Tag: Barry Manilow

He's happier now to be out In a new interview, Barry Manilow said it’s ‘wonderful’ to be publicly out, because for years he believed he couldn’t be. ‘I went through many, many years when I couldn’t do that,’ he told the Daily Mirror of being able to talk openly about his husband, Garry Kief. Manilow fell in love with Kief, who’s also his manager, in 1978 and the couple married in 2014. The legendary singer, however, did not come out publicly until...

"These strangers say the most beautiful things to me." Barry Manilow has paid tribute to his fans for their ongoing support since he publicly came out as gay. The legendary entertainer, who publicly acknowledged his sexuality for the first time in an interview with People earlier this month, choked up as he discussed his relationship with his fans on The Today Show on Thursday (April 20). 73-year-old Manilow, who married his partner of 40 years, Garry Kief, in 2014, was asked by...

The 73-year-old Grammy winner got his start performing in bathhouses alongside Bette Midler. Barry Manilow has opened up about his sexuality for the first time, three years after quietly marrying his longtime partner and manager Garry Kief. The Grammy Award-winning songwriter said he’d decided long ago to keep quiet about his sexuality because he didn’t want to disappoint his fans. Turns out, his fans’ adoration wasn’t so conditional. “I thought I would be disappointing them if they knew I was gay. So...