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89 posts categorized "ELTON JOHN"
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Mary Trump, Donald Trump's niece whose Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man sold a record-breaking 950,000 copies its first day, recalls in the book how hearing Trump's mom utter a gay slur helped her decide not to come out as a lesbian to her family.
Via The Guardian:
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.
Buy the book. And vote.
Are you one of us? Or one of Them? (Graphic via Them)
Tonight, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, Them hosts Out Now Live, a virtual celebration of Pride's history that will benefit the Ali Forney Center in NYC. It's a great cause, one that gives hands-on, measurable help to homeless LGBTQ youth.
The celebration features such luminaries as Elton John, Indya Moore, Hayley Kiyoko, Shangela and more. Full list:
Adam Lambert, Alok Vaid-Menon, Antoni Porowski, Ashlee Marie Preston, Ashlyn Harris & Ali Krieger, Billy Eichner, Bob the Drag Queen, Bretman Rock, Cara Delevingne, Carly Rae Jepsen, Cynthia Nixon, Elton John & David Furnish, Evan Rachel Wood, Guillermo Díaz, Hayley Kiyoko, Holland, Ianne Fields Stewart, Indya Moore, Jason Bolden, Jazz Jennings, Jordan Roth, Josie Totah, Judith Light, Julio Torres, Lea DeLaria, Michael Kors, Naomi Campbell, Nyle DiMarco, Pabllo Vittar, Pedro Julio Serrano, Raven-Symoné, Shangela, Stacy London, Tituss Burgess, Tommy Dorfman, Victor Garber & Rainer Andreesen, Whoopi Goldberg, Wilson Cruz, Zac Posen and Zachary Quinto
Watch below ...
Apr
29
2020
We know Furnish's favorite John. (Image via video still)
Duke's Download corrals David Furnish for a lively session ...
Mar
26
2020
ABOVE: More like that, here.
Feb
18
2020
ABOVE: Summer, hurry up.
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