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Gaga Godmother To Elton's Son?
Gaga Godmother To Elton's Son?
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In an interview with Canada's Maclean's
magazine, Elton John's husband David Furnish discusses gay rights up
north and his feelings about family shields while (more or less)
confirming that Lady Gaga is son Zachary's godmother.
"I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian," Furnish told the magazine
when asked if he felt support from his home country. "I know when
[Stephen Harper] was elected he talked about repealing gay
marriage--legislation that was already passed in Canada. When it went to
the House of Commons, more people voted to keep it than put it in in the
first place. That is a sign of society taking a step, walking into
unknown territory and realizing that this isn't going to be the
destruction of the moral fabric of our society. This isn't going to hurt
or kill anybody.
Furnish says he feels Canada is "more progressive and more accepting" than America "on all sorts of levels relating to same-sex couples and families," especially after an Arkansas grocery store recently placed a "family shield" over the Us Weekly cover that featured Furnish, John, and Zachary. "I was disappointed but not outraged," he says. "They put the shield up and two days later, they took it down. That is progress in its own right."
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When asked whether or not
reports were true that Lady Gaga had been named Zachary's godmother,
Furnish replied, "We haven't publicly confirmed that yet but your
sources are very good! I prefer not to comment on it because we are
going to make a statement about godparents later on."
Furnish
feels that Gaga is an excellent role model because "she's all about
inclusiveness and tolerance. She believes that you can be whoever you
want to be and that we don't have to live in a world of conformity and
that we can all [benefit] from individuality. That's the best message in
the world."
Read the full interview here.
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