As a gay man, Furnish recalled his personal struggles coming out at a time when the stigma aroundHIV/AIDSwas high. "It was terrifying because initially there wasn't even a test to find out whether you had AIDS or not. Gay men were just dying these very horr...
John said Wednesday that he visitedRussia in Decemberconcerned that the new law would affect how he was treated as “an openly gay foreigner.” He says he received a warm welcome. Russian President Praises Elton John, Rules Out Discrimination of Gay Athletes at Sochi But if foreign visitors ar...
(At that time, John said he was bisexual; he later came out as gay.) But after talking with Furnish, who wanted to focus on the farewell tour, he found that the two periods spoke to each other. “Elton’s coming out not only changed his life and sent him on a path t...
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” Elton John Elton John is an artist who has earned his status as a music legend over the last half century and who has worked just as hard to mentor young artists and give others the opp...
Long John Baldry showed me things that were extraordinary for a kid of my age. Such as? Subterranean gay clubs. You have to remember that back in the ’60s,it was still an offenseHomosexual acts between men (but not women) were still illegal in the ’60s in England, and though they ...
" and that John's attacks on the company are "fascist...We have always lived our sexuality in private. We’ve never raised our voices. Now they are putting words that are not ours into our mouths, saying we’re against gay adoptions. Not true. Domenico simply expressed his opinio...
Fletcher’s film is less squeamish about Elton’s love life—including sex—than a big-budget biopic about a gay star would have been years ago—or, rather, as recent aslast year. Elton has an intense and predictably doomed romance with callous music manager John Reid (Richard Madden), but...
“He was wearing a kaftan, I had on a brightly coloured jacket and they said we were over-dressed. ‘Whaddaya think this is? Fuckin’ Halloween?'” John recalls. The Real Story Behind His Coming Out Elton John famously came out as “bisexual” in a 1976 interview withRolling Stone.As ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Elton John was on tour in America in the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye. She was an over-the-top, heavy makeup-wearing performer who wore her heart on her sleeve and yet seemed in on the joke — televangelist ...
When Elton John was on tour in America during the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye.