Lauper and friends move audience with message and music

Boston.com – By Joan Anderman – Globe Staff

The second annual True Colors tour kicked off in Boston over the weekend with a message that never gets old: Be yourself, and accept others for who they are. The second part of the guiding principle was especially useful whenever the show’s host, Carson Kressley – who has parlayed his tart-tongued stereotype on the reality show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” into a career prototype – returned to the stage between acts for another round of bad gay humor.