Gloria Estefan on why she didn’t want gay dghter to e out

Contents:

• GLORIA ESTEFAN OFFERED TO 'CARRY' GAY FLAG AT PRI FOR DGHTER EY BEFORE SHE CAME OUT
• GLORIA ESTEFAN ON WHY SHE DIDN’T WANT GAY DGHTER EY TO E OUT TO HER MOTHER: ‘LIFE IS PLITED’
• GLORIA ESTEFAN’S DGHTER EY ESTEFAN SAID SHE WAS TOLD THAT HER BEG GAY WOULD KILL HER GRANDMOTHER
• GLORIA ESTEFAN REVEALS SHE WAS ‘RELUCTANT’ TO LET EY ESTEFAN TELL HER GRANDMOTHER THAT SHE WAS GAY
• GLORIA ESTEFAN SAYS WAS ‘TOUGH’ REVISG HER DGHTER EY'S G OUT AS GAY
• IN CONVERSATN: GLORIA ESTEFAN ON HER STGGL WH HER GAY DGHTER
• EY ESTEFAN SAYS RELATNSHIP WH MOM GLORIA ESTEFAN BEME STRAED AFTER SHE ME OUT AS GAY
• EY ESTEFAN REVEALS MOTHER GLORIA ESTEFAN'S REACTN TO HER COMG OUT AS GAY

GLORIA ESTEFAN OFFERED TO 'CARRY' GAY FLAG AT PRI FOR DGHTER EY BEFORE SHE CAME OUT

"I remember beg my bedroom and tellg you, 'Mama, are you gay?

"'Do you want to rry the gay flag, bee if you want I will get on that para float and I will rry that flag? "You said to me, 'Mom, I'm not gay, '" Gloria says. 7:12Johnny Louis/Getty Imag, FILEGloria Estefan shar how her Cuban grandmother was her biggt champn Gloria Estefan and her dghter Ey are publicly discsg the 25-year-old's sexual orientatn for the first a new episo of "Red Table Talk: The Estefans, " the legendary sger, her dghter and her niece, Lili, had a ndid nversatn about how they first approached the Estefan said that although she spected her dghter might be gay, she wasn't Estefan first went public wh her same-sex relatnship 2017,.

"I remember beg my bedroom and I remember tellg you, 'Mama, are you gay?

GLORIA ESTEFAN ON WHY SHE DIDN’T WANT GAY DGHTER EY TO E OUT TO HER MOTHER: ‘LIFE IS PLITED’

Do you want to rry the gay flag? "And at that moment you said to me, 'Mom, I'm not gay, ' bee that wasn't the word your md for who you were.

GLORIA ESTEFAN’S DGHTER EY ESTEFAN SAID SHE WAS TOLD THAT HER BEG GAY WOULD KILL HER GRANDMOTHER

The same way that there are ltle gay kids that need to hear my si, there are parents who love their kids to ath and they jt don't unrstand what they need at that moment, " she said.

"We were the r and you, like, leaned over very excedly and asked your dad and I, ‘Guys, do you thk that I might be gay? Gloria Estefan is explag why she didn't want dghter Ey Estefan to e out as gay ont of her grandmother. “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.

"Three years ago, I lost my mother and Ey me out [as gay] at the same time. In a recent terview wh CNN’s Chris Wallace, the sger said that revealg that her dghter is gay to her mom would have been tricky. “We were the r, and you like leaned over very excedly and asked your dad and I, ‘Guys, do you thk that I might be gay?

GLORIA ESTEFAN REVEALS SHE WAS ‘RELUCTANT’ TO LET EY ESTEFAN TELL HER GRANDMOTHER THAT SHE WAS GAY

“To tell you the tth, was a non-issue, the part about her beg gay, ” Estefan explaed. From gay Ao Lato lawmaker Rchie Torr to transgenr “Pose” star Mj Rodriguez, queer Latos are makg both history and wav a number of fields. “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, ” he wrote.

GLORIA ESTEFAN SAYS WAS ‘TOUGH’ REVISG HER DGHTER EY'S G OUT AS GAY

10, Wdle / Getty Imag for iHeartMedia fileIn a July 2020 terview on Apple Mic’s Proud Rad, Mart said he stggled wh whether to e out as gay or bisexual. “And then I said, ‘Rick, you are a very fortunate homosexual man. You are gay.

” Guillermo DíazThe openly gay actor, bt known for his rol Showtime’s “Weeds” and ABC’s “Sndal, ” was born to Cuban parents New Jersey and grew up New York Cy’s Washgton Heights neighborhood. I jt remember feelg REALLY proud to be gay. ” tweeted gay edian and wrer Sampson Rchie TorrRep.

Rchie Torr beme the first gay Ao Lato member of Congrs when he won his seat for New York’s 15th Congrsnal District, the poort district the untry. The same way that there are ltle gay kids that need to hear my si, there are parents who love their kids to ath and they jt don't unrstand what they need at that moment. She add: "You said to me, 'Mom, I'm not 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.

EY ESTEFAN SAYS RELATNSHIP WH MOM GLORIA ESTEFAN BEME STRAED AFTER SHE ME OUT AS GAY

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?

EY ESTEFAN REVEALS MOTHER GLORIA ESTEFAN'S REACTN TO HER COMG OUT AS GAY

But hontly that word “acceptance” to me is rough bee I don’t have to “accept” that Ey is gay. 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. ” 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. “We had no clue, ” the “Bad Boy” sger said about Ey beg gay a clip om a new episo of"Red Table Talk: The Estefans" that featur her, Ey and Gloria’s niece, TODAY All Day!