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In reply to the discussion: Whitney "took to drugs and drinks because she was hiding her true sexuality" [View all]onpatrol98
(1,989 posts)It's tacky regardless. I know absolutely nothing about Whitney Houston's religious environment. I also don't know how she liked her coffee or the name of her 3rd grade teacher. For all I know, her particular church environment might not have been as rigid as you suggest. Perhaps you're a member of her church and know of her interactions with the people in her church. After all, Peter is certainly convinced he knows her even better than she knew herself, since she said she isn't gay.
If it's true, that she's gay. It'll simply be true that she's gay and that she didn't think it was our business. Perhaps she assumed (apparently mistakenly) that she could do what she wanted to do in her own bedroom.
We don't need to call a dead singer gay to give the world a wake up call. You want to issue a wake up call. Talk to live people who want to talk. The only wake up call this would provide is to issue a chilling effect to a celebrity who actually might be gay and wondering how to come out. To my mind, attempting to drag a dead singer out of closet (a closet possibly in the mind of Tachell for publicity sake) borders on ridiculous. We're the choice people, supposedly. People have the right to come out of the closet. Stay in the closet. Or, decide at which time they would like to exit...IF they want to exit. I can't see how this benefits that struggle.
And, no doubt, if she had her preference. She'd much rather her family have the support of her church than Peter Tachell. Now, I'd be willing to bet on that one.