'Rocketman', the Elton John mil, tak a moment to reimage how gay sex uld be picted. Here's why the albe brief sex scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madn, who play Elton John and John Reid, feels sensual, fun, and a big step the right directn for Hollywood.
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUAL GOP RAD HOST ASSS REPUBLIN SUG ANOTHER REPUBLIN FOR CALLG HIM A "GAY DEMOCRAT"
- ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN
- FOTTEN SGER EMERG OM SERT AS 'GAY '70S IN'
- ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S REAL-LIFE ROLLER-COASTER RELATNSHIP WH JOHN REIDTARON EGERTON AND RICHARD MADN PORTRAY JOHN AND REID’S STEAMY ’70S ROMANCE—THE FIRST RELATNSHIP ELTON JOHN HAD WH A MAN.BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019ELTON JOHN KISSG HIS MANAGER JOHN REID ON CHEEK, 1979.BY RICHARD YOUNG/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEELTON JOHN WOULD NOT SACRIFICE SEX FOR A PG-13 RATG—NOT LIFE, AND NOT ROCKETMAN, THE MIL BPIC STARRG TARON EGERTON. “EVERYONE KNOWS I HAD QUE A LOT OF [SEX AND DGS] DURG THE ’70S AND ’80S,” JOHN EXPLAED THE GUARDIAN THIS MONTH. “SO THERE DIDN’T SEEM TO BE MUCH POT MAKG A MOVIE THAT IMPLIED THAT AFTER EVERY GIG, I’D QUIETLY GONE BACK TO MY HOTEL ROOM WH ONLY A GLASS OF WARM K AND THE GION’S BIBLE FOR PANY.”FOLLOWG LAST YEAR’S BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY—WHICH DOWNPLAYED FREDDIE MERCURY’S NOTORLY PROLIFIC SEX LIFE—ROCKETMAN’S UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE SCENE BETWEEN ELTON JOHN AND HIS FIRST BOYIEND, JOHN REID (RICHARD MADN), LIGHTED CANN FILM FTIVAL DIENCE MEMBERS. AND EVEN THOUGH JOHN AND REID END UP HAVG A NASTY, PUBLIC FALLG-OUT—MORE ON THAT LATER—JOHN HIMSELF WAS THRILLED TO SEE HIS FIRST MAJOR SEXUAL ENUNTER, AT THE AGE OF 23, RE-CREATED ONSCREEN.“I WAS A VIRG UNTIL THEN,” JOHN HAS EXPLAED OF THE 1970 ENUNTER WH REID, WHO WOULD BEE HIS MANAGER. “I WAS SPERATE TO BE LOVED AND SPERATE TO HAVE A TACTILE THEY TEAR THEIR CLOTH OFF THE MOVIE, THAT WAS HOW HAPPENED. IT WAS SAN FRANCIS.... I’M SO GLAD ’S THERE, BEE I AM A GAY MAN AND I DIDN’T WANT TO AIRBSH UNR THE RPET. THIS IS WHO I AM, AND I WAS SO JOYO. WHEN HE IS LYG MY ARMS AND I’M STG BACK WH A SE, I’M THKG, ‘AH, I’M NORMAL, I’VE HAD SEX’.... THAT NIGHT WAS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT PART.”TOM DOYLE, WHO WROTE THE BOOK CAPTA FANTASTIC, ABOUT JOHN’S REER THROUGH THE ’70S, FURTHER EXPLAED: “IT TOOK REID TO NFIRM ELTON’S SEXUAL PROCLIVI. RETURNG OM A HIGHLY SIGNIFINT NIGHT WH THE ST SAN FRANCIS, HE ADMTED TO [MIC PRODUCER] STEVE BROWN, ‘I’M FELY GAY’.... IT WAS WHOLLY LIBERATG FOR ELTON, AT THE RELATIVELY LATE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE, TO FALLY ACCEPT THE TE NATURE OF HIS SEXUALY. BRAVELY, HE DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO KEEP HIDN OM THOSE CLOST TO HIM.”IN REAL LIFE, THE CHEMISTRY HAD NOT BEEN AS IMMEDIATE FOR JOHN AND REID—A STTISH MIC WUNRKD WHO HAD FIRST N TO JOHN, ACRDG TO DOYLE, AT EMI’S LONDON OFFICE, WHERE JOHN WAS “CHEEKILY SCROUNG[G] EE VYL PI OF THE LATT RELEAS.” REID LATER TOLD THE STTISH DAILY MAIL ABOUT HIS FIRST IMPRSN OF JOHN: “I REMEMBER THIS HIP, SHY YOUNG MAN,” HE RELLED. “THERE WAS A GAWKY SWEETNS ABOUT HIM.”AFTER THE SAN FRANCIS TRIP, JOHN AND REID MOVED TO A FLAT LONDON TOGETHER. “HE WAS MY FIRST GREAT LOVE, AND I WAS HIS,” REID SAID. JOHN’S PRODUCER G DUDGEON EXPLAED TO VH1’S BEHD THE MIC THAT THE TWO WERE “ MANY WAYS THE PERFECT [WERE] VERY UP FOR SPENDG MONEY, PARTYG, HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”REID HAD SIGNED ON TO BE JOHN’S MANAGER, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ADMTEDLY EXPERIENCED THAT AREA OF THE DTRY. ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN’S BOSS AT DJM SAW THE PERK OF THE ARRANGEMENT: “WHO ELSE N WE RELY ON TO GET ELTON OUT OF BED THE MORNG THAN THE GUY HE’S BED WH?” REID WAS NFINT AND HAD KILLER STCTS, HOWEVER: THE FOLLOWG YEAR, HE LNCHED HIS OWN MANAGEMENT PANY, AND WENT ON TO NEGOTIATE UNPRECENTED ALS FOR JOHN. (LATER, THE MANAGER WOULD REPORTEDLY LAMENT HOW EXCSIVE THEY WERE—WONRG WHETHER HE HELPED MAKE THE MIC DTRY “MORE VULGAR.”)BUT BOY, DID JOHN AND REID KNOW HOW TO SPEND MONEY. ACRDG TO A 1974 ROLLG STONE VER STORY, JOHN BOUGHT REID AN APPALOOSA RACEHORSE AND A POWERBOAT FOR HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY. FOR JOHN’S BIRTHDAY, REID SAID HE RECIPROTED BY WALKG TO A PARIS JEWELER AND PICKG OUT THE LARGT EMERALD RG HE ULD FD—ALLEGEDLY WORTH A LN ANCS.GIVEN THAT JOHN AND REID WERE SEPARABLE AND LIVG TOGETHER, THERE WAS PUBLIC SPECULATN ABOUT THE NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP. BUT WHEN JOHN WAS ASKED POT-BLANK BY ROLLG STONE 1974, HE CLAIMED REID WAS “JT MY MANAGER.... I HAVE A CLOSE CIRCLE OF IENDS WHO JT AREN’T THE PUBLIC—SORT OF LIKE ELVIS AND HIS...MOTORBIKE PEOPLE. THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHO FIRST GAVE BERNIE [TP] AND ME ENURAGEMENT. IT’S VERY MUCH A FAY. THAT’S WHY ’S SO CTUO SOMETIM.”REID WAS FIERCELY LOYAL TO JOHN, BUT ALSO A B OF A HOTHEAD—WH ROLLG STONE VOTG A PARAGRAPH TO REID’S HISTORY OF VLENT ANTICS: “HE TOSSED A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AT A MAN FOR NOT HAVG ENOUGH LIQUOR AT A RECEPTN FOR ELTON; SLAPPED A WOMAN JOURNALIST WHO SLD HIM AND REPORTEDLY LLED HIM A ‘POOF’ (MEANG A GAY); AND HE BEAT AND KICKED ANOTHER JOURNALIST WHOM HE SAID HE HEARD HAD THREATENED ELTON.” HE WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO A MONTH PRISON 1974 FOR ASSLTG A JOURNALIST NEW ZEALAND.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISJOHN AND REID’S ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP FIZZLED OUT 1975—WH BOTH MEN CLAIMG THE RELATNSHIP END FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. ACRDG TO REID, JOHN “NEVER HAD A SEXUAL ADOLCENCE. HE NEED TO GO OFF AND PLAY THE FIELD.” BUT ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN SAID THAT REID HAD BEEN “MORE UNFAHFUL THAN I LIKED.”THEIR WORKG RELATNSHIP NTUED UNTIL 1998—THE SAME YEAR THAT JOHN’S DORS DISVERED A £20 LN GAP HIS ACUNTS, AND SHORTLY BEFORE JOHN SUED BOTH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND ANDREW HAYDON, THE FORMER MANAGG DIRECTOR OF JOHN REID ENTERPRIS. SPEAKG ABOUT HIS EX, JOHN SAID, “I TSTED HIM...I NEVER THOUGHT HE WOULD BETRAY ME, BUT HE HAS BETRAYED ME.” WHILE REID SETTLED WH JOHN OUT OF URT, A HIGH-URT HEARG EXAMED JOHN’S EXCSIVE SPENDG OVER THE YEARS—WH A JUDGE ULTIMATELY SIDG WH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND HAYDON.“SIR ELTON’S DIFFERENCE TO THE TAILS OF FANCIAL AND BS MATTERS WAS FOR A LONG TIME POUND BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD SER PROBLEMS WH ALHOL AND DG ABE,” THE JUDGE TERMED, ACRDG TO THE GUARDIAN. DURG THE LEAD-UP TO THE JUDGMENT, THE URT HEARD HOW JOHN SPENT NEARLY £40 LN DURG A 20-MONTH PERD, AND £293,000 ON FLOWERS ALONE. REID ALLEGED, MEANWHILE, THAT LIVG WH JOHN WAS LIKE “TRYG TO HOLD BACK A VAST LEAPS STYLE WERE EXHSTG. HE WOULD GO OUT ONE DAY WH BROWN HAIR AND RETURN THE NEXT WH PK. ONE DAY HE DROVE OFF HIS ESRT, AND I SAID WASN’T VERY ROCK AND ROLL. HE RETURNED THAT AFTERNOON WH A PURPLE ASTON MART.” (IN ROCKETMAN, SHOPPG IS THE ONE ADDICTN JOHN PS TO HAVG NOT OVERE.)RICHARD MADN HAS SAID THAT, WHILE PREPARG TO PLAY REID, HE REACHED OUT TO VAR IENDS OF THE NOW-RETIRED MANAGER—CLUDG DONATELLA VERSACE. (MADN TOLD ELLE THAT THE SIGNER TOLD HIM, “THE THG ABOUT JOHN REID WAS THAT HE WAS NEVER WRONG.”) BUT REID, WHO IS REPORTEDLY LIVG ATRALIA UNR THE RADAR THE DAYS, REMAS SOMETHG OF AN ENIGMA TO MADN.SPEAKG TO THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, MADN EXPLAED: “EVERYONE HAS A VERY DIFFERENT TAKE AND A VERY DIFFERENT STORY ABOUT HIM.... YOU’VE GOT SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF HIM, BEE HE’S THIS MAN WHO LOV TO FIRE PEOPLE AND THERE’S THIS FORCE, AND THEN OTHER PEOPLE SAYG HE IS THE MOST FUN PERSON YOU ULD POSSIBLY GET, AND IF YOU GET A NIGHT OUT WH JOHN REID, YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE THE BT TIME.” THE NTRADICTORY REPORTS, MADN EXPLAED, “GAVE ME LIBERTY TO PLAY LOTS OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF HIM. THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE LOVE BEG AROUND, BUT ALSO THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF; I GOT TO PLAY WH THE SPECTM OF THAT BEE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT ANECDOT I GOT.”IN AN INTERVIEW NVERSATN WH JOHN, MADN SAID, “THERE’S LOTS ABOUT JOHN REID THAT’S NOT VERY LIKABLE. IT WAS REALLY FUN TO PLAY WH THAT AND BE A CUNT SOMETIM.” JOHN ADD, OF THE TASK OF PORTRAYG HIS EX: “YOU HAVE TO BE BOTH TENR AND A BASTARD.