Gloria Estefan: ‘We Need To Stand Up Against’ Don’t Say Gay Laws
metroweekly.comRed Table Talk: The Estefans.“That was hairy, because Emily was very raw at that moment,” says Estefan. “And we didn’t discuss it beforehand, because we wanted it to be natural.
I wish that the whole two-hour conversation could have been aired…. There were a lot of important things that were said there that I wish would have come out.
No pun intended.”Not even a thirty-second excerpt from the edited episode would pass muster in schools in the Estefans’ home state of Florida, with the recent passage into law of what became known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.“It’s so ridiculous, it’s so terrible,” Estefan says. “They may not say that — ‘Don’t say gay’ — in the actual wording [of the law], but it’s implied.
If you can’t discuss same-sex relationships before third grade — do you know how many kids have same-sex parents? You’re telling them that that’s lesser than, or that they should keep quiet about it.
