Mic in Elton John on How Beg Gay Affected His Life, Career - Variety

Contents:

• ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR BLSG S ‘ROCKETMAN’ VTMENT BUT NOT GAY MARRIAGE
• ELTON JOHN ATTACKS BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• ELTON JOHN ATTACKS BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• SIR ELTON JOHN: J WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED GAY MARRIAGE
• ELTON JOHN: “BEG MARRIED ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER YOU’RE STRAIGHT OR GAY”
• ELTON JOHN CALLS OUT ‘HYPOCRISY’ OF THE VATIN FOR REFG TO BLS GAY MARRIAG
• ELTON JOHN SLAMS CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR ‘HYPOCRISY’ OF GAY MARRIAGE STANCE AFTER ‘ROCKETMAN’
• ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR 'VTG LNS' ROCKETMAN AND STILL REFG TO BLS GAY MARRIAG
• ELTON JOHN SAYS J WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE
• WHO KNOWS WHAT J THOUGHT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE? YET HE HAS E TO EMBODY PASSN
• DOLCE & GABBANA BREAK THE INTER COMG OUT AGAST GAY PARENTHOOD, ELTON JOHN CRI VENTTA

ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR BLSG S ‘ROCKETMAN’ VTMENT BUT NOT GAY MARRIAGE

After John me out as gay the same year they were divorced, and later married partner David Furnish, that didn't prove to be the se.

“How n the Vatin refe to bls gay marriag bee they ‘are s’, yet happily make a prof om vtg lns ‘Rocketman’ — a film which celebrat my fdg happs om my marriage to David??

5 ln expendure rerd Febary of this year related to fance for the 2019 films Men Black: Internatnal and Elton John’s rather steamy bpic Rocketman, which portrays the entertaer’s dg problems and is the first stud movie to portray gay sex between men an thentic way. “While vtg mastream entertament is hardly sful, the great ntradictn is that the Catholic Church preach to the vout that homosexualy is a s.

ELTON JOHN ATTACKS BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE

”The Vatin matas that LGBTQ people mt be treated wh digny and rpect but that gay sex is “trsilly disorred. ” Catholic teachg holds that marriage between a man and woman is part of God’s plan and is tend for s new document, the Vatin said qutns had been raised recent years about whether the church should bls same-sex unns a sacramental way, particularly after the pope had sisted on the need to better wele and acpany gay people the Vatin strsed the “fundamental and cisive distctn” between gay dividuals and same-sex unns, notg that “the negative judgment on the blsg of unns of persons of the same sex do not imply a judgment on persons.

ELTON JOHN ATTACKS BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE

“[T]here are so many people I know who are gay and love their relign, ” John, a self-clared atheist, told a London newspaper 2006.

Elton John has lashed out agast Ameri's "hateful" attu toward homosexualy, llg on California to lift s ban on gay marriage. "Although John has long been an arnt supporter of LGBT rights, he has not always been vol the movement to legalise gay marriage. "If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership, " he told USA Today at the time.

[And yet] I don't have everythg bee I don't have the rpect of people like the church or policians who tell me that I'm not worthy, that I'm lser bee I'm gay.

SIR ELTON JOHN: J WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED GAY MARRIAGE

You're gay. In an exclive terview wh Variety at last month’s Cann Film Ftival, jt hours before the world premiere of his long--the-works bpic “Rocketman, ” John spoke ndidly about the “privilege” of beg a gay entertaer.

I’ve been very privileged bee I’m a bs that kd of accepts gay people.

ELTON JOHN: “BEG MARRIED ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER YOU’RE STRAIGHT OR GAY”

But 1992, at age 45, he was quoted the same magaze sayg he was “que fortable beg gay.

ELTON JOHN CALLS OUT ‘HYPOCRISY’ OF THE VATIN FOR REFG TO BLS GAY MARRIAG

Now 72, John tells Variety that he was 23 when he actually realized he was gay. Acrdg to “Rocketman, ” she told her son he would never be tly loved bee he was gay.

ELTON JOHN SLAMS CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR ‘HYPOCRISY’ OF GAY MARRIAGE STANCE AFTER ‘ROCKETMAN’

“It’s wonrful to be gay. I love beg gay.

ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR 'VTG LNS' ROCKETMAN AND STILL REFG TO BLS GAY MARRIAG

“And I thk I wouldn’t have had the life I’ve had if I hadn’t been gay.

ELTON JOHN SAYS J WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE

“Don’t let anybody torture you for beg gay or for your sexualy. “There are so many wonrful diverse people the world — straight people, gay people [and] transgenr people. People who should know better plac of rponsibily [and] attack gay people, transgenr people … they claim to be close to God, [but] they uldn’t be further away om God if they tried.

J would have been a supporter of gay marriage, Sir Elton John has mician, who plans to marry his civil partner David Furnish next year a "very quiet" ceremony, said that l preventg gay clergy om marryg and requirg Catholic prits to be celibate were "old and stupid thgs" told Sky News's Murnaghan programme: "The church hierarchy, the tradnalists, might be up arms about but tim have changed.

"The performer offered to troduce Rsian print, Vladimir Put, to members of the gay muny earlier this year to show the impact of "eply divisive" said he plans to meet wh the Rsian lear when he viss the untry add: "It's no good puttg up a wall and sayg I'm not talkg to the people; the only way thgs get solved is by talkg to people. "Havg our civil partnership was an credible breakthrough for people that have mpaigned for a long time - through the 60s and the 50s England when was so hard to be gay and hard to be open about .

WHO KNOWS WHAT J THOUGHT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE? YET HE HAS E TO EMBODY PASSN

So when to issu such as vows of celibacy for Catholic prits and gay clergymen beg able to marry, John said the church needs to tch up wh the tim.

" Wh a reer of his own entertament, Furnish and John emerged as an unlikely power uple, phg for gay rights while solidifyg their own unn and buildg a fay together.

K., civil partnerships for gay upl had newly been implemented.

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

Then, on December 21, 2005, Elton John and documentarian David Furnish beme the first gay uple the U. In a world where nearly 3 billn people live untri that outlaw homosexualy, and where gay marriage is legal only 21 natns, David and I know how lucky we are to love one another openly, proudly and legally. But for the lns of gay people hopg, prayg and fightg to one day have the opportuny to wed, their stggle is about more than the right to marry — ’s about equaly.

The goal of the gay-rights movement is ls about walkg down the aisle, and more about walkg down the street — wh digny, wh pri, and whout fear of harassment or discrimatn.