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIN SPE OF THE RELATNSHIP’S UPS AND DOWNS, REID HAS SEEMED REMORSEFUL ABOUT S CLIMACTIC FAL ACT. “IT’S VERY SAD THAT THE LONG RELATNSHIP I HAD WH ELTON HAS END THIS WAY,” REID TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2001, SHORTLY AFTER THE URT LG. “I FEEL THAT THE QUTN MARK THAT HAS BEEN HANGG OVER MY TEGRY FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN REMOVED, AND THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG TO ME THIS SE. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO TRIAL. IT WAS ILL ADVISED.” IN THE YEARS SCE, REID APPEARED BRIEFLY AS A JUDGE ON THE X FACTOR ATRALIA, AND TOLD IENDS OF A PLAN TO WRE A MEMOIR. SEVERAL YEARS BACK, ACRDG TO THE STTISH DAILY MAIL, REID EVEN MA MENTS SUGGTG HE MIGHT BE OPEN TO A RENCILIATN WH JOHN. “I’M FOND OF ELTON, AND PROUD OF THE WORK I DID WH HIM,” HE SAID. “ONE DAY I’LL BUMP TO HIM AND THERE MAY BE HUGS AND KISS. OR MAYBE NOT.”JULIE MILLER
- ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S FOTTEN 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL“SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE,” JOHN HAS SAID OF THE SHORT-LIVED MARRIAGE. “I WAS LIVG A LIE.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019FEBARY 14 1984 : ELTON JOHN AND RENATE BLEL AT ST. MARK’S CHURCH.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVE“IT WAS VALENTE’S DAY, AND ELTON JOHN WAS MAKG ONE LAST ATTEMPT AT BEG HETEROSEXUAL,” WROTE THE DAILY ATRALIAN, REFLECTG ON THE MICIAN’S 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL. THE NUPTIALS, WHICH ARE BRIEFLY RECREATED THE MIL BPIC ROCKETMAN, ME AS A SHOCK TO MOST OF THE WORLD; BY THAT POT JOHN’S MEGAWATT REER, THE MICIAN HAD SHARED A FIVE-YEAR ROMANCE WH HIS MANAGER JOHN REID AND REVEALED HE WAS BISEXUAL A 1976 TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE. BUT HE HAD ALSO EXPLAED, “I’D RATHER FALL LOVE WH A WOMAN EVENTUALLY BEE I THK A WOMAN PROBABLY LASTS MUCH LONGER THAN A MAN.”JOHN HAD MET BLEL, A GERMAN-BORN SOUND ENGEER, WHILE WORKG ON HIS TOO LOW FOR ZERO ALBUM. AFTER KNOWG EACH OTHER ABOUT 18 MONTHS, JOHN PROPOSED OVER CURRY AT AN INDIAN RTRANT SYDNEY, AND THE UPLE MARRIED THE FOLLOWG WEEK—AT A CHURCH THE NEARBY SUBURB OF DARLG POT. “I SIMPLY WANT TO BE A FAY MAN,” JOHN EXPLAED AT THE TIME. “AND I’M NOT GETTG ANY YOUNGER.” JOHN AND BLEL MANAGED TO PULL TOGETHER AN EXTRAVAGANT AFFAIR A MATTER OF DAYS, THANKS TO JOHN’S TOUR PROMOTER AT THE TIME, HARLEY MEDLF.“OYSTERS WERE FLOWN OM NEW ZEALAND,” MEDLF TOLD PAGE SIX OF THE LAST-MUTE PREPARATNS AND NT MENU, WHICH CLUD LOBSTER, PRAWNS, SLLOPS, SALMON, AND A 1978 LE MONTRACHET CHATE S HEBEX JACQU PRIR. BLEL WORE A GOWN WH A HEART-SHAPED PENDANT NTAG 63 DIAMONDS—A GIFT OM HER GROOM—SEWN TO THE BODICE. JOHN, MEANWHILE, WORE A LAVENR SILK SHIRT AND WHE AT.“HE’S THE NICT GUY I’VE EVER MET,” BLEL WAS QUOTED AS SAYG, AHEAD OF THE WEDDG, BY THE UNED PRS INTERNATNAL. “I’VE HEARD ALL SORTS OF STORI ABOUT ELTON AND THAT HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE BISEXUAL, BUT THAT DON'T WORRY ME.” GUTS REPORTEDLY CLUD OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND JOHN MCENROE, WHILE JOHN’S MANAGER AND EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID SERVED AS BT MAN.ELTON JOHN’S EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID (CENTER) ACTG AS A GROOMSMAN AT JOHN’S 1984 WEDDG.