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• STEFANO GABBANA: HOMOSEXUAL DOLCE AND GABBANA -FOUNR NOUNC E OF 'GAY' AS A LABEL
• BOYTT DOLCE AND GABBANA: GAYS CAN BE HYPOCRIL, PREJUDICED DUMBASS, TOOFAY VALUTHE FASHN SIGNERS NMN ‘SYNTHETIC’ CHILDREN BORN OF IVF, WHEN STEFANO GABBANA HIMSELF ONCE WANTED TO HAVE CHILDREN BY . HOW DO HE EXPLA THAT?TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 15, 2015 9:15PM EDT MATTEO PRANDONI/BFANYC/SIPA USA VIA NEWSTHE LL TO BOYTT FASHN LABEL DOLCE & GABBANA, LNCHED BY THE LGBT NEWS ITALIA WEBSE AND SUPPORTED BY A RIGHTLY FUR AND HURT ELTON JOHN, WAS AS EVABLE AS THE SUBSEQUENT HASHTAG #BOYTTDOLCEGABBANA.DIGNERS DOMENI DOLCE AND STEFANO GABBANA, A ONE-TIME UPLE, HAD OPED THAT -VRO FERTILIZATN LED TO “SYNTHETIC” CHILDREN AND THAT GAY PEOPLE ULD NOT BE PARENTS; THIS SPE A 2006 TERVIEW, QUOTED THE DAILY MAIL, WHICH GABBANA SAID HE WANTED TO HAVE A CHILD VIA ARTIFICIAL SEMATN HIMSELF.THE QUTN IS NOT SO MUCH WHY THEY SAID WHAT THEY DID, AND THE SUBSEQUENT BOYTT, BUT WHAT CHANGED STEFANO GABBANA’S MD SO RADILLY. IN 2006, HE WANTED TO HAVE CHILDREN G EXACTLY THE SAME METHOD HE NOW NIGRAT AS A CHOICE OF OTHER GAY PARENTS.“I WANT MY OWN CHILD, A BLOGIL CHILD, THE U OF MY SPERM, NCEIVED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL SEMATN BEE WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN I DON’T LOVE,” HE SAID THEN. ON SUNDAY, LLS TO DOLCE AND GABBANA WENT UNANSWERED. IS THEIR CATHOLIC UPBRGGS? HOW DID THE TWO GAY MEN BEE SO PREJUDICED AGAST LGBT PARENTS? PREDICTABLY AND RIGHTLY, THE INTER WENT TO OUTRAGE OVERDRIVE OVER THE PAIR’S LATT REMARKS THE MARCH 12 EDN OF THE ITALIAN MAGAZE PANORAMA.AS WH THE NTROVERSI OVER MOZILLA’S PROP 8-SUPPORTG CEO BRENDAN EICH AND THE DORCHTER GROUP OF HOTELS, OWNED BY THE SHARIA-LAW SUPPORTG SULTAN OF BNEI, THE IMMEDIATE NSUMER REACTN TO HOMOPHOBIA HAS BEEN TO H D&G WHERE HURTS, AT THE SH REGISTER, AND A LL FOR A BOYTT.THE RIGHT WG HAS TRIED EXACTLY THE SAME THG. ONE MILLN MOMS BOYTTED ELLEN DEGENER WHEN SHE BEME A JCPENNEY SPOKWOMAN—ALTHOUGH THAT BOYTT DIDN’T WORK OUT SO EFFECTIVELY.IN THE TERVIEW WH PANORAMA MAGAZE, DOLCE HELD FORTH ON WHY HE THOUGHT CHILDREN BORN VIA IVF WERE “SYNTHETIC.” NOT ONLY THAT, HE SAID THAT HE ULD NOT HAVE A CHILD BEE HE WAS GAY.“I’M NOT NVCED BY THOSE I LL THE CHILDREN OF CHEMILS, SYNTHETIC CHILDREN,” DOLCE SAID. “WOMBS FOR RENT, SPERM CHOSEN OM A TALOGUE...PSYCHIATRISTS ARE NOT READY TO NONT THE EFFECTS OF THIS EXPERIMENTATN.”“I AM GAY, I NNOT HAVE A CHILD. I GUS YOU NNOT HAVE EVERYTHG LIFE,” DOLCE SAID. “THE ONLY FAY IS THE TRADNAL ONE. LIFE HAS A NATURAL FLOW, THERE ARE THGS THAT SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED. ONE IS THE FAY.”“THE FAY IS NOT A FAD,” ADD GABBANA. “IN THERE IS A SUPERNATURAL SENSE OF BELONGG.”ELTON JOHN, WHO HAS TWO CHILDREN BY IVF WH HIS HBAND, DAVID FURNISH, ROUND ON THE SIGNERS ANGRILY, AND ROUNDGLY. VIA INSTAGRAM, JOHN SPOKE FOR A CHOS OF DOLCE AND GABBANA’S CRICS WHO IMMEDIATELY TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO NMN THE DUO FOR BEG SO NARROW-MD AND PREJUDICED. IT'S HARD ENOUGH WHEN STRAIGHT BIGOTS CRY GAY PARENTG. NOW HIGH-PROFILE GAYS ARE PUTTG THE BOOT TOO. IS PREJUDICE, TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA, SOMETHG ELSE?“HOW DARE YOU REFER TO MY BETIFUL CHILDREN AS ‘SYNTHETIC,’” JOHN WROTE. “AND SHAME ON YOU FOR WAGGG YOUR JUDGMENTAL LTLE FGERS AT IVF—A MIRACLE THAT HAS ALLOWED LEGNS OF LOVG PEOPLE, BOTH STRAIGHT AND GAY, TO FULFIL THEIR DREAM OF HAVG CHILDREN. YOUR ARCHAIC THKG IS OUT OF STEP WH THE TIM, JT LIKE YOUR FASHNS. I SHALL NEVER WEAR DOLCE AND GABBANA EVER AGA. #BOYTTDOLCEGABBANA”RICKY MART, ANOTHER GAY PARENT, SAID ON TWTER, “UR VOIC R 2POWERFULL 2B SPREADG SO MUCH H8. WAKE UP. ITS 2015 LUV URSELV GUYS.”CLEARLY EAKED BY ALL THE NMNATN, DOLCE AND GABBANA ISSUED A STATEMENT SUNDAY SAYG THEY NEVER TEND TO JUDGE ANYONE. ANTICIPATG PERHAPS THE CSHG VISTA OF NO OCKS ON THE OSRS RED RPET, NONE OF THEIR SUNGLASS ON THE HUNKS OF PROVCETOWN THIS SUMMER, AND FACED POSTERS OF THEIR NEXT TIGHTY-WHI ADVERTISG MPAIGN, GABBANA SAID: “ WAS NEVER OUR TENTN TO JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE’S CHOIC. WE DO BELIEVE EEDOM AND LOVE.”THAT STATEMENT WAS PATENTLY RIDICULO, AS HIS EARLIER REMARKS REEKED OF JUDGMENT AND POSSIBLY SELF-HATRED AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER MONS HE WAS CHOOSG TO PROJECT ON TO THE WORLD. DOLCE AND GABBANA ARE SIMPLY NNG SRED OF THE BACKLASH.THEY SWIM BIZARRE SHALLOWS OF THEIR OWN NCEPTN. AT MILAN FASHN WEEK, THEY HAD CELEBRATED MOTHERHOOD, THOUGH TIME SAID SMACKED OF GIMMICKRY. THEN THEY BUTED $8,000 FUR-VERED HEADPHON.ON SUNDAY, AS NMNATN RAED DOWN UPON THEM, THE AP QUOTED DOLCE, SAYG “HE WAS EXPRSG HIS VIEW ABOUT FAY BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCE GROWG UP A TRADNAL SICILIAN FAY ‘MA UP OF A MOTHER, A FATHER AND CHILDREN. I AM VERY WELL AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THERE ARE OTHER TYP OF FAI AND THEY ARE AS LEGIMATE AS THE ONE I’VE KNOWN.’”DOLCE SAID HE WAS EXPRSG HIS PERSONAL VIEWS “WHOUT JUDGG OTHER PEOPLE’S CHOIC.”AGA, HIS ORIGAL WORDS DID NOT MIRROR THIS. THE QUALIFITN WAS FAR OM AN APOLOGY OR RETRACTN, AND WAS CLEARLY MA WH DAMAGE LIMATN MD, ALTHOUGH THE CHANCE OF CEREMONIAL BURNGS OF D&G UNRWEAR OUTSI GAY BARS IS PRETTY SLIM, AS NO ONE WOULD WANT TO OWN UP TO WEARG THEM THE FIRST PLACE. A MASS STOMPG OF THEIR SUNGLASS, HOWEVER, MIGHT BE MORE SATISFYG.MOST OF N’T AFFORD DOLCE & GABBANA, SO ’S MORE REALISTIC TO SAY WE SHALL, WELL, NTUE NOT BUYG THEM. IT WILL BE AN EASY FASHN BOYTT: WE WERE DOG ANYWAY. NOW, WE N NOT BUY D&G WH AN ADD POLIL ZEAL.AS THE NOVELIST PHILIP HENSHER TWEETED: THE MORE TERTG BOYTT QUTN WILL BE WHETHER FASHN MAGAZ AND NEWSPAPERS WILL NTUE TO FEATURE THEIR CLOTH AND RRY THEIR ADVERTISEMENTS—AND IF SO, WHETHER REARS WILL SEEK TO PRSURE THEM OUT OF DOG SO. WILL FAMO ACTRS NOT WEAR THE LABEL AT AWARDS CEREMONI? WILL ACTORS CEASE WEARG THEIR TUX? (CHANNG TATUM AND DAVID OYELOWO BOTH WORE THEIR TUX THIS SEASON.)WHOEVER IS NEXT SEEN A DOLCE & GABBANA DRS OR MPAIGN WILL EVABLY BE SEEN AS SUPPORTG THEIR REMARKS OR ASKED HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THOSE REMARKS.THE LATT FIRTORM IS THE LATT A LONG LE OF JUDGEY GARBAGE THE PAIR HAS DULGED .IN 2006, GABBANA, QUOTED THE DAILY MAIL, SAID: “MY DREAM IS TO HAVE A BABY, NOT TO ADOPT ONE BEE I AM NOT UP TO AND I DON’T FEEL STRONG ENOUGH. I WANT MY OWN CHILD, A BLOGIL CHILD, THE U OF MY SPERM, NCEIVED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL SEMATN BEE WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN I DON’T LOVE.”THE WEEK BEFORE, HE SAID, ACRDG TO THE MAIL, THAT HE HAD ASKED A AR IEND, WHO WAS 12 YEARS YOUNGER, IF SHE WOULD HELP HIM. “I ASKED HER ‘WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THE MOTHER OF MY CHILD?’ SHE WAS LEFT A B SHOCKED AND THE FOLLOWG DAY TELEPHONED AND SAID SHE WAS STILL SHOCKED BUT THOUGHT WAS A GREAT IA.”GABBANA DID NOT REVEAL, THE MAIL ADD, IF THE SURROGACY WAS TO GO AHEAD, BUT SAID: “I AM OPPOSED TO THE IA OF A CHILD GROWG UP WH TWO GAY PARENTS. A CHILD NEEDS A MOTHER AND A FATHER. I ULD NOT IMAGE MY CHILDHOOD WHOUT MY MOTHER. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT IS CEL TO TAKE A BABY AWAY OM S MOTHER.”SADLY, TLY SADLY BEE SHOWS HIS OWN NARROW FN OF PARENTG, WAS NCEIVABLE TO GABBANA THAT HE ULD BOTH BE A GAY PARENT AND ALLOW FOR A SIGNIFINT (AS MUCH AS HE CHOSE TO BE) FEMALE PRENCE HIS CHILD'S LIFE.IN A 2013 TELEGRAPH TERVIEW, DOLCE SAID HE WAS A PRACTICG CATHOLIC. HE AND GABBANA WERE ASKED IF THEY EVER NSIRED GETTG MARRIED, AND THEY ANSWERED UNISON: “WHAT?! NEVER! I DON’T BELIEVE GAY MARRIAGE.”THEY WERE ALSO ASKED IF, CATHOLIC ITALY, THEIR SEXUALY HAD PROVED A PROBLEM. “NO, NEVER,” SAYS DOLCE. “THE FASHN DTRY IS FULL OF GAYS.” ISN’T THAT LOVELY? THEY TAKE FORT OM BEG SURROUND BY GAY PEOPLE THEIR DTRY, THEN E THEIR FLUENCE TO NIGRATE THOSE GAYS WHO DON’T LIVE ACRDG TO THEIR WORLDVIEW. WHAT CHARMERS.IN THE SAME TERVIEW, GABBANA SAID: “I HAD A FEW PROBLEMS. I DIDN’T REALISE UNTIL I STARTED GOG TO THERAPY. I DID FOR 10 YEARS, TWO DAYS A WEEK, AND PRETTY QUICKLY I UNRSTOOD THAT A LOT OF MY SUFFERG, MANY OF MY ISSU, WERE ROOTED MY REALIZG THAT I WAS GAY WHEN I WAS A LTLE BOY. I KNEW I WAS DIFFERENT. THAT MA ME VERY AGILE. IT ALSO MA MY SUCCS WH DOMENI ALL THE SWEETER: I FELT I ULD SAY, HEY, I’M HOMOSEXUAL AND I MAKE ALL THE AMAZG THGS.”THIS, MORE THAN THEIR TOXIC NONSENSE ABOUT GAY PARENTG AND IVF, IS THE MOST TELLG QUOTE ABOUT THEIR NARROW VIEWS AROUND HOMOSEXUALY. FOR GABBANA, LIKE MANY GAYS GROWG UP SADLY, THERE WAS SUFFERG AND QUTNG ABOUT WHO HE WAS.BUT THE BETTER KD OF THERAPY, OR SELF-AWARENS THE WAKE OF ACKNOWLEDGG THIS, SHOULD HAVE TGHT HIM THAT THOSE MONS ARE NOT SIMPLY VANQUISHED BY BEG SUCCSFUL AT WHAT YOU DO BUT BY ALSO FDG SOME PEACE AND UNRSTANDG FOR YOURSELF ABOUT YOURSELF. AND WH THAT, ONE HOP, YOU E TO AN EMBRACG ACCEPTANCE OF THE WIR GAY WORLD AROUND YOU, WHICH IS MA UP OF MANY PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOU.COMG OUT, DONE PROPERLY, IS NOT JT FEELG OK ABOUT YOU, BUT OPENG YOUR EY TO THE MANY FLORA AND FNA OF THE WORLD AROUND YOU, GAY AND STRAIGHT. COMG OUT SUCCSFULLY, G TO TERMS WH WHO YOU ARE, SHOULD MAKE YOU MORE ACCEPTG OF OTHERS, NOT LS.WHAT’S NOT OK IS TAKG TO THE PUBLIC STAGE AND ATTACKG GAY PARENTS, WHO ALREADY HAVE A CHALLENGG ENOUGH TIME RAISG THEIR CHILDREN A PREVAILG NTEXT OF PREJUDICE, BOTH SOCIETAL AND EVERYDAY. AND YOU KNOW THAT PREJUDICE ALL TOO WELL, BEE YOU ARE GAY YOURSELF.ALSO, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR GABBANA, WHO WANTED TO HAVE AN IVF CHILD HIMSELF JT NE YEARS AGO, TO NMN OTHER GAYS DOG THE SAME NOW?IF THERE IS ONE BENEFICIAL IRONY TO THE DOLCE AND GABBANA NTROVERSY, IS A LSON THAT NOT ALL GAY PEOPLE THK ALIKE. THERE ARE GAYS WHO DON’T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, GAY HOMOPHOB, GAY MISOGYNISTS, GAYS WHO DON’T LIKE GAY PARENTS, EVEN GAYS WHO’VE SPIBLY OBSTCTED EQUALY, SOMETIM WH THEIR OWN SIRE FOR POWER MOTIVATG THEM, LIKE J. EDGAR HOOVER. THE RABOW HAS MANY LORS, SOME DARKER THAN OTHERS.THE SIGNERS HAVE EVABLY ATTRACTED SUPPORT FOR THEIR MENTS OM NSERVATIVE QUARTERS, AND WILL BE TRIGUG TO SEE IF THEY CHOOSE TO ALIGN THEMSELV ACTIVELY WH THOSE KDS OF GROUPS.EVEN IF THEY DON’T GO THAT FAR, DOLCE AND GABBANA ARE NOT RETRACTG THEIR STATEMENTS. NOW THE BOYTT QUTN MOV ON TO VOGUE AND OTHER STYLE MAGAZ, NEWSPAPERS, STYLISTS, AND TASTEMAKERS. WILL THEY NTUE TO TAKE DOLCE AND GABBANA'S LUCRATIVE CHECKS AND FEATURE THEIR CLOTH—AND IF SO, HOW WILL NSUMERS RPOND TO THEM FOR DOG SO?THE QUTNS ARE EASY WHEN THE HOMOPHOB ARE STRAIGHT, AND REPRENTG SOCIETI AND UNTRI THAT PERPETUATE HOMOPHOBIA, SOMETIM VLENTLY. BUT NOW THE VILLAS ARE GAY, AND THE FASHN WORLD. THE DOLCE AND GABBANA BOYTT IS AN EASY KNEE-JERK RPONSE, BUT THE SAGA, AND S RPONS AND LIBRATNS, MAY NOT END WH DOLCE AND GABBANA. TIM TEEMAN
• DOLCE & GABBANA BREAK THE INTER COMG OUT AGAST GAY PARENTHOOD, ELTON JOHN CRI VENTTA
• DOLCE & GABBANA RPOND TO BACKLASH OVER THEIR REMARKS ABOUT GAY FAI

STEFANO GABBANA: HOMOSEXUAL DOLCE AND GABBANA -FOUNR NOUNC E OF 'GAY' AS A LABEL

Stay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletterStay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletter Stefano Gabbana - one half of Italian signer label Dolce & Gabbana - says he is tired of beg fed by his sexualy and has asked that people stop g the word “gay” relatn to him.

Speakg to Italian newspaper Corriere lla Sera Mr Gabbana said, “I don’t want to be lled gay, bee I am simply a man... ”He ntued, “The word ‘gay’ was vented by those who need to label people, and I don’t want to be intified by my sexual choic.

”Gabbana, who, along wh his ex-partner and -signer Domeni Dolce, is openly gay, has had enough of people nsirg sexualy above human Gabbana told the newspaper, “I thought that I uld help spread a new culture as a famo person, a culture no longer based on gay rights but on human rights, ” but is now adamant that “We are human begs before beg gay, heterosexual, or bisexual.

