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Gloria Estefanis explaining why she didn’t want daughterEmily Estefanto come out as gay in front of her grandmother.
In a sit-down interview withCNN’s Chris Wallace, the queen of Latin pop said that revealing her sexuality to her elderly relative would have been “complicated” for a number of personal reasons.
“In the Latin community, a lot of these subjects aren’t touched, they’re taboo,” Estefan, 65, shared with Wallace. “People see — but they don’t want to talk about it, they don’t want to see it.”
“Emily, I thought,would feel comfortable coming out to me,” the Cuban superstar said of her musician daughter, 27, who revealed that Estefan was “reluctant to have her come out to her grandmother"before her death, in an episode ofRed Table Talk: The Estefans.
“We’ve been very very open about the support for the LGBTQ community our entire lives and at the same time, I had a mother with ulcerative colitis that even if I brought up a bill — or something that was not even important — would get very upset,” she added about Gloria Fajardo, whodied in 2017aged 88.
“We’re all just families trying to get through the difficult moments in life,” she continued. “Life is complicated, life is tough.”
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Ahead of the family’s series premiere back in 2020, Estefan — who has beenmarried to Emilio Estefan, Emily’s father, since 1975 — told PEOPLEhow excited she wasto collaborate with her daughter and her television host-model niece Lili Estefan, 55.
“The girls and I will talk about everything from motherhood to spirituality, social media and sexuality,” she added. “My daughter Emily came out last year, so I think this is a good topic for families to hear because sex is a subject they don’t like to discuss.”
For National Coming Out day in 2020, Emily shared anencouraging tributefor all of her fans.
“Be you. Be kind. Be better,” she wrote. “Be open, be careful if you feel unsafe, be LOVE. Anything else is icing … Happy love day… because that should be every. Single. Day.”
source: people.com
