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BRANDI CARLILE TALKS NEW MEMOIR, LGBTQ PARENTG AND HER 'GAY PEN-PAL FATHER FIGURE' ELTON JOHN
He first reached out 2007 to say he's a fan, and soon beme her "gay pen-pal father figure, " Carlile wr her new memoir "Broken Hors. She scrib g out as gay at age 15 – prompted by Ellen DeGener' historic g-out episo of "Ellen" 1997 – and the tolerance she faced as a rult. Brandi Carlile may be a "sad gay, " as she shared durg a speech at a Human Rights Campaign gala -- but she also remas hopeful a time when LGBTQ+ rights are unr lbian sger, while acceptg HRC's Visibily Award Saturday at the LGBTQ+ group's Los Angel dner, shared a story of marriage to her wife, Cathere Shepherd, to illtrate the power of joy the face of stutnal Carlile first performed at an HRC event the early 2000s, she sang the melancholic "Hallelujah" after her state, Washgton, had failed to pass a marriage equaly iative.
Carlile noted how this story ronat a time when an unprecented amount of anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn has appeared state legislatur -- notably, Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would prohib tn of sexual orientatn and genr inty schools to young children, as well as polil asslts on trans youth Texas. Yet Carlile is unmistakably a 21st-century figure: a gay married mother of two dghters who bypassed the untry-mic tablishment to reach her own fervent the begng — Carlile released her but album, “Brandi Carlile, ” 2005 — her gifts have been obv. Executive produced by Mark Ronson, the soundtrack clus origal songs om Lizzo, Nicki Maj and Ice Spice, Charli XCX, Haim, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Sam Smh, Gayle, PkPanthers and more artists.
“I jt knew there was somethg there that nobody had really heard yet, ” says Carlile, who rells beg troduced to Clark by a mutual iend who’d realized she had “two gay Brandys her phone.