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PATTI LABELLE: LUTHER VANDROSS DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY BEE OF HIS MOM
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When Vandross was alive, there was speculatn that he was gay. Luther Vandross was gay, although he never ‘me out’ while he was alive.
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WAS LUTHER VANDROSS GAY?
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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. And then sger Patti LaBelle, who nsired herself a iend of Vandross, nfirmed 2017 that he was ed gay but held back who he was bee of his reer.
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.