Miami’s South Florida Blade reports that Mexican pop diva and soap star Lucía Mendez is embracing her status as a gay icon in a recent kick-off of her tour of gay clubs in the U.S.:

A seasoned pro, Mendes (sic) takes her mark at the press conference before the Spanish language television news cameras. She poses and preens behind severe fashion sunglasses, like a red-carpet fashion plate.

Then she began talking.

“I love the gay community,” she says, as the photographers call her name. “The gay audiences have kept Cher and Madonna alive. They buy albums, they listen to my music, and they love me through good times and through bad.”

The Blade reports that Méndez’s statements should put to rest the fears of many a gay fan who believed Lucía to be anti-gay marriage because of this interview:

Yep, that was Lucía basically saying that as a woman of “The Word” (no, not The L Word, the Bible) she is reluctant to comment on the marriage issue. Did you see her face change when they told her gay marriage is now legal in California? Ha-ha.

But now Méndez appears to have changed her stance. With dollar signs in her eyes, she appeared before Spanish language press stating, according to the Blade, “I support [gay marriage]…Equal rights for all is peace.”

How convenient!

Via / South Florida Blade