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.THE MARRIAGE ONLY LASTED FOUR YEARS, AND WHEN THE UPLE ANNOUNCED THEIR DIVORCE, PEOPLE REPORTED THAT BLEL AND ELTON “GENUELY TEND TO REMA BT OF IENDS.” CONTRARY TO THE UPLE’S HOPE, HOWEVER, JOHN NFSED THE 1997 DOCUMENTARY TANTMS AND TIARAS THAT THEY HAD REMAED ANYTHG BUT. “I HOPE ONE DAY THAT WE N MEET AND BE IENDS,” HE SAID. “WE HAVEN’T BEEN TOUCH, WE’VE HAD NO NTACT AT ALL WHICH IS VERY SAD, BUT SHE WANTS THAT WAY. I DON’T HAVE ANY NEGATIVE THGS TO SAY ABOUT HER AT ALL."IN A 1992 TERVIEW WH THE LOS ANGEL TIM, JOHN ATTRIBUTED THE MARRIAGE TO HIS ALHOL AND DG ADDICTN: ”EVEN THOUGH I KNEW I WAS GAY, I THOUGHT THIS WOMAN WAS ATTRACTIVE AND THAT BEG MARRIED WOULD CURE ME OF EVERYTHG WRONG MY LIFE. . YOU TAKE THAT AMOUNT [OF DGS AND ALHOL], YOU N’T HAVE ANY RELATNSHIP.” IN A 1996 TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORKER, HE RELLED ONCE GUZZLG EIGHT VODKA MARTIS 30 MUT, BLACKG OUT, AND AWAKG TO BE TOLD HE HAD GOTTEN TO A FIST FIGHT WH JOHN REID. HE WAS ALSO EP TO E ADDICTN—EVENTUALLY BUILDG UP A HAB THAT, AT S WORST, SAW HIM REPORTEDLY TAKG EVERY FOUR MUT. OF HIS CISN TO MARRY BLEL, JOHN TOLD THE NEW YORKER, “WHEN YOU TAKE A LOT OF DGS, AND YOU’RE OUT TO LUNCH HALF THE TIME. . . YOU THK A CHANGE OF SCENERY, I’LL GET ANOTHER HOE, I’LL MOVE TO ANOTHER UNTRY.”IN A 2007 TERVIEW WH THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, JOHN FURTHER EXPLAED, “A DG ADDICT THKS LIKE THIS: ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH BOYIENDS AND THAT’S NOT MA ME HAPPY, SO I’LL HAVE A WIFE; THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHG.’ AND I LOVED RENATE. SHE’S A GREAT GIRL. I REALLY, REALLY LOVED HER. BUT, YOU KNOW. IT IS ONE OF THE THGS I REGRET MOST MY LIFE, HURTG HER.” HE ALSO SHARED THAT HE AND BLEL HAD, AT LONG LAST, RNED.“WE LGHED AND WE CRIED,” JOHN SAID. “WE’RE ADULTS. BUT I DO REGRET [HAVG HURT HER].” HE ALSO SAID, “SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE. I WAS LIVG A LIE.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIN 2017, WHILE PERFORMG A SERI OF NCERTS ATRALIA FOR HIS ONCE A LIFETIME TOUR, JOHN SHARED A NDID INSTAGRAM POST RELLG HIS DOOMED FIRST WEDDG.“I’M SO EXCED TO BE BACK ATRALIA FOR A SERI OF SHOWS,” JOHN WROTE, ALONGSI A PHOTO OM HIS 2014 WEDDG TO DAVID FURNISH. “MANY YEARS AGO, I CHOSE ATRALIA FOR MY WEDDG TO A WONRFUL WOMAN FOR WHOM I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE AND ADMIRATN. I WANTED MORE THAN ANYTHG TO BE A GOOD HBAND, BUT I NIED WHO I REALLY WAS, WHICH ED MY WIFE SADNS, AND ED ME HUGE GUILT AND REGRET,” JOHN NTUED, JOG ATRALIA’S BATE ABOUT MARRIAGE EQUALY.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“TO BE WORTHY OF SOMEONE’S LOVE, YOU HAVE TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH AND CLEAR EYED ENOUGH TO BE HONT WH YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTNER,” JOHN NTUED. “ALMOST 24 YEARS AGO, I MET THE PERSON WH WHOM I ULD BE FULLY MYSELF. WHEN WE MARRIED 2014, FELT LIKE THAT FACT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE WORLD. FOR DAVID AND I, BEG ABLE TO OPENLY LOVE AND M TO ONE ANOTHER, AND FOR THAT TO BE REGNIZED AND CELEBRATED IS WHAT MAK LIFE TLY WORTH LIVG. THAT ACCEPTANCE AND SUPPORT MAK WANT TO BE AS KD, RPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, AS WELL AS THE BT PARENTS, THAT WE N BE. I LOVE ATRALIA. I LOVE S SPIR, S LACK OF PRETENSE, S PASSN. I HOPE N EMBRACE THE HONTY AND URAGE THAT SEEKS GAY MARRIAGE AS AN EXPRSN NOT OF SIRE BUT OF LOVE.”JULIE MILLER
HOMOSEXUAL GOP RAD HOST ASSS REPUBLIN SUG ANOTHER REPUBLIN FOR CALLG HIM A "GAY DEMOCRAT"
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"Half my life I'm around liberal, pro-gay people who n't believe that they're talkg to a nservative Republin, " Reid says. "And then the other half, I'm around very nservative people, some of whom never thought that they would engage wh an openly gay guy.
ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN
* was john reid gay *
As gay, as a Republin. It wasn't Reid's orientatn as gay that surprised him, Crosby says: "The revelatn for me was when he went to work for Gee Allen. Reid rells a blog that aimed to out gay Republins workg on Capol Hill and their boss as hypocr.