BOYTT DOLCE AND GABBANA: GAYS CAN BE HYPOCRIL, PREJUDICED DUMBASS, TOOFAY VALUTHE FASHN SIGNERS NMN ‘SYNTHETIC’ CHILDREN BORN OF IVF, WHEN STEFANO GABBANA HIMSELF ONCE WANTED TO HAVE CHILDREN BY . HOW DO HE EXPLA THAT?TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 15, 2015 9:15PM EDT MATTEO PRANDONI/BFANYC/SIPA USA VIA NEWSTHE LL TO BOYTT FASHN LABEL DOLCE & GABBANA, LNCHED BY THE LGBT NEWS ITALIA WEBSE AND SUPPORTED BY A RIGHTLY FUR AND HURT ELTON JOHN, WAS AS EVABLE AS THE SUBSEQUENT HASHTAG #BOYTTDOLCEGABBANA.DIGNERS DOMENI DOLCE AND STEFANO GABBANA, A ONE-TIME UPLE, HAD OPED THAT -VRO FERTILIZATN LED TO “SYNTHETIC” CHILDREN AND THAT GAY PEOPLE ULD NOT BE PARENTS; THIS SPE A 2006 TERVIEW, QUOTED THE DAILY MAIL, WHICH GABBANA SAID HE WANTED TO HAVE A CHILD VIA ARTIFICIAL SEMATN HIMSELF.THE QUTN IS NOT SO MUCH WHY THEY SAID WHAT THEY DID, AND THE SUBSEQUENT BOYTT, BUT WHAT CHANGED STEFANO GABBANA’S MD SO RADILLY. IN 2006, HE WANTED TO HAVE CHILDREN G EXACTLY THE SAME METHOD HE NOW NIGRAT AS A CHOICE OF OTHER GAY PARENTS.“I WANT MY OWN CHILD, A BLOGIL CHILD, THE U OF MY SPERM, NCEIVED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL SEMATN BEE WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN I DON’T LOVE,” HE SAID THEN. ON SUNDAY, LLS TO DOLCE AND GABBANA WENT UNANSWERED. IS THEIR CATHOLIC UPBRGGS? HOW DID THE TWO GAY MEN BEE SO PREJUDICED AGAST LGBT PARENTS? PREDICTABLY AND RIGHTLY, THE INTER WENT TO OUTRAGE OVERDRIVE OVER THE PAIR’S LATT REMARKS THE MARCH 12 EDN OF THE ITALIAN MAGAZE PANORAMA.AS WH THE NTROVERSI OVER MOZILLA’S PROP 8-SUPPORTG CEO BRENDAN EICH AND THE DORCHTER GROUP OF HOTELS, OWNED BY THE SHARIA-LAW SUPPORTG SULTAN OF BNEI, THE IMMEDIATE NSUMER REACTN TO HOMOPHOBIA HAS BEEN TO H D&G WHERE HURTS, AT THE SH REGISTER, AND A LL FOR A BOYTT.THE RIGHT WG HAS TRIED EXACTLY THE SAME THG. ONE MILLN MOMS BOYTTED ELLEN DEGENER WHEN SHE BEME A JCPENNEY SPOKWOMAN—ALTHOUGH THAT BOYTT DIDN’T WORK OUT SO EFFECTIVELY.IN THE TERVIEW WH PANORAMA MAGAZE, DOLCE HELD FORTH ON WHY HE THOUGHT CHILDREN BORN VIA IVF WERE “SYNTHETIC.” NOT ONLY THAT, HE SAID THAT HE ULD NOT HAVE A CHILD BEE HE WAS GAY.“I’M NOT NVCED BY THOSE I LL THE CHILDREN OF CHEMILS, SYNTHETIC CHILDREN,” DOLCE SAID. “WOMBS FOR RENT, SPERM CHOSEN OM A TALOGUE...PSYCHIATRISTS ARE NOT READY TO NONT THE EFFECTS OF THIS EXPERIMENTATN.”“I AM GAY, I NNOT HAVE A CHILD. I GUS YOU NNOT HAVE EVERYTHG LIFE,” DOLCE SAID. “THE ONLY FAY IS THE TRADNAL ONE. LIFE HAS A NATURAL FLOW, THERE ARE THGS THAT SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED. ONE IS THE FAY.”“THE FAY IS NOT A FAD,” ADD GABBANA. “IN THERE IS A SUPERNATURAL SENSE OF BELONGG.”ELTON JOHN, WHO HAS TWO CHILDREN BY IVF WH HIS HBAND, DAVID FURNISH, ROUND ON THE SIGNERS ANGRILY, AND ROUNDGLY. VIA INSTAGRAM, JOHN SPOKE FOR A CHOS OF DOLCE AND GABBANA’S CRICS WHO IMMEDIATELY TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO NMN THE DUO FOR BEG SO NARROW-MD AND PREJUDICED. IT'S HARD ENOUGH WHEN STRAIGHT BIGOTS CRY GAY PARENTG. NOW HIGH-PROFILE GAYS ARE PUTTG THE BOOT TOO. IS PREJUDICE, TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA, SOMETHG ELSE?