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
Contents:
- GLORIA ESTEFAN OFFERED TO 'CARRY' GAY FLAG AT PRI FOR DGHTER EY BEFORE SHE CAME OUT
- IN CONVERSATN: GLORIA ESTEFAN ON HER STGGL WH HER GAY DGHTER
- GLORIA ESTEFAN TALKS VERY GAY YEAR: LGBTQ IN HAS A QUEER MOVIE, AWARD AND NOW DGHTER
- GLORIA ESTEFAN ON WHY SHE DIDN’T WANT GAY DGHTER EY TO E OUT TO HER MOTHER: ‘LIFE IS PLITED’
- GLORIA ESTEFAN EXPLAS WHY SHE WAS “RELUCTANT” FOR HER DGHTER TO COME OUT TO HER GRANDMOTHER"IN THE LAT MUNY, A LOT OF THE SUBJECTS AREN'T TOUCHED, THEY'RE TABOO," THE SGER SAID.BY EY KIRKPATRICKNOVEMBER 30, 2022FACEBOOKXEMAILSAVE STORYBY PL ARCHULETA/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEGLORIA ESTEFAN HAS BEEN EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE OF HER DGHTER EY ESTEFAN G OUT AS GAY, BUT WAS HANT ABOUT SHARG THAT NEWS WH HER OWN MOTHER, GLORIA FAJARDO, PRR TO HER ATH.THE LAT POP STAR EXPLAED DURG A NEW S-DOWN TERVIEW WH CNN'S CHRIS WALLACE THAT SHE THOUGHT EY OPENG UP ABOUT HER SEXUALY TO THE OLR GENERATNS OF THEIR FAY WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO “PLITED” FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. “IN THE LAT MUNY, A LOT OF THE SUBJECTS AREN'T TOUCHED, THEY'RE TABOO,” SHE SAID. “PEOPLE SEE—BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT , THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE .” ESTEFAN NTUED, “EY, I THOUGHT, WOULD FEEL FORTABLE G OUT TO ME.”DURG A PREV EPISO OF RED TABLE TALK: THE ESTEFANS, THE SGER ALSO REVEALED THAT SHE WAS WAS “RELUCTANT TO HAVE HER E OUT TO HER GRANDMOTHER” BEFORE HER ATH. “WE'VE BEEN VERY, VERY OPEN ABOUT THE SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY OUR ENTIRE LIV AND AT THE SAME TIME, I HAD A MOTHER WH ULCERATIVE LIS THAT EVEN IF I BROUGHT UP A BILL—OR SOMETHG THAT WAS NOT EVEN IMPORTANT—WOULD GET VERY UPSET. WE'RE ALL JT FAI TRYG TO GET THROUGH THE DIFFICULT MOMENTS LIFE,” THE MICIAN NTUED. “LIFE IS PLITED, LIFE IS TOUGH.” FAJARDO DIED 2017 AT AGE 88.THE ESTEFANS' FACEBOOK WATCH SHOW IS A SP-OFF OF RED TABLE TALK, PRODUCED BY JADA PKETT SMH AND WTBROOK STUDS, AND ALSO FEATUR THREE GENERATNS OF WOMEN THEIR FAY NVERSATN WH ESTEFAN DISCSG IMPORTANT ISSU WH HER DGHTER AND HER 55-YEAR-OLD NIECE, LILI ESTEFAN. AHEAD OF THE PREMIERE OF THE PROGRAM 2020, THE GRAMMY WNER TOLD PEOPLE THAT SHE WAS THRILLED TO EMBARK ON THIS NEW ENAVOR. “IT'S THREE GENERATNS OF WOMEN WH OUR OWN POTS OF VIEW WHICH MAY SURPRISE PEOPLE WHO THK THEY KNOW WHAT WE WILL SAY,” SHE SAID. “THE GIRLS AND I WILL TALK ABOUT EVERYTHG OM MOTHERHOOD TO SPIRUALY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND SEXUALY. MY DGHTER EY ME OUT LAST YEAR, SO I THK THIS IS A GOOD TOPIC FOR FAI TO HEAR BEE SEX IS A SUBJECT THEY DON'T LIKE TO DISCS.”AND FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY 2020, EY SHARED A TRIBUTE TO HER PARTNER GEMENY HERNANZ ON INSTAGRAM, POSTG A PICTURE OF THE TWO OF THEM HUGGG. SHE WROTE THE PTN, “BE YOU. BE KD. BE BETTER. BE OPEN, BE REFUL IF YOU FEEL UNSAFE, BE LOVE. ANYTHG ELSE IS LOVE DAY... BEE THAT SHOULD BE EVERY. SGLE. DAY.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: IMPEACH BIN NOW OR I'LL SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENTBY ERIC LUTZJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANEY KIRKPATRICK
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. 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.
IN CONVERSATN: GLORIA ESTEFAN ON HER STGGL WH HER GAY DGHTER
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?
GLORIA ESTEFAN TALKS VERY GAY YEAR: LGBTQ IN HAS A QUEER MOVIE, AWARD AND NOW DGHTER
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.
GLORIA ESTEFAN ON WHY SHE DIDN’T WANT GAY DGHTER EY TO E OUT TO HER MOTHER: ‘LIFE IS PLITED’
Fajardo (her “alter ego, ” as she origally studied psychology at the Universy of Miami and planned to be a doctor), the therapist who advis Jim Belhi’s bigoted, Fox News-watchg dad character, Hank, as he to terms wh the foolish possibily that his new heart om a recent transplant is, as Gloria puts , “pumpg gayns to him. But they did exprs, as always, their passn for equaly, wh Gloria acknowledgg – bee she is officially Global Mother to the Gays now – “I jt felt natural the role.