FOTTEN SGER EMERG OM SERT AS 'GAY '70S IN'
"But if you see me at a gay bar you n ask me a qutn, " he said, "bee I'm a very iendly guy.
ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S REAL-LIFE ROLLER-COASTER RELATNSHIP WH JOHN REIDTARON EGERTON AND RICHARD MADN PORTRAY JOHN AND REID’S STEAMY ’70S ROMANCE—THE FIRST RELATNSHIP ELTON JOHN HAD WH A MAN.BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019ELTON JOHN KISSG HIS MANAGER JOHN REID ON CHEEK, 1979.BY RICHARD YOUNG/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEELTON JOHN WOULD NOT SACRIFICE SEX FOR A PG-13 RATG—NOT LIFE, AND NOT ROCKETMAN, THE MIL BPIC STARRG TARON EGERTON. “EVERYONE KNOWS I HAD QUE A LOT OF [SEX AND DGS] DURG THE ’70S AND ’80S,” JOHN EXPLAED THE GUARDIAN THIS MONTH. “SO THERE DIDN’T SEEM TO BE MUCH POT MAKG A MOVIE THAT IMPLIED THAT AFTER EVERY GIG, I’D QUIETLY GONE BACK TO MY HOTEL ROOM WH ONLY A GLASS OF WARM K AND THE GION’S BIBLE FOR PANY.”FOLLOWG LAST YEAR’S BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY—WHICH DOWNPLAYED FREDDIE MERCURY’S NOTORLY PROLIFIC SEX LIFE—ROCKETMAN’S UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE SCENE BETWEEN ELTON JOHN AND HIS FIRST BOYIEND, JOHN REID (RICHARD MADN), LIGHTED CANN FILM FTIVAL DIENCE MEMBERS. AND EVEN THOUGH JOHN AND REID END UP HAVG A NASTY, PUBLIC FALLG-OUT—MORE ON THAT LATER—JOHN HIMSELF WAS THRILLED TO SEE HIS FIRST MAJOR SEXUAL ENUNTER, AT THE AGE OF 23, RE-CREATED ONSCREEN.“I WAS A VIRG UNTIL THEN,” JOHN HAS EXPLAED OF THE 1970 ENUNTER WH REID, WHO WOULD BEE HIS MANAGER. “I WAS SPERATE TO BE LOVED AND SPERATE TO HAVE A TACTILE THEY TEAR THEIR CLOTH OFF THE MOVIE, THAT WAS HOW HAPPENED. IT WAS SAN FRANCIS.... I’M SO GLAD ’S THERE, BEE I AM A GAY MAN AND I DIDN’T WANT TO AIRBSH UNR THE RPET. THIS IS WHO I AM, AND I WAS SO JOYO. WHEN HE IS LYG MY ARMS AND I’M STG BACK WH A SE, I’M THKG, ‘AH, I’M NORMAL, I’VE HAD SEX’.... THAT NIGHT WAS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT PART.”TOM DOYLE, WHO WROTE THE BOOK CAPTA FANTASTIC, ABOUT JOHN’S REER THROUGH THE ’70S, FURTHER EXPLAED: “IT TOOK REID TO NFIRM ELTON’S SEXUAL PROCLIVI. RETURNG OM A HIGHLY SIGNIFINT NIGHT WH THE ST SAN FRANCIS, HE ADMTED TO [MIC PRODUCER] STEVE BROWN, ‘I’M FELY GAY’.... IT WAS WHOLLY LIBERATG FOR ELTON, AT THE RELATIVELY LATE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE, TO FALLY ACCEPT THE TE NATURE OF HIS SEXUALY. BRAVELY, HE DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO KEEP HIDN OM THOSE CLOST TO HIM.”IN REAL LIFE, THE CHEMISTRY HAD NOT BEEN AS IMMEDIATE FOR JOHN AND REID—A STTISH MIC WUNRKD WHO HAD FIRST N TO JOHN, ACRDG TO DOYLE, AT EMI’S LONDON OFFICE, WHERE JOHN WAS “CHEEKILY SCROUNG[G] EE VYL PI OF THE LATT RELEAS.” REID LATER TOLD THE STTISH DAILY MAIL ABOUT HIS FIRST IMPRSN OF JOHN: “I REMEMBER THIS HIP, SHY YOUNG MAN,” HE RELLED. “THERE WAS A GAWKY SWEETNS ABOUT HIM.”AFTER THE SAN FRANCIS TRIP, JOHN AND REID MOVED TO A FLAT LONDON TOGETHER. “HE WAS MY FIRST GREAT LOVE, AND I WAS HIS,” REID SAID. JOHN’S PRODUCER G DUDGEON EXPLAED TO VH1’S BEHD THE MIC THAT THE TWO WERE “ MANY WAYS THE PERFECT [WERE] VERY UP FOR SPENDG MONEY, PARTYG, HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”REID HAD SIGNED ON TO BE JOHN’S MANAGER, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ADMTEDLY EXPERIENCED THAT AREA OF THE DTRY. ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN’S BOSS AT DJM SAW THE PERK OF THE ARRANGEMENT: “WHO ELSE N WE RELY ON TO GET ELTON OUT OF BED THE MORNG THAN THE GUY HE’S BED WH?” REID WAS NFINT AND HAD KILLER STCTS, HOWEVER: THE FOLLOWG YEAR, HE LNCHED HIS OWN MANAGEMENT PANY, AND WENT ON TO NEGOTIATE UNPRECENTED ALS FOR JOHN. (LATER, THE MANAGER WOULD REPORTEDLY LAMENT HOW EXCSIVE THEY WERE—WONRG WHETHER HE HELPED MAKE THE MIC DTRY “MORE VULGAR.”)BUT BOY, DID JOHN AND REID KNOW HOW TO SPEND MONEY. ACRDG TO A 1974 ROLLG STONE VER STORY, JOHN BOUGHT REID AN APPALOOSA RACEHORSE AND A POWERBOAT FOR HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY. FOR JOHN’S BIRTHDAY, REID SAID HE RECIPROTED