Luther Vandross was gay, although he never 'me out' while he was alive. It has been mentned by his close iends, Patti LaBelle specifilly, that he felt as though his sexual preference would his reer if ever me to light.
Contents:
- PATTI LABELLE: LUTHER VANDROSS DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY BEE OF HIS MOM
- WAS LUTHER VANDROSS GAY?
- WHO KNEW?! PATTI LABELLE CONFIRMS LUTHER VANDROSS WAS GAY + SHAR WHY HE NEVER CAME OUT PUBLICLY… (VIDEO)
- FRIENDS CLAIM LUTHER VANDROSS WAS GAY
PATTI LABELLE: LUTHER VANDROSS DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY BEE OF HIS MOM
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WAS LUTHER VANDROSS GAY?
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Not to mentn, beg black and gay durg that time perd was a recipe for hate and disaster.
If Luther would have e out as gay, he uld have lost all of his female fans bee their ey he was no longer “attaable”. But wh the ia of him beg gay md, certaly adds a new emotnal pth and longg to his love songs. Wh Andy Cohen, LaBelle nfirmed what had been long mored for s about the R&B crooner: he was a gay man.
Even wh today’s cril stris the civil rights and social acceptance of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, beg ‘out’ remas a brave and bold enavor. And if you’re Black and gay, ’s even more radil.
WHO KNEW?! PATTI LABELLE CONFIRMS LUTHER VANDROSS WAS GAY + SHAR WHY HE NEVER CAME OUT PUBLICLY… (VIDEO)
The real tragedy Patti LaBelle outg Luther Vandross as gay after his ath is not the outg self. * luther vandross gay *
One n only image the anxiety Luther Vandross mt have felt to even fathom the ia of beg an out gay Black man at the height of his mil reer the ’80s.
Even if he wanted to, there was no historil ntext for Vandross to feel secure knowg that he would’ve still been loved for his talents spe the the muny’s homophobia and ep obssn wh toxic masculy. Though the pop world had Boy Gee and Elton John, as Luther’s genre ntemporari, he would have been R&B’s lone gay wolf.
FRIENDS CLAIM LUTHER VANDROSS WAS GAY
In an upg issue of Out Magaze, iends of Luther Vandross reveal he was gay. Michael Mto, one of Vandross' iends quoted the story, says * luther vandross gay *
Beg the first the face of such opprsn is always dntg; particularly when one has to nont both racism and homophobia.
And for the man who ma women swoon over his velvet voice, beg gay jt wasn’t good for bs. In fact, don’t appear Vandross ever really red that people thought he was gay–he was simply unwillg to nfirm or ny . Like any Black gay man, closeted or not, Vandross only sired what anyone wanted out of life: love and happs.