In the first of a two-part terview wh TODAY's Matt Ler, Elton John discsed why he waed to reveal to the public that he was gay. As turns out, John, who had been livg an openly gay liftyle among his fay and iends, didn't realize that actually g out was gog to be necsary."Nobody asked me," John relled of the years leadg up to the moment when he fally told a journ
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GAY RIGHTS ARE GOG BACKWARDS THE US, SAYS ELTON JOHN
Mic in Elton John talks to Variety's Marc Malk about how beg gay affected his life and reer. * elton john gay mafia *
Gay rights are gog backwards the US, where “disgraceful” laws are discrimatg agast LGBTQ+ people, Elton John has said. There’s a law now that, if you vis a doctor Florida, they n refe to treat you if you’re gay, which I fd jt unbelievable.
”John, who found the Elton John Aids Foundatn, which has raised more than $525m and by s own timatn saved 5 ln liv, exprsed his ep unhapps about the growg ti of homophobia, which he said extend to Bra.
“It’s a growg swell of anger and homophobia that’s around Ameri.
GAY MAFIA WATCH
We take a look at how Regald Dwight beme one of most famo openly gay micians of all time and how he impacts the LGBTQ muny to this day. " name="scriptn * elton john gay mafia *
“But I feel that the Phillip Schofield thg has been totally homophobic. Hollywood's Homosexual Mafia. Hollywood's "gay mafia" or "velvet mafia" or "lavenr mob" has long been the subject of gossip, wh ocsnal blips to the mastream prs.
Terms such as "Gay mafia" refer to a group of powerful homosexuals who exercise extraordary fluence the entertament dtry.
"Gay mafia" is not a term ed publicly or wh pole pany. To do so, acrdg to nventnal wisdom, is to engage homophobia or paranoia. You n read Mark Ebner's 1995 piece on the Hollywood Gay Mafia on page 44.
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The arts muny has long had a disproportnate number of homosexuals and Jews. More than half of the leadg power brokers Hollywood are Jewish, and about a third of the powerful are homosexual, cludg David Geffen, Ray Stark, Calv Kle, Aaron Spellg, Steve Tisch, Barry Diller and agent Sandy Gall. This creat an atmosphere nducive to phg "gay rights" and imil to "gay bashg.
To Diller, "the Asi were unwashg homophobic ffians...
To be blunt, the Asi regard Barry Diller and many of his young male executiv to be gay, and the Asi referred to gays as "poofters. A Current Affair planned to do a story claimg that homosexual Cary Grant was straight.