In Conversatn: Gloria Estefan On Her Stggl Wh Her Gay Dghter - Pri Source

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• IN CONVERSATN: GLORIA ESTEFAN ON HER STGGL WH HER GAY DGHTER
• GLORIA GAYNOR -- I'M NOT HOMOPHOBIC ... JT REALLY RELIG
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• GLORIA GAY

IN CONVERSATN: GLORIA ESTEFAN ON HER STGGL WH HER GAY DGHTER

She adms took several paful years, but gay in and Lat pop trailblazer Gloria Estefan is now a “really good place” wh her 25-year-old dghter Ey, who is openly queer.

I’ve been tryg to look at this om the perspective of a fan, and I’ve been kd of dissectg the fact that you’ve been a gay in for s.

GLORIA GAYNOR -- I'M NOT HOMOPHOBIC ... JT REALLY RELIG

I wanted people to listen to her mic jt as mic, bee I know how this world works and when I said that to her, what she heard was, “Hi, ver up, ” and that’s why I had told her, “If you want to get on the (gay Pri) float, I’m there wh you. It’s really tertg bee today I saw one of my tweets – some woman sayg that I was a “homophobe” – and that is the furtht thg om the tth. To , was a non-issue that Ey was gay.

I was the grand marshal of the gay Pri para! So I’m thkg, like, “Absolutely she would tell me (she’s gay) if she were; why wouldn’t she? But hontly that word “acceptance” to me is rough bee I don’t have to “accept” that Ey is gay.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

When Ey first me out or there was talk of her beg queer, my first thought was, “Oh my god, to be the child of a gay in.

GLORIA GAY

” But after seeg this, pletely changed my perceptn of that bee I was fascated by what ’s like to be the queer dghter of a gay in and how even then ’s a stggle to e out. What do you thk says about society that you, Gloria Estefan, longtime gay in who did a vio for the It Gets Better mpaign, wasn’t the safe place her dghter need her to be, or that her dghter didn’t perceive her to be?

Jt as a mician – fet as a gay person – Ey didn’t even sg until she was 18, even though she is the most amazg sger. Gloria Gaynor.

I'm Not Homophobic. Gloria Gaynor requted no shirtls men be her le of sight durg her performance at a gay bar Thursday night... But not bee she's homophobic -- her people say the sger is jt eply relig.