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Don't call me gay, says Italian designer Stefano Gabbana
ROME (AFP) - Italian architect Stefano Gabbana, one half of the fashion duo Dolce & Gabbana, said on Sunday (Dec 17) that he was fatigued of being labelled according to his sexuality.
"I don't want to be called gay, because I'm simply a man full stop," the year-old said in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera daily.
"The word 'gay' was invented by those who demand to label people, and I don't want to be identified by my sexual choices," he said.
Gabbana launched the luxury fashion label in with his partner Domenico Dolce, and although the couple separated in , they endure to work together.
"I idea that I could support spread a new customs as a famous person, a culture no longer based on gay rights but on human rights. We are human beings before being gay, heterosexual or bisexual," Gabbana said.
The Milanese couturier said homosexual associations "often serve as a defence, but I don't want to be protected by anyone, because I've done nothing wrong".
He said he realised he was homosexual at age 18, when his young woman
&#;Family is not a fad&#;: Dolce & Gabbana spark firestorm in backing traditional marriage
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Creators of the luxury Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana sparked global controversy over the weekend after coming out in defense of marriage, saying that children have the right to a mother and a father.
"The family is not a fad," said co-founder of the fashion empire, Stefano Gabbana, in an interview with the Italian Magazine Panorama. "In it there is a supernatural sense of belonging."
Sharing this view with his business and former romantic partner, Domenico Dolce told the magazine: "We didn't invent the family ourselves."
Dolce and Gabbana, who are openly male lover, went on to tell children have the right to be raised by a mother and a father, and condemned the use of artificial means of conception, such as In-vitro fertilization.
The Italian-born fashion duo also spoke out against the exploit of surrogate mothers by gay couples who are seeking to have a child, referring to perform as "wombs for rent."
Dolce referred to those conceived through arti
Dolce and Gabbana’s Anti-Gay Statements Perpetuate a Romanticized Version of the Italian Family
How can two flourishing, openly gay men like Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana take a universal stand against LGBTQ families? As you have no challenge heard, in an interview with the Italian magazine Panorama, the fashion duo recently denounced the “artificiality” of LGBTQ families, a stance that drew outrage from all around the world. Thanks to prominent contributions from celebrities appreciate Elