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Showing Original Post only (View all)Whitney "took to drugs and drinks because she was hiding her true sexuality" [View all]
If true, this is heartbreaking. Hopefully one day we'll live in a society where people are free to be themselves:
Some of Whitney Houstons friends, including gay rights activist Peter Tatchell have said that the singer took to drugs and drinks because she was hiding her true sexuality.
Tatchell even insisted her marriage to Bobby Brown was a smokescreen, and that she was only really happy in the 1980s when she was with a lesbian partner. Even her former husband has hinted their marriage was a cover-up for her desire for women.
Whitney was happiest and at her peak in the 1980s when she was with her female partner, Tatchell said.
They were so loved up and joyful together. Perhaps her inability to accept and express her same-sex love contributed to her substance abuse and decline, he added.
Tatchell even insisted her marriage to Bobby Brown was a smokescreen, and that she was only really happy in the 1980s when she was with a lesbian partner. Even her former husband has hinted their marriage was a cover-up for her desire for women.
Whitney was happiest and at her peak in the 1980s when she was with her female partner, Tatchell said.
They were so loved up and joyful together. Perhaps her inability to accept and express her same-sex love contributed to her substance abuse and decline, he added.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/Whitney-Houston-was-secret-lesbian-Friend/Article1-811817.aspx
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Whitney "took to drugs and drinks because she was hiding her true sexuality" [View all]
apples and oranges
Feb 2012
OP
It's a fool's errand to keep up with the cherry picking that goes on from one Xian sect to another.
stopbush
Feb 2012
#19
She was scheduled to do an anti-bullying ad aimed at racial minorietys, gay youth the day she died
FreeState
Feb 2012
#30
It's probably the other way around...she loved booze and drugs more than she loved anyone else.
dkf
Feb 2012
#12
Since Donnie McClurkin was invited to be the first singer and TD Jakes was invited to eulogize her
ruggerson
Feb 2012
#46
What's tacky is that someone who has no right to do so, is speaking for her. She
sabrina 1
Feb 2012
#39
You sound like you think it's an insult to discuss whether a public figure was gay
ruggerson
Feb 2012
#42
I agree with everyone in this thread who has called this "tacky". Mr. Tachell should get a life &
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2012
#65
It really is sad, because they can't defend their name against rumors and baseless charges.
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2012
#74
i hope she wasn't because i think living and dying without being able to be really out
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2012
#71