“HOW DARE YOU REFER TO MY BETIFUL CHILDREN AS ‘SYNTHETIC,’” JOHN WROTE. “AND SHAME ON YOU FOR WAGGG YOUR JUDGMENTAL LTLE FGERS AT IVF—A MIRACLE THAT HAS ALLOWED LEGNS OF LOVG PEOPLE, BOTH STRAIGHT AND GAY, TO FULFIL THEIR DREAM OF HAVG CHILDREN. YOUR ARCHAIC THKG IS OUT OF STEP WH THE TIM, JT LIKE YOUR FASHNS. I SHALL NEVER WEAR DOLCE AND GABBANA EVER AGA. #BOYTTDOLCEGABBANA”RICKY MART, ANOTHER GAY PARENT, SAID ON TWTER, “UR VOIC R 2POWERFULL 2B SPREADG SO MUCH H8. WAKE UP. ITS 2015 LUV URSELV GUYS.”CLEARLY EAKED BY ALL THE NMNATN, DOLCE AND GABBANA ISSUED A STATEMENT SUNDAY SAYG THEY NEVER TEND TO JUDGE ANYONE. ANTICIPATG PERHAPS THE CSHG VISTA OF NO OCKS ON THE OSRS RED RPET, NONE OF THEIR SUNGLASS ON THE HUNKS OF PROVCETOWN THIS SUMMER, AND FACED POSTERS OF THEIR NEXT TIGHTY-WHI ADVERTISG MPAIGN, GABBANA SAID: “ WAS NEVER OUR TENTN TO JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE’S CHOIC. WE DO BELIEVE EEDOM AND LOVE.”THAT STATEMENT WAS PATENTLY RIDICULO, AS HIS EARLIER REMARKS REEKED OF JUDGMENT AND POSSIBLY SELF-HATRED AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER MONS HE WAS CHOOSG TO PROJECT ON TO THE WORLD. DOLCE AND GABBANA ARE SIMPLY NNG SRED OF THE BACKLASH.THEY SWIM BIZARRE SHALLOWS OF THEIR OWN NCEPTN. AT MILAN FASHN WEEK, THEY HAD CELEBRATED MOTHERHOOD, THOUGH TIME SAID SMACKED OF GIMMICKRY. THEN THEY BUTED $8,000 FUR-VERED HEADPHON.ON SUNDAY, AS NMNATN RAED DOWN UPON THEM, THE AP QUOTED DOLCE, SAYG “HE WAS EXPRSG HIS VIEW ABOUT FAY BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCE GROWG UP A TRADNAL SICILIAN FAY ‘MA UP OF A MOTHER, A FATHER AND CHILDREN. I AM VERY WELL AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THERE ARE OTHER TYP OF FAI AND THEY ARE AS LEGIMATE AS THE ONE I’VE KNOWN.’”DOLCE SAID HE WAS EXPRSG HIS PERSONAL VIEWS “WHOUT JUDGG OTHER PEOPLE’S CHOIC.”AGA, HIS ORIGAL WORDS DID NOT MIRROR THIS. THE QUALIFITN WAS FAR OM AN APOLOGY OR RETRACTN, AND WAS CLEARLY MA WH DAMAGE LIMATN MD, ALTHOUGH THE CHANCE OF CEREMONIAL BURNGS OF D&G UNRWEAR OUTSI GAY BARS IS PRETTY SLIM, AS NO ONE WOULD WANT TO OWN UP TO WEARG THEM THE FIRST PLACE. A MASS STOMPG OF THEIR SUNGLASS, HOWEVER, MIGHT BE MORE SATISFYG.MOST OF N’T AFFORD DOLCE & GABBANA, SO ’S MORE REALISTIC TO SAY WE SHALL, WELL, NTUE NOT BUYG THEM. IT WILL BE AN EASY FASHN BOYTT: WE WERE DOG ANYWAY. NOW, WE N NOT BUY D&G WH AN ADD POLIL ZEAL.AS THE NOVELIST PHILIP HENSHER TWEETED: THE MORE TERTG BOYTT QUTN WILL BE WHETHER FASHN MAGAZ AND NEWSPAPERS WILL NTUE TO FEATURE THEIR CLOTH AND RRY THEIR ADVERTISEMENTS—AND IF SO, WHETHER REARS WILL SEEK TO PRSURE THEM OUT OF DOG SO. WILL FAMO ACTRS NOT WEAR THE LABEL AT AWARDS CEREMONI? WILL ACTORS CEASE WEARG THEIR TUX? (CHANNG TATUM AND DAVID OYELOWO BOTH WORE THEIR TUX THIS SEASON.)WHOEVER IS NEXT SEEN A DOLCE & GABBANA DRS OR MPAIGN WILL EVABLY BE SEEN AS SUPPORTG THEIR REMARKS OR ASKED HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THOSE REMARKS.THE LATT FIRTORM IS THE LATT A LONG LE OF JUDGEY GARBAGE THE PAIR HAS DULGED .IN 2006, GABBANA, QUOTED THE DAILY MAIL, SAID: “MY DREAM IS TO HAVE A BABY, NOT TO ADOPT ONE BEE I AM NOT UP TO AND I DON’T FEEL STRONG ENOUGH. I WANT MY OWN CHILD, A BLOGIL CHILD, THE U OF MY SPERM, NCEIVED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL SEMATN BEE WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN I DON’T LOVE.”THE WEEK BEFORE, HE SAID, ACRDG TO THE MAIL, THAT HE HAD ASKED A AR IEND, WHO WAS 12 YEARS YOUNGER, IF SHE WOULD HELP HIM. “I ASKED HER ‘WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THE MOTHER OF MY CHILD?’ SHE WAS LEFT A B SHOCKED AND THE FOLLOWG DAY TELEPHONED AND SAID SHE WAS STILL SHOCKED BUT THOUGHT WAS A GREAT IA.”GABBANA DID NOT REVEAL, THE MAIL ADD, IF THE SURROGACY WAS TO GO AHEAD, BUT SAID: “I AM OPPOSED TO THE IA OF A CHILD GROWG UP WH TWO GAY PARENTS. A CHILD NEEDS A MOTHER AND A FATHER. I ULD NOT IMAGE MY CHILDHOOD WHOUT MY MOTHER. