Out artist Jake Wesley Rogers has released his EP, single and music video Pluto. I'm getting some Jobriath vibes from this artist who will be opening for Ben Platt on his 2022 arena tour.
He's a buzzed-about newcomer, with a slew of rave reviews and celebrity endorsements, including from Elton John — who said Rogers reminds him of himself when he was starting out. Heady stuff.
Rogers will perform on The Late Late Show with James Corden tomorrow, Tuesday.
ABOVE: Next year will be the 100th anniversary of Bea Arthur's birth. And hopefully next year, in January, we will be celebrating Betty White's 100th birthday.
The author also stresses that Trump’s prejudices mirrored his parents’. Both Trump and his father were sued by Richard Nixon’s justice department, for housing discrimination. Mary Trump also contends that Fred Sr regarded “Jew” as a verb and was “scandalized” when “the first Italian American family moved into the neighborhood.” Trump’s mother, she writes, derided Elton John as a “little faggot”. The author was in a same-sex relationship at the time.
In context, Trump's mother was venting regarding the 1999 funeral of Princess Diana, and reportedly said:
It’s a disgrace they’re letting that little faggot Elton John sing at the service.
In a WaPo interview, Mary Trump asserted that slurs were commonplace in the Trump family:
Growing up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the N-word or use anti-Semitic expressions. Homophobia was never an issue because nobody ever talked about gay people ...
Apparently, the first time she heard gay people referenced was when Trump's mother, a total nothing, derided Elton John, a total something.
Mary Trump has also affirmed to Rachel Maddow that Donald's prejudices led him to use anti-Semitic slurs and the N-word:
Her response is so matter-of-fact it shows how obvious the question is — it's almost like the question is ridiculous. And with no criticism intended toward Maddow, it is a ridiculous question in 2020; Donald Trump has been a lifelong apologetic racist and white supremacist. This should have been obvious from the Year One.
