Guardian‘Gay ins like to drs up’: Bob Mackie on Cher, Ta Turner and drsg Elton JohnBy Hannah MarrttAugt 20, 2018 You uld de out for a lifetime on Bob Mackie’s stori. After 60 years of signg sequ-encsted stage stum for Cher, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross, to name a few, the 79-year-old has anecdot to
Contents:
- ‘GAY INS LIKE TO DRS UP’: BOB MACKIE ON CHER, TA TURNER AND DRSG ELTON JOHN AS DONALD DUCK
- ‘GAY INS LIKE TO DRS UP’: BOB MACKIE ON CHER, TA TURNER, BETTE MIDLER, AND DRSG ELTON JOHN
‘GAY INS LIKE TO DRS UP’: BOB MACKIE ON CHER, TA TURNER AND DRSG ELTON JOHN AS DONALD DUCK
Rather than lyg low to grieve, he went straight back to work, wh Midler, on the TV movie Gypsy, a project that, he has said, saved, of urse, is yet another gay in: Mackie’s life seems to be extribly lked wh women wh that ephet. Gay culture has changed a lot, he says.
Photograph: Kobal/Rex/ShutterstockHas Mackie created gay ins – by swathg them sequs – or have existg gay ins approached him bee they like his athetic? “Certaly, most gay ins like to drs up. Addams is an ductee to the Chigo Gay and Lbian Hall of Fame.
What Osr Wil is also known for is for twice beg prosecuted for homosexualy and gross cency 1895.
‘GAY INS LIKE TO DRS UP’: BOB MACKIE ON CHER, TA TURNER, BETTE MIDLER, AND DRSG ELTON JOHN
Wil, along wh more than 50,000 other gay men, was posthumoly pardoned as part of the 2017 Alan Turg Law. Anrson Cooper is one of the most regnizable gay male ins the world right now.
Upon g out as gay 2012 Cooper was lled by The New York Tim “the most proment openly gay journalist on Amerin televisn.” Sce that time, he won several GLAAD awards addn to a Peabody Award, an Edward R. On g out Cooper said “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud.” He has stated over the years that he first realized he was gay his teen years, and first me to tly embrace that part of him shortly after llege.
He has served as Entertament Media Director for GLAAD (Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn). As an activist for LGBT rights, she has been an outspoken cric of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy the US ary which prohibs gay and lbian servicepeople om beg open. She has also spoken out agast anti-gay bullyg Amerin schools.