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT IS CEL TO TAKE A BABY AWAY OM S MOTHER.”SADLY, TLY SADLY BEE SHOWS HIS OWN NARROW FN OF PARENTG, WAS NCEIVABLE TO GABBANA THAT HE ULD BOTH BE A GAY PARENT AND ALLOW FOR A SIGNIFINT (AS MUCH AS HE CHOSE TO BE) FEMALE PRENCE HIS CHILD'S LIFE.IN A 2013 TELEGRAPH TERVIEW, DOLCE SAID HE WAS A PRACTICG CATHOLIC. HE AND GABBANA WERE ASKED IF THEY EVER NSIRED GETTG MARRIED, AND THEY ANSWERED UNISON: “WHAT?! NEVER! I DON’T BELIEVE GAY MARRIAGE.”THEY WERE ALSO ASKED IF, CATHOLIC ITALY, THEIR SEXUALY HAD PROVED A PROBLEM. “NO, NEVER,” SAYS DOLCE. “THE FASHN DTRY IS FULL OF GAYS.” ISN’T THAT LOVELY? THEY TAKE FORT OM BEG SURROUND BY GAY PEOPLE THEIR DTRY, THEN E THEIR FLUENCE TO NIGRATE THOSE GAYS WHO DON’T LIVE ACRDG TO THEIR WORLDVIEW. WHAT CHARMERS.IN THE SAME TERVIEW, GABBANA SAID: “I HAD A FEW PROBLEMS. I DIDN’T REALISE UNTIL I STARTED GOG TO THERAPY. I DID FOR 10 YEARS, TWO DAYS A WEEK, AND PRETTY QUICKLY I UNRSTOOD THAT A LOT OF MY SUFFERG, MANY OF MY ISSU, WERE ROOTED MY REALIZG THAT I WAS GAY WHEN I WAS A LTLE BOY. I KNEW I WAS DIFFERENT. THAT MA ME VERY AGILE. IT ALSO MA MY SUCCS WH DOMENI ALL THE SWEETER: I FELT I ULD SAY, HEY, I’M HOMOSEXUAL AND I MAKE ALL THE AMAZG THGS.”THIS, MORE THAN THEIR TOXIC NONSENSE ABOUT GAY PARENTG AND IVF, IS THE MOST TELLG QUOTE ABOUT THEIR NARROW VIEWS AROUND HOMOSEXUALY. FOR GABBANA, LIKE MANY GAYS GROWG UP SADLY, THERE WAS SUFFERG AND QUTNG ABOUT WHO HE WAS.BUT THE BETTER KD OF THERAPY, OR SELF-AWARENS THE WAKE OF ACKNOWLEDGG THIS, SHOULD HAVE TGHT HIM THAT THOSE MONS ARE NOT SIMPLY VANQUISHED BY BEG SUCCSFUL AT WHAT YOU DO BUT BY ALSO FDG SOME PEACE AND UNRSTANDG FOR YOURSELF ABOUT YOURSELF. AND WH THAT, ONE HOP, YOU E TO AN EMBRACG ACCEPTANCE OF THE WIR GAY WORLD AROUND YOU, WHICH IS MA UP OF MANY PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOU.COMG OUT, DONE PROPERLY, IS NOT JT FEELG OK ABOUT YOU, BUT OPENG YOUR EY TO THE MANY FLORA AND FNA OF THE WORLD AROUND YOU, GAY AND STRAIGHT. COMG OUT SUCCSFULLY, G TO TERMS WH WHO YOU ARE, SHOULD MAKE YOU MORE ACCEPTG OF OTHERS, NOT LS.WHAT’S NOT OK IS TAKG TO THE PUBLIC STAGE AND ATTACKG GAY PARENTS, WHO ALREADY HAVE A CHALLENGG ENOUGH TIME RAISG THEIR CHILDREN A PREVAILG NTEXT OF PREJUDICE, BOTH SOCIETAL AND EVERYDAY. AND YOU KNOW THAT PREJUDICE ALL TOO WELL, BEE YOU ARE GAY YOURSELF.ALSO, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR GABBANA, WHO WANTED TO HAVE AN IVF CHILD HIMSELF JT NE YEARS AGO, TO NMN OTHER GAYS DOG THE SAME NOW?IF THERE IS ONE BENEFICIAL IRONY TO THE DOLCE AND GABBANA NTROVERSY, IS A LSON THAT NOT ALL GAY PEOPLE THK ALIKE. THERE ARE GAYS WHO DON’T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, GAY HOMOPHOB, GAY MISOGYNISTS, GAYS WHO DON’T LIKE GAY PARENTS, EVEN GAYS WHO’VE SPIBLY OBSTCTED EQUALY, SOMETIM WH THEIR OWN SIRE FOR POWER MOTIVATG THEM, LIKE J. EDGAR HOOVER. THE RABOW HAS MANY LORS, SOME DARKER THAN OTHERS.THE SIGNERS HAVE EVABLY ATTRACTED SUPPORT FOR THEIR MENTS OM NSERVATIVE QUARTERS, AND WILL BE TRIGUG TO SEE IF THEY CHOOSE TO ALIGN THEMSELV ACTIVELY WH THOSE KDS OF GROUPS.EVEN IF THEY DON’T GO THAT FAR, DOLCE AND GABBANA ARE NOT RETRACTG THEIR STATEMENTS. NOW THE BOYTT QUTN MOV ON TO VOGUE AND OTHER STYLE MAGAZ, NEWSPAPERS, STYLISTS, AND TASTEMAKERS. WILL THEY NTUE TO TAKE DOLCE AND GABBANA'S LUCRATIVE CHECKS AND FEATURE THEIR CLOTH—AND IF SO, HOW WILL NSUMERS RPOND TO THEM FOR DOG SO?THE QUTNS ARE EASY WHEN THE HOMOPHOB ARE STRAIGHT, AND REPRENTG SOCIETI AND UNTRI THAT PERPETUATE HOMOPHOBIA, SOMETIM VLENTLY. BUT NOW THE VILLAS ARE GAY, AND THE FASHN WORLD. THE DOLCE AND GABBANA BOYTT IS AN EASY KNEE-JERK RPONSE, BUT THE SAGA, AND S RPONS AND LIBRATNS, MAY NOT END WH DOLCE AND GABBANA. TIM TEEMAN