BY WALKG TO A PARIS JEWELER AND PICKG OUT THE LARGT EMERALD RG HE ULD FD—ALLEGEDLY WORTH A LN ANCS.GIVEN THAT JOHN AND REID WERE SEPARABLE AND LIVG TOGETHER, THERE WAS PUBLIC SPECULATN ABOUT THE NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP. BUT WHEN JOHN WAS ASKED POT-BLANK BY ROLLG STONE 1974, HE CLAIMED REID WAS “JT MY MANAGER.... I HAVE A CLOSE CIRCLE OF IENDS WHO JT AREN’T THE PUBLIC—SORT OF LIKE ELVIS AND HIS...MOTORBIKE PEOPLE. THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHO FIRST GAVE BERNIE [TP] AND ME ENURAGEMENT. IT’S VERY MUCH A FAY. THAT’S WHY ’S SO CTUO SOMETIM.”REID WAS FIERCELY LOYAL TO JOHN, BUT ALSO A B OF A HOTHEAD—WH ROLLG STONE VOTG A PARAGRAPH TO REID’S HISTORY OF VLENT ANTICS: “HE TOSSED A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AT A MAN FOR NOT HAVG ENOUGH LIQUOR AT A RECEPTN FOR ELTON; SLAPPED A WOMAN JOURNALIST WHO SLD HIM AND REPORTEDLY LLED HIM A ‘POOF’ (MEANG A GAY); AND HE BEAT AND KICKED ANOTHER JOURNALIST WHOM HE SAID HE HEARD HAD THREATENED ELTON.” HE WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO A MONTH PRISON 1974 FOR ASSLTG A JOURNALIST NEW ZEALAND.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISJOHN AND REID’S ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP FIZZLED OUT 1975—WH BOTH MEN CLAIMG THE RELATNSHIP END FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. ACRDG TO REID, JOHN “NEVER HAD A SEXUAL ADOLCENCE. HE NEED TO GO OFF AND PLAY THE FIELD.” BUT ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN SAID THAT REID HAD BEEN “MORE UNFAHFUL THAN I LIKED.”THEIR WORKG RELATNSHIP NTUED UNTIL 1998—THE SAME YEAR THAT JOHN’S DORS DISVERED A £20 LN GAP HIS ACUNTS, AND SHORTLY BEFORE JOHN SUED BOTH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND ANDREW HAYDON, THE FORMER MANAGG DIRECTOR OF JOHN REID ENTERPRIS. SPEAKG ABOUT HIS EX, JOHN SAID, “I TSTED HIM...I NEVER THOUGHT HE WOULD BETRAY ME, BUT HE HAS BETRAYED ME.” WHILE REID SETTLED WH JOHN OUT OF URT, A HIGH-URT HEARG EXAMED JOHN’S EXCSIVE SPENDG OVER THE YEARS—WH A JUDGE ULTIMATELY SIDG WH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND HAYDON.“SIR ELTON’S DIFFERENCE TO THE TAILS OF FANCIAL AND BS MATTERS WAS FOR A LONG TIME POUND BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD SER PROBLEMS WH ALHOL AND DG ABE,” THE JUDGE TERMED, ACRDG TO THE GUARDIAN. DURG THE LEAD-UP TO THE JUDGMENT, THE URT HEARD HOW JOHN SPENT NEARLY £40 LN DURG A 20-MONTH PERD, AND £293,000 ON FLOWERS ALONE. REID ALLEGED, MEANWHILE, THAT LIVG WH JOHN WAS LIKE “TRYG TO HOLD BACK A VAST LEAPS STYLE WERE EXHSTG. HE WOULD GO OUT ONE DAY WH BROWN HAIR AND RETURN THE NEXT WH PK. ONE DAY HE DROVE OFF HIS ESRT, AND I SAID WASN’T VERY ROCK AND ROLL. HE RETURNED THAT AFTERNOON WH A PURPLE ASTON MART.” (IN ROCKETMAN, SHOPPG IS THE ONE ADDICTN JOHN PS TO HAVG NOT OVERE.)RICHARD MADN HAS SAID THAT, WHILE PREPARG TO PLAY REID, HE REACHED OUT TO VAR IENDS OF THE NOW-RETIRED MANAGER—CLUDG DONATELLA VERSACE. (MADN TOLD ELLE THAT THE SIGNER TOLD HIM, “THE THG ABOUT JOHN REID WAS THAT HE WAS NEVER WRONG.”) BUT REID, WHO IS REPORTEDLY LIVG ATRALIA UNR THE RADAR THE DAYS, REMAS SOMETHG OF AN ENIGMA TO MADN.SPEAKG TO THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, MADN EXPLAED: “EVERYONE HAS A VERY DIFFERENT TAKE AND A VERY DIFFERENT STORY ABOUT HIM.... YOU’VE GOT SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF HIM, BEE HE’S THIS MAN WHO LOV TO FIRE PEOPLE AND THERE’S THIS FORCE, AND THEN OTHER PEOPLE SAYG HE IS THE MOST FUN PERSON YOU ULD POSSIBLY GET, AND IF YOU GET A NIGHT OUT WH JOHN REID, YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE THE BT TIME.” THE NTRADICTORY REPORTS, MADN EXPLAED, “GAVE ME LIBERTY TO PLAY LOTS OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF HIM. THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE LOVE BEG AROUND, BUT ALSO THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF; I GOT TO PLAY WH THE SPECTM OF THAT BEE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT ANECDOT I GOT.”IN AN INTERVIEW NVERSATN WH JOHN, MADN SAID, “THERE’S LOTS ABOUT JOHN REID THAT’S NOT VERY LIKABLE. IT WAS REALLY FUN TO PLAY WH THAT AND BE A CUNT SOMETIM.” JOHN ADD, OF THE TASK OF PORTRAYG HIS EX: “YOU HAVE TO BE BOTH TENR AND A BASTARD.