Posted on 02/18/2010 10:14:38 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World' by Dotson Rader
In this week's issue of PARADE, Elton John talks to Dotson Rader about the transition from his raucous rock-star years to becoming a committed philanthropist. In the web exclusive below, the music legend opens up about the life-threatening downside of fame, his partner David Furnish and his take on Jesus.
Making early mistakes in love. "I'd always choose someone younger. I wanted to smother them with love. I'd take them around the world, try to educate them. One after another they got a Cartier watch, a Versace outfit, maybe a sports car. They didn't have jobs. They were reliant on me. I did this repeatedly. In six months they were bored and hated my guts because I'd taken their lives and self-worth away. I hadn't intended to."
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Love and drugs. "Just about every relationship I ever had was involved with drugs. It never works. But I always had to be with someone, good or bad, otherwise I didn't feel fulfilled. I'd lost the plot."
It's all or nothing when it comes to drugs. "For some people a gram of cocaine can last a month. Not me. I have to do the lot, and then I want more. At the end of the day, all it led to was heartache."
Why fame has lost its appeal. "Princess Diana, Gianni Versace, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, all dead. Two of them shot outside their houses. None of this would have happened if they hadn't been famous. Fame attracts lunatics. I never had a bodyguard, ever, until Gianni died. I don't like celebrity anymore."
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Remembering friends lost. "Every time I sing 'The Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes' onstage, I say that this is a song written about a time when people in America started getting AIDS and your president, Ronald Reagan, did nothing about it. I get boos. There's a lot of hate in the world."
His take on Christianity. "I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead."
He'll never stop helping. "I set up my foundation because I wanted to make amends for the years I was a drug addict. People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste."
Finding new relationships. "In 1993 I went back to my house in Windsor for a while. I wanted meet new people so I rang up a friend in London and said, 'Could you please rattle some new people together for dinner here Saturday?'"
An instant connection. "I was attracted to David immediately. He was very well dressed, very shy. The next night we had dinner. After it, we consummated our relationship. We fell in love very quickly."
Keeping the love alive. "Every Saturday for 16 years, we've sent each other a card, no matter where we are in the world, to say how much we love each other."
Communication is key. "We've never been jealous. We talk about the sexual side of things, things that normally would have frightened me before."
I hate that guy.....
“Hate” is the queers’ favorite word to intimidate those opposing their diseased agenda, into silence.
So he thinks Jesus was a crucified gay man and Reagan did nothing about AIDS. OK. Well, AIDS was just really coming into the mainstream say 1985/86 which means that Reagan had 2 years left of his presidency to really get a clamp on a crisis that STILL has not been resolved 25 years later?
Gotcha.
Saying Jesus was gay is only to justify your own misgivings.
Elton you are one warped and deluded fool.
Elton is not talking about treating his fellow man as a lover but as a pet.
This stuff about a “gay Jesus” is wishful thinking on Elton’s part. Not all singles are “gay” which should be obvious to him.
My biggest problem with perverts is that they hate everyone else for not being a pervert, and they smear what they can’t understand, goodness, like Jesus.
In “Parade” magazine, eh? Well, this will be an edifying read come Sunday. I’ll be sure to discuss it with Grandma and the kids.
“Hate” is a gay’s “racist.”
So then who is hateful? Anyone winning an argument with a homosexual.
Rock Hudson’s publicist was interviewed by Larry King. He spoke very highly of Reagan and said that Reagan was a friend to Hudson when he was dying.
Hey Elton, do you think Mohammed was Gay?
I cannot for the life of me understand how men are sexually attracted to other men. I just don’t get it.
so, because people disagree with his opinion on Reagan, they are hate filled? OK.
“In “Parade” magazine, eh? Well, this will be an edifying read come Sunday. I’ll be sure to discuss it with Grandma and the kids.”
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And if Norman Rockwell were still alive he could take a hiatus from the Saturday Evening Post, and paint a special cover for Parade of Pervton and his foof partner, engaged in that special activity that absolutely dominates their lives.
Traditional American culture is in a sick downward spiral.
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