![]() ![]() It was well after midnight when she ran up onto the stage. “I suggested Nip wear a look from Dolce & Gabbana: a black tank and silvery bejeweled capri pants. Hers was to be an end-of-the-night surprise performance, and the crowd was jumping. It was a perfect warm, hazy June night, and the pier was packed with more than seven thousand. “With her remixes burning up radio and the clubs, the timing couldn’t have been better, nor could the atmosphere. But finally, in the summer of 1999, she showed up at the thirteenth annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Dance on a West Side pier. In her memoir and tribute A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston, Whitney’s best friend and lover Robyn Crawford described Whitney’s visit to pride as a rare night of fun for the hard-working legend: “Over the years, we had received requests for Whit to perform during New York City Pride but had never accepted due to conflicting tours, recording, movies, or appearance commitments. Whitney understood the importance of gay clubs.
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