”The signer nounc e of the label 'gay'Durg the same nversatn, the signer also shared how he realised he was homosexual at age 18 when his girliend - “who I really liked” - me to vis for a weekend Milan. ”Acrdg to Gabbana, this realisatn me after “knowg about beg gay for a while, ” but “not havg the urage to adm . ”And yet spe this self-acceptance, Mr Gabbana claims gay associatns “often serve as a fence but I don’t want to be protected by anyone, bee I’ve done nothg wrong.

”Mr Gabbana’s ments e after a seri of unpopular opns shared by the signg 2015, Mr Gabban and Mr Dolce ostracised themselv om the gay muny when they shared their thoughts on IVF children, llg the children, “children of chemistry, synthetic children. ”As a monly ed method for homosexual upl to have children of their own, the signers’ ments offend many the gay muny, cludg Sir Elton John, who has two IVF children wh hband David Furnish.

Rpondg to the ments, Sir Elton John wrote on Instagram, “How dare you refer to my betiful children as ‘synthetic, ’” before ntug, “And shame on you for waggg your judgmental ltle fgers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legns of lovg people, both straight and gay, to fulfil their dream of havg children. ”Elton John rponds to Dolce and Gabbana on Instagram regardg IVF mentsWhile Mr Gabbana’s views on the age of “gay” are now clear, is unclear whether Mr Dolce shar the same views on the e of the term.

DOLCE & GABBANA BREAK THE INTER COMG OUT AGAST GAY PARENTHOOD, ELTON JOHN CRI VENTTA

This story was published on Augt 30, 2021 and updated on September 26, 2022Dolce & Gabbana's Sprg/Summer 2023 llectn, signed llaboratn wh Kim Kardashian, seems to have given the fashn dtry llective flashy event, attend by dtry heavyweights cludg Moni Bellucci, Edward Ennful, and the Kardashian clan (Domeni Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's biggt fans, seems), garnered a slew of celebry style buzz, as well as some bafflgly glowg brand's latt stunt — and s seemg embrace by the fashn gatekeepers of Condé Nast and Hearst — beg the qutn: do anyone remember Dolce & Gabbana's pattern of racist, homophobic, misogynist, and all-together c behavr? 2015Both Dolce and Gabbana publicly oppose the ia of gay upl havg children. Gorki me unr fire Monday when eelance wrer and edor Evan Ross Katz tweeted a photo of the gay televisn personaly, who is currently a talkg head on Fashn Police, and chastised him for supportg a pany wh such a poor track rerd on LGBTQ+ issu.

"Oh baby not my gay ass, " Katz wrote. Oh baby not my gay ass. In the same terview, he claimed that he did not believe that same-sex upl should be raisg children at all, sayg that he was "opposed to the ia of a child growg up wh two gay parents.

"If such rhetoric om one of the most visible LGBTQ+ people fashn weren't bafflg enough, Gabbana has claimed that he rejects the label "gay" bee he is "simply a man... Full stop, " as if beg gay and beg a man were somehow opposn to one another.

DOLCE & GABBANA RPOND TO BACKLASH OVER THEIR REMARKS ABOUT GAY FAI

"The word 'gay' was vented by those who need to label people, " he told the Italian newspaper Corriere lla Sera, "and I don't want to be intified by my sexual choic.