate right of same sex couples to marry," wrote Etheridge in her blog on The Daily Beast. "He looked at me, very matter-of-factly and said, 'Wow, that's lame.' "
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Mary J. Blige, Melissa Etheridge Help Fight Prop 8
Originally posted 10/23/2008 10:00AM
While uncharacteristically mum about its choice for president, Hollywood's been highly vocal about another political issue – giving a loud "No" to Proposition 8.
And if those sentiments weren't clear enough, the concert by Melissa Etheridge and Mary J. Blige Tuesday night to fight Prop 8 raised $3.9 million.
The $1,000-a-head event was intended to help close the gap between the No on Prop 8 supporters, who have raised about $25 million, and the Yes on Prop 8 boosters, who have $27 million in their coffers, reports Variety.
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Melissa Etheridge Plans to Tie the Knot Again
Originally posted 10/01/2008 05:00PM
Melissa Etheridge plans to legally tie the knot with her longtime partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels.
But the couple, whose twins turn 2 this month, are still in pre-planning stages. "We're trying to find the right time now actually to go down and do it – [that] is where we're at," Etheridge said Wednesday, according to Extra.
When the pair first exchanged vows five years ago in Malibu, same-sex marriages weren't legally recognized in California. (Michaels, however, has changed her last name to Etheridge.) Earlier this year, California's Supreme Court ruled to allow gay marriage under the state's constitution.
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Melissa Etheridge on Obama: 'I Feel a Huge Change Coming'
Originally posted 08/30/2008 05:00PM
Just two days after performing a medley of songs at the Democratic National Convention, Melissa Etheridge still had politics on her mind during a concert in Los Angeles Friday night.
"When I was there [at the DNC], I felt a great sense of hope," she told the crowd at the Greek Theatre. "I felt a great sense of, finally, us coming together because it was people of all kinds there ... I feel a huge change coming. I feel it."
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Melissa Etheridge Calls Twins a 'Whole Different Ball of Wax'
Originally posted 09/26/2007 09:05AM
Melissa Etheridge had already been raising two children, so she was no novice parent when her twins were born last October.
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Twins for Melissa Etheridge & Partner
Originally posted 10/20/2006 04:20PM
Melissa Etheridge and her partner Tammy are the new parents of a son and a daughter, PEOPLE has learned.
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Twins for Melissa Etheridge, Partner
Originally posted 04/18/2006 07:00AM
Melissa Etheridge and partner Tammy Lynn Michaels are sharing some major family news with their fans.
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