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIN SPE OF THE RELATNSHIP’S UPS AND DOWNS, REID HAS SEEMED REMORSEFUL ABOUT S CLIMACTIC FAL ACT. “IT’S VERY SAD THAT THE LONG RELATNSHIP I HAD WH ELTON HAS END THIS WAY,” REID TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2001, SHORTLY AFTER THE URT LG. “I FEEL THAT THE QUTN MARK THAT HAS BEEN HANGG OVER MY TEGRY FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN REMOVED, AND THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG TO ME THIS SE. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO TRIAL. IT WAS ILL ADVISED.” IN THE YEARS SCE, REID APPEARED BRIEFLY AS A JUDGE ON THE X FACTOR ATRALIA, AND TOLD IENDS OF A PLAN TO WRE A MEMOIR. SEVERAL YEARS BACK, ACRDG TO THE STTISH DAILY MAIL, REID EVEN MA MENTS SUGGTG HE MIGHT BE OPEN TO A RENCILIATN WH JOHN. “I’M FOND OF ELTON, AND PROUD OF THE WORK I DID WH HIM,” HE SAID. “ONE DAY I’LL BUMP TO HIM AND THERE MAY BE HUGS AND KISS. OR MAYBE NOT.”JULIE MILLER
Reid grew up a workg-class suburb of Glasgow, and, at the age of 18, moved to London, claimg he was "tired of beg the only gay the village. " His reer the mic bs started at a UK Motown label that worked wh The Suprem, Marv Gaye, Stevie Wonr, and The Temptatns. At a dner meetg wh Freddie Mercury 1975, Reid told the ontman he was gay.
He’s clearly NOT gay so why even try dirty tricks and slurs? Pl the Republin Party simply mt grow out of this reflexive disda for “gays.
ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S FOTTEN 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL“SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE,” JOHN HAS SAID OF THE SHORT-LIVED MARRIAGE. “I WAS LIVG A LIE.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019FEBARY 14 1984 : ELTON JOHN AND RENATE BLEL AT ST. MARK’S CHURCH.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVE“IT WAS VALENTE’S DAY, AND ELTON JOHN WAS MAKG ONE LAST ATTEMPT AT BEG HETEROSEXUAL,” WROTE THE DAILY ATRALIAN, REFLECTG ON THE MICIAN’S 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL. THE NUPTIALS, WHICH ARE BRIEFLY RECREATED THE MIL BPIC ROCKETMAN, ME AS A SHOCK TO MOST OF THE WORLD; BY THAT POT JOHN’S MEGAWATT REER, THE MICIAN HAD SHARED A FIVE-YEAR ROMANCE WH HIS MANAGER JOHN REID AND REVEALED HE WAS BISEXUAL A 1976 TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE. BUT HE HAD ALSO EXPLAED, “I’D RATHER FALL LOVE WH A WOMAN EVENTUALLY BEE I THK A WOMAN PROBABLY LASTS MUCH LONGER THAN A MAN.”JOHN HAD MET BLEL, A GERMAN-BORN SOUND ENGEER, WHILE WORKG ON HIS TOO LOW FOR ZERO ALBUM. AFTER KNOWG EACH OTHER ABOUT 18 MONTHS, JOHN PROPOSED OVER CURRY AT AN INDIAN RTRANT SYDNEY, AND THE UPLE MARRIED THE FOLLOWG WEEK—AT A CHURCH THE NEARBY SUBURB OF DARLG POT. “I SIMPLY WANT TO BE A FAY MAN,” JOHN EXPLAED AT THE TIME. “AND I’M NOT GETTG ANY YOUNGER.” JOHN AND BLEL MANAGED TO PULL TOGETHER AN EXTRAVAGANT AFFAIR A MATTER OF DAYS, THANKS TO JOHN’S TOUR PROMOTER AT THE TIME, HARLEY MEDLF.“OYSTERS WERE FLOWN OM NEW ZEALAND,” MEDLF TOLD PAGE SIX OF THE LAST-MUTE PREPARATNS AND NT MENU, WHICH CLUD LOBSTER, PRAWNS, SLLOPS, SALMON, AND A 1978 LE MONTRACHET CHATE S HEBEX JACQU PRIR. BLEL WORE A GOWN WH A HEART-SHAPED PENDANT NTAG 63 DIAMONDS—A GIFT OM HER GROOM—SEWN TO THE BODICE. JOHN, MEANWHILE, WORE A LAVENR SILK SHIRT AND WHE AT.“HE’S THE NICT GUY I’VE EVER MET,” BLEL WAS QUOTED AS SAYG, AHEAD OF THE WEDDG, BY THE UNED PRS INTERNATNAL. “I’VE HEARD ALL SORTS OF STORI ABOUT ELTON AND THAT HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE BISEXUAL, BUT THAT DON'T WORRY ME.” GUTS REPORTEDLY CLUD OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND JOHN MCENROE, WHILE JOHN’S MANAGER AND EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID SERVED AS BT MAN.ELTON JOHN’S EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID (CENTER) ACTG AS A GROOMSMAN AT JOHN’S 1984 WEDDG.