Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Shawn Mendes honours late friend’s memory with new song Heart of Gold

Shawn Mendes has released 'Heart of Gold' in tribute to a late childhood friend. The Canadian pop star has...

Latest Posts

Julian Casablancas hates The Strokes hit Last Nite

Julian Casablancas says The Strokes hit 'Last Nite' is "pretty dead to me". The 46-year-old musician has expressed his...

BLACKPINK’s Rosé has a ‘disgustingly vulnerable’ song in debut solo record

BLACKPINK star Rosé has included a "disgustingly vulnerable" track on her debut solo album 'Rosie'. The 27-year-old singer has...

Peter Hook and New Order pay tribute to Quincy Jones

Peter Hook and New Order have paid tribute to former collaborator Quincy Jones for "making us big in America".

Liam Gallagher ‘blown away’ by music Noel Gallagher has written for possible new Oasis record

Liam Gallagher has been "blown away" by music his brother Noel Gallagher has written for a possible new Oasis album.

Dustin Lance Black: My mother was supportive of my sexuality

Dustin Lance Black says his late mother Anne Bisch was supportive when he came out as gay.
The 45-year-old screenwriter – who is married to Olympic diver Tom Daley, with whom he has 13-month-old son Robert – was brought up in a strict Mormon household, and feared coming out as gay because he thought his mother would think it was "wrong".
But after he came out in his senior year of college, he couldn’t believe his mother wanted to fly out to Los Angeles to meet his other gay friends, as she wanted to "find out for herself" what they were like.
Speaking to Jason Mohammad on BBC Radio 2 on Sunday (04.08.19), he said: "Though she’d been told her entire life that we were sick and wrong and going to hell, and still illegal in many parts of the country, she wanted to find out for herself."
Dustin added that his mother’s courage proved how supportive she was, and said her willingness to listen to his friends meant that "many of those misconceptions were dispelled".
The director and producer went on to have good relationship with his mother before her passing, and says the experience brought them closer together.
Elsewhere in the interview, Dustin also explained how his mother was the inspiration behind his new book, ‘Mama’s Boy’, which was released in April this year.
Talking about the book – which is a deeply personal memoir that explores his relationship with his mother – Dustin explained: "Really this is her book, I’m a supporting character in this thing. This is about a woman who was very conservative and from a very republican part of the United States."
Dustin’s mother was paralysed from the waist down from polio when she was two-years-old, but miraculously defied doctors’ predictions that she’d never walk, work, marry, or have children.
She eventually learnt to walk with the aid of crutches, married three times, raised three sons mostly by herself and ran a lab at a military base.
Dustin recalled how he and his siblings "raised her in many ways as much as she was raising us."
Of his mother, Dustin explained: "I thought there was purpose in sharing that strength. I’ve always marvelled at how she used that courage and strength not just for herself, but she used that courage and strength too when she found out I was gay, instead of just rejecting me or throwing me out of the home like too many still do."
Dustin’s book, ‘Mama’s Boy’ is out now.

Latest Posts

Julian Casablancas hates The Strokes hit Last Nite

Julian Casablancas says The Strokes hit 'Last Nite' is "pretty dead to me". The 46-year-old musician has expressed his...

BLACKPINK’s Rosé has a ‘disgustingly vulnerable’ song in debut solo record

BLACKPINK star Rosé has included a "disgustingly vulnerable" track on her debut solo album 'Rosie'. The 27-year-old singer has...

Peter Hook and New Order pay tribute to Quincy Jones

Peter Hook and New Order have paid tribute to former collaborator Quincy Jones for "making us big in America".

Liam Gallagher ‘blown away’ by music Noel Gallagher has written for possible new Oasis record

Liam Gallagher has been "blown away" by music his brother Noel Gallagher has written for a possible new Oasis album.

Don't Miss

Pet Shop Boys set for special performance with orchestra at MTV EMAs

Pet Shop Boys are set for a special performance with the Manchester Camerata at the MTV EMAs 2024. The...

Kylie Minogue used to find The Loco-Motion ‘so uncool’

Kylie Minogue used to find performing 'The Loco-Motion' "so uncool". The 56-year-old pop idol has her 1988 cover of...

Cast’s John Power predicts Oasis reunion tour will eclipse Knebworth

Cast's John Power hopes the Oasis reunion tour will be talked about for years to come like the Britpop legends' iconic Knebworth...

Matty Healy believes The 1975 were ‘hated’ for not being ‘heavy’

Matty Healy believes The 1975 were "hated" as they came through at a time when heavy "post-punk" music was popular.

Taylor Swift hails Sabrina Carpenter ‘the pop princess of our dreams’

Taylor Swift has hailed Sabrina Carpenter "as real as they come" after she used her one day off from touring for their...

Stay in touch

To be updated with all the latest news, offers and special announcements.