Regardg Estefan Enterpris, which pris their entertament pany, rtrants, hotels and a beach rort, E says, “(Whether) you’re Lato or gay – you have to see somebody based on the kd of work they’re gonna do, and I thk that’s happeng now.
GLORIA ESTEFAN EXPLAS WHY SHE WAS “RELUCTANT” FOR HER DGHTER TO COME OUT TO HER GRANDMOTHER"IN THE LAT MUNY, A LOT OF THE SUBJECTS AREN'T TOUCHED, THEY'RE TABOO," THE SGER SAID.BY EY KIRKPATRICKNOVEMBER 30, 2022FACEBOOKXEMAILSAVE STORYBY PL ARCHULETA/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEGLORIA ESTEFAN HAS BEEN EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE OF HER DGHTER EY ESTEFAN G OUT AS GAY, BUT WAS HANT ABOUT SHARG THAT NEWS WH HER OWN MOTHER, GLORIA FAJARDO, PRR TO HER ATH.THE LAT POP STAR EXPLAED DURG A NEW S-DOWN TERVIEW WH CNN'S CHRIS WALLACE THAT SHE THOUGHT EY OPENG UP ABOUT HER SEXUALY TO THE OLR GENERATNS OF THEIR FAY WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO “PLITED” FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. “IN THE LAT MUNY, A LOT OF THE SUBJECTS AREN'T TOUCHED, THEY'RE TABOO,” SHE SAID. “PEOPLE SEE—BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT , THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE .” ESTEFAN NTUED, “EY, I THOUGHT, WOULD FEEL FORTABLE G OUT TO ME.”DURG A PREV EPISO OF RED TABLE TALK: THE ESTEFANS, THE SGER ALSO REVEALED THAT SHE WAS WAS “RELUCTANT TO HAVE HER E OUT TO HER GRANDMOTHER” BEFORE HER ATH. “WE'VE BEEN VERY, VERY OPEN ABOUT THE SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY OUR ENTIRE LIV AND AT THE SAME TIME, I HAD A MOTHER WH ULCERATIVE LIS THAT EVEN IF I BROUGHT UP A BILL—OR SOMETHG THAT WAS NOT EVEN IMPORTANT—WOULD GET VERY UPSET. WE'RE ALL JT FAI TRYG TO GET THROUGH THE DIFFICULT MOMENTS LIFE,” THE MICIAN NTUED. “LIFE IS PLITED, LIFE IS TOUGH.” FAJARDO DIED 2017 AT AGE 88.THE ESTEFANS' FACEBOOK WATCH SHOW IS A SP-OFF OF RED TABLE TALK, PRODUCED BY JADA PKETT SMH AND WTBROOK STUDS, AND ALSO FEATUR THREE GENERATNS OF WOMEN THEIR FAY NVERSATN WH ESTEFAN DISCSG IMPORTANT ISSU WH HER DGHTER AND HER 55-YEAR-OLD NIECE, LILI ESTEFAN. AHEAD OF THE PREMIERE OF THE PROGRAM 2020, THE GRAMMY WNER TOLD PEOPLE THAT SHE WAS THRILLED TO EMBARK ON THIS NEW ENAVOR. “IT'S THREE GENERATNS OF WOMEN WH OUR OWN POTS OF VIEW WHICH MAY SURPRISE PEOPLE WHO THK THEY KNOW WHAT WE WILL SAY,” SHE SAID. “THE GIRLS AND I WILL TALK ABOUT EVERYTHG OM MOTHERHOOD TO SPIRUALY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND SEXUALY. MY DGHTER EY ME OUT LAST YEAR, SO I THK THIS IS A GOOD TOPIC FOR FAI TO HEAR BEE SEX IS A SUBJECT THEY DON'T LIKE TO DISCS.”AND FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY 2020, EY SHARED A TRIBUTE TO HER PARTNER GEMENY HERNANZ ON INSTAGRAM, POSTG A PICTURE OF THE TWO OF THEM HUGGG. SHE WROTE THE PTN, “BE YOU. BE KD. BE BETTER. BE OPEN, BE REFUL IF YOU FEEL UNSAFE, BE LOVE. ANYTHG ELSE IS LOVE DAY... BEE THAT SHOULD BE EVERY. SGLE. DAY.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: IMPEACH BIN NOW OR I'LL SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENTBY ERIC LUTZJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANEY KIRKPATRICK
Gloria’s gay-aligned ventur don’t stop there: Given her 2017, the sger’s ntributn to the queer update of Netflix’s enarg reboot of “One Day at a Time” – the show’s theme song, advisg that you “keep dog what you do” – seems right step wh her gay-adjacent reer.
“The gay muny was one of the first muni that supported bee we were huge the clubs and the gay clubs, particularly, bee the gay muny is ually a ltle b ahead of trends and mil trends and fashn trends, ” she rells. Beat” and Conga, ” spun songs she produced wh E at a Puerto Rin gay club durg the onset of her reer wh the Miami Sound Mache, when she joed 1977 as the band’s ontwoman (talk about gay – the band was origally lled the Miami Lat Boys). Gloria scrib Flor and the gay clubs who took them unr their wgs the ’80s as “cuttg edge and very supportive of and our mic the begng.
“(Gay people) tell me wonrful thgs, but not jt bee they happen to be gay, but bee they were gog through tough thgs their liv and my mic spired them to ph forward or to stay posive a suatn, ” Gloria reflects, passnately. “My fans – I have a lot of gay fans. I have very young kids on my Twter – young gay kids who for some reason my mic speaks to them.