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.THE MARRIAGE ONLY LASTED FOUR YEARS, AND WHEN THE UPLE ANNOUNCED THEIR DIVORCE, PEOPLE REPORTED THAT BLEL AND ELTON “GENUELY TEND TO REMA BT OF IENDS.” CONTRARY TO THE UPLE’S HOPE, HOWEVER, JOHN NFSED THE 1997 DOCUMENTARY TANTMS AND TIARAS THAT THEY HAD REMAED ANYTHG BUT. “I HOPE ONE DAY THAT WE N MEET AND BE IENDS,” HE SAID. “WE HAVEN’T BEEN TOUCH, WE’VE HAD NO NTACT AT ALL WHICH IS VERY SAD, BUT SHE WANTS THAT WAY. I DON’T HAVE ANY NEGATIVE THGS TO SAY ABOUT HER AT ALL."IN A 1992 TERVIEW WH THE LOS ANGEL TIM, JOHN ATTRIBUTED THE MARRIAGE TO HIS ALHOL AND DG ADDICTN: ”EVEN THOUGH I KNEW I WAS GAY, I THOUGHT THIS WOMAN WAS ATTRACTIVE AND THAT BEG MARRIED WOULD CURE ME OF EVERYTHG WRONG MY LIFE. . YOU TAKE THAT AMOUNT [OF DGS AND ALHOL], YOU N’T HAVE ANY RELATNSHIP.” IN A 1996 TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORKER, HE RELLED ONCE GUZZLG EIGHT VODKA MARTIS 30 MUT, BLACKG OUT, AND AWAKG TO BE TOLD HE HAD GOTTEN TO A FIST FIGHT WH JOHN REID. HE WAS ALSO EP TO E ADDICTN—EVENTUALLY BUILDG UP A HAB THAT, AT S WORST, SAW HIM REPORTEDLY TAKG EVERY FOUR MUT. OF HIS CISN TO MARRY BLEL, JOHN TOLD THE NEW YORKER, “WHEN YOU TAKE A LOT OF DGS, AND YOU’RE OUT TO LUNCH HALF THE TIME. . . YOU THK A CHANGE OF SCENERY, I’LL GET ANOTHER HOE, I’LL MOVE TO ANOTHER UNTRY.”IN A 2007 TERVIEW WH THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, JOHN FURTHER EXPLAED, “A DG ADDICT THKS LIKE THIS: ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH BOYIENDS AND THAT’S NOT MA ME HAPPY, SO I’LL HAVE A WIFE; THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHG.’ AND I LOVED RENATE. SHE’S A GREAT GIRL. I REALLY, REALLY LOVED HER. BUT, YOU KNOW. IT IS ONE OF THE THGS I REGRET MOST MY LIFE, HURTG HER.” HE ALSO SHARED THAT HE AND BLEL HAD, AT LONG LAST, RNED.“WE LGHED AND WE CRIED,” JOHN SAID. “WE’RE ADULTS. BUT I DO REGRET [HAVG HURT HER].” HE ALSO SAID, “SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE. I WAS LIVG A LIE.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIN 2017, WHILE PERFORMG A SERI OF NCERTS ATRALIA FOR HIS ONCE A LIFETIME TOUR, JOHN SHARED A NDID INSTAGRAM POST RELLG HIS DOOMED FIRST WEDDG.“I’M SO EXCED TO BE BACK ATRALIA FOR A SERI OF SHOWS,” JOHN WROTE, ALONGSI A PHOTO OM HIS 2014 WEDDG TO DAVID FURNISH. “MANY YEARS AGO, I CHOSE ATRALIA FOR MY WEDDG TO A WONRFUL WOMAN FOR WHOM I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE AND ADMIRATN. I WANTED MORE THAN ANYTHG TO BE A GOOD HBAND, BUT I NIED WHO I REALLY WAS, WHICH ED MY WIFE SADNS, AND ED ME HUGE GUILT AND REGRET,” JOHN NTUED, JOG ATRALIA’S BATE ABOUT MARRIAGE EQUALY.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“TO BE WORTHY OF SOMEONE’S LOVE, YOU HAVE TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH AND CLEAR EYED ENOUGH TO BE HONT WH YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTNER,” JOHN NTUED. “ALMOST 24 YEARS AGO, I MET THE PERSON WH WHOM I ULD BE FULLY MYSELF. WHEN WE MARRIED 2014, FELT LIKE THAT FACT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE WORLD. FOR DAVID AND I, BEG ABLE TO OPENLY LOVE AND M TO ONE ANOTHER, AND FOR THAT TO BE REGNIZED AND CELEBRATED IS WHAT MAK LIFE TLY WORTH LIVG. THAT ACCEPTANCE AND SUPPORT MAK WANT TO BE AS KD, RPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, AS WELL AS THE BT PARENTS, THAT WE N BE. I LOVE ATRALIA. I LOVE S SPIR, S LACK OF PRETENSE, S PASSN. I HOPE N EMBRACE THE HONTY AND URAGE THAT SEEKS GAY MARRIAGE AS AN EXPRSN NOT OF SIRE BUT OF LOVE.”JULIE MILLER
”Like every other group there are people of character who are gay and there are v whack jobs who are are very thoughtful and moral people who are gay and people who are pletely hedonistic and ivolo too. It’s one reason the rabid gay left hated him and wanted to stroy him- they uldn’t have a GOP Print who wouldn’t play that anti-gay rd. The gay muny has always been their own worst enemy.
Anyone faiar wh gog to a gay bar, you never know what you're gog to see.