Gloria Estefan Talks Very Gay Year: LGBTQ In Has a Queer Movie, Award and Now Dghter - Pri Source

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 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.

IN CONVERSATN: GLORIA ESTEFAN ON HER STGGL WH HER GAY DGHTER

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. 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. 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.

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

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’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.