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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.