• Wendy and Lisa confirmed what a whole lot of us suspected- that they are lesbians and were secretly married for 20 whole years!
• Prince knew about them the whole time and “protected them” from the public.
• Wendy and Lisa have known each other since they were 2 years old and were crazy in love with each other by the age of 17.

In my humble opinion, people are people regardless of if they are gay, straight, bi, or try-sexual (as singer, Tevin Campbell once stated). The bottom line is, we’re still talking about music here and as long as Wendy was able to make her guitar moan and Lisa was able to make that keyboard sing, it’s all good. They made us feel something through their musicianship and for that, I tip my hat to them. I also give them props for being so open about their lives.

So ILOSM fam’ we want to know if you would have known back in the day that Wendy and Lisa were, in fact, a gay couple, would that have changed your perception of them? Or no?

See the details Wendy and Lisa gave about their relationship and why they kept it a secret while in Prince’s Revolution Band in this interview with Out Magazine, when they officially “came out” publicly:

Why did the two of you decide to keep working together after you left the Revolution?
Wendy: We were married and I was her biggest fan. Everything that she played broke my heart and still does and I wanna own it and covet it and make it mine.
Lisa: [Laughs at that] Yeah, we’re chained together. We’re shackled. No, I love Wendy. We’ve known each other our entire lives practically. Once she was finally hired into Prince’s band, it was like a dream for me. I had fallen in love with Wendy, my childhood friend, and suddenly we were looking at each other differently, but I had to leave on the road all the time. It was always just torture. Finally Prince met Wendy and there was some trouble with the other guitar player [Dez Dickerson], and providence moved in such a way that Wendy ended up on the road with us.

Was the image you projected in “Purple Rain” a function of who the two of you were together? Or did it come from Prince, or the director?
Wendy: I don’t think the director had anything to do with it. I think Prince saw us as the couple that we were and used that relationship to add more mystery to him. And I think Lisa and I were willing to go there because at that time we felt mysterious. We were young and it was the thing, so we went with it, not knowing what the result of that would mean or imply later in life. We didn’t think about it in those terms. We just thought, Wow, this is cool!

Wendy and Lisa say Prince didn’t necessarily want to hide their lesbian relationship, he just wanted to guide them, make it a part of the band’s persona and protect it:
Lisa: I’ll give you an example. We had a photo shoot for the “Purple Rain” poster. We were all in our different positions and he at one point walked over to me and Wendy and lifted my…