Pop star Katy Perry talks about her religious upbringing and - in reference to her hit song I Kissed a Girl - how she did ‘did more than that’. In an emotional speech while accepting the National Equality Award at the 2017 Human Rights Commission Gala, Perry described how she ‘prayed the gay away’ as an adolescent, before she found her tribe of ‘the most free, strong, kind and inclusive people I have ever met’.