Sir Elton John Calls
For Boycott Of Dolce Gabbana After Gay Families Branded ‘Synthetic’
by Andre Walker15 Mar 2015
Sir Elton John has
called for a boycott of the designer clothing brand Dolce Gabbana after its
owners called children born through IVF “synthetic”. Openly gay business
partners Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had already attacked gay marriage but this week extended their
objection to the children of gay couples.
The Italians designers were once a couple themselves, they
ended their sexual relationship some time ago whilst continuing to work
together. They told
Panorama Magazine: “We oppose gay adoptions. The only family is the traditional
one. No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there
are things that should not be changed.”
Mr Dolce said procreation “must be an act of love”. He
continued “You are born to a mother and a father – or at least that’s how it
should be… I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented uterus,
semen chosen from a catalog.” Gabbana added: “The family is not a fad. In
it there is a supernatural sense of belonging.”
This led Sir Elton to post an angry message of his Instagram
account, defending the two children he has with his partner David Furnish. The
message read: “How dare you refer to my beautiful children as “synthetic”. And
shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF – a miracle
that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfil
their dream of having children. Your archaic thinking is out of step with the
times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever
again. #BoycottDolceGabbana”.
This is not the first time the designers have caused outrage
in the gay community. In 2006 Mr Gabbana said: “I am opposed to the idea of a
child growing up with two gay parents… A child needs a mother and a father. I
could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is
cruel to take a baby away from its mother.”
The boycott could do serious damage to the brand as Sir
Elton is a respected figure in the gay community.
Elton
John
Elton
John was a supporter for the 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and is the founder of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Note: Hillary Rodham
Clinton was the candidate for the 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, Melanne Verveer was her chief of staff, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, is a
director at the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and a founding chair for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and
Security.
Elton
John AIDS Foundation was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council at Ready for Hillary, and was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Common Cause, the People for
the American Way, the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, the International
Rescue Committee, and the Robin Hood
Foundation.
Melanne Verveer
was a field manager for Common Cause,
the EVP for the People for the American
Way, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
chief of staff, the ambassador-at-large for global women's issues at the U.S. Department of State, is a director
at the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, and an executive director for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.
Reg
Weaver is a director at the People
for the American Way, and was the president of the National Education Association.
John
I. Wilson was an executive director for the National Education Association, and is a director at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
Georgetown
Institute for Women, Peace and Security is an institute at Georgetown University.
Madeleine K.
Albright is a professor at Georgetown
University, and an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Tom
Brokaw is an overseer for the International
Rescue Committee, was a director at the Robin Hood Foundation, and the anchor for the NBC Nightly News.
Brian Williams
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, an anchor (suspended) for the NBC Nightly News, and Allison
Williams’s father.
Allison Williams
is Brian Williams’s daughter, and an
actor in Girls.
Girls (TV series)
Feminism
Girls has prompted debate about
its possible feminist politics. It has been praised for its portrayal of women and
female friendship, but criticized as classist, racist, transphobic[52] and
misguided. In an online review for Ms Magazine, Kerensa Cadenas argues,
"Despite its lack of a serious class and race consciousness, Girls does
address other feminist issues
currently in play, among them body image, abortion,
relationships within a social media age and street harassment. In another
series, these issues might be the focus of one episode (i.e. the abortion
episode of SATC), but in Girls they become everyday topics."[53] On the
other hand, Catherine Scott of The Independent asks, "What’s there to
celebrate for feminism when black, Hispanic or Asian women are totally written
out of a series that’s supposedly set in one of the most diverse cities on
earth? But also, what’s there to celebrate for feminism when a show depicts
four entirely self-interested young women and a lead character having the most
depressing, disempowered sexual relationships imaginable?"
Lena
Dunham is an actor in Girls, and
a friend of Audrey Gelman.
Audrey
Gelman is an actor in Girls, a friend
of Lena Dunham, the VP for SKDKnickerbocker, was an intern for Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the aide
for the 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
TransCanada
Corporation is a SKDKnickerbocker
client, and the proposed builder for the Keystone
XL pipeline.
Susan
E. Rice is a stockholder in the TransCanada
Corporation, the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a
friend of Madeleine K. Albright.
Madeleine K.
Albright is a friend of Susan E.
Rice, an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a professor at Georgetown
University.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Georgetown
Institute for Women, Peace and Security is an institute at Georgetown University.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is a founding chair for the Georgetown
Institute for Women, Peace and Security, a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, was the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, Melanne
Verveer was her chief of staff, Audrey
Gelman was her intern, and the candidate for the 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
Elton
John was a supporter for the 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and is the founder of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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