Barry is gay
Barry Manilow explains why he kept his sexuality a covert for decades
BBC Music Correspondent
Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow says he did not talk about his sexuality for years because it could have ended his career.
The celestial body, who came out publicly in 2017, told CNN's Chris Wallace that "the public was not ready for anybody to come out" as gay in the 1970s.
"Now organism gay is no big deal," he added. "Back in the 70s it would have killed a career."
The Brooklyn-born singer has been in a partnership with his manager Garry Kief for 39 years.
They married privately in 2014.
Asked by Wallace if he had felt pressured to hide who he was, Manilow said he "never mind about it".
He described his decision to come out in People magazine six years ago as "a non-event".
"I believe everybody knew that Garry and I were a couple all those years," he said.
At the time, he said his fans' response to the announcement had made it a "beautiful experience".
"I didn't grasp what was going to happen," he told Reuters, "but I should contain known better b
Barry Manilow explains why he waited decades to come out as gay
For Barry Manilow, coming out publicly as same-sex attracted was a “non-event.”
During a guest appearance on HBO’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, the 80-year-old Copacabana singer said he didn’t ponder it was significant to announce his sexuality during the earlier decades of his career.
Manilow came out in 2017, almost three years after he married his husband and manager Garry Kief in a confidential ceremony. The couple have been together for 45 years now, though they’ve kept much of their relationship away from the general eye.
When he came out to People magazine in 2017, Manilow — whose real name is Barry Pincus — worried he’d be “disappointing” some of his fans by revealing his sexuality. Instead, Manilow, who was 73 at the time, said the reaction from his fanbase was “beautiful.”
Despite his current feelings of nonchalance about his retain coming out, Manilow said announcing his sexuality as his career was booming would have been a bad idea.
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Barry Diller comes out as gay 50 years after billionaire began seeing Diane Von Furstenberg
Billionaire Barry Diller has come out as gay - but insists he enjoyed a packed sexual relationship with fashion designer wife Diane Von Furstenberg.
Diller, a renowned media exec who previously served as CEO for both Fox and Paramount, opened up about his homosexuality in a soul-baring article penned for New York magazine Tuesday.
The 83-year-old credited with creating the Fox channel wrote of Von Furstenberg: 'While there have been a good many men in my life, there has only ever been one woman.
'And she didn’t appear into my life until I was 33 years old.'
Diller and Von Furstenberg enjoyed a jewel-encrusted life after meeting in 1974, with the jet-setting pair splitting their time between ritzy New York, Connecticut, Los Angeles and Aspen.
They split during the first days of the disco era in the belated 1970s, with Von Furstenberg subsequently hooking up with actor Richard Gere, whose movie American Gigolo was being produced by Diller at the time.
Diller told of how he bought Von Furstenberg with 29 diamonds for her 29th birthday - and ended up giving them to her in a Band-Aid box.
Diane von Fürstenberg's Husband Barry Diller Comes Out as Gay
Diane von Fürstenberg's Husband Barry Diller Comes Out as Gay
Barry Diller is giving a small glimpse into his world.
Over 20 years after the businessman tied the knot with Diane von Fürstenbergfollowing a decadeslong romance, he mutual insight into their relationship while publicly coming out as gay.
“I’ve lived for decades reading about Diane and me: about us being best friends rather than lovers,” Barry explained in an excerpt from his memoir Who Knew published by New York Magazine May 6. “We weren’t just friends. We aren’t just friends. Plain and simple, it was an explosion of fire that kept up for years.”
“Yes, I also liked guys, but that was not a argue with my love for Diane,” he continued. “I can’t describe it to myself or to the world. It simply happened to both of us without motive or manipulation. In some cosmic way we were destined for each other.”
Reflecting on society’s current view on sexuality, he added, “sexual identities are much more fluid and natural, without all those rigidly defined lanes of the last century.”
Indeed, when Barry first met Diane—who shares kids