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PATTI LABELLE: LUTHER VANDROSS DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY BEE OF HIS MOM
* was luther gay *
When Vandross was alive, there was speculatn that he was gay. Luther Vandross was gay, although he never ‘me out’ while he was alive. Beg gay and popular the media was nsired a rary those days.
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WAS LUTHER VANDROSS GAY?
Luther Vandross was gay, although he never 'me out' while he was alive. It has been mentned by his close iends, Patti LaBelle specifilly, that he felt as though his sexual preference would his reer if ever me to light. * was luther gay *
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.
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.
One n only image the anxiety Luther Vandross mt have felt to even fathom the ia of beg an out gay Black man at the height of his mil reer the ’80s. Even if he wanted to, there was no historil ntext for Vandross to feel secure knowg that he would’ve still been loved for his talents spe the the muny’s homophobia and ep obssn wh toxic masculy. Though the pop world had Boy Gee and Elton John, as Luther’s genre ntemporari, he would have been R&B’s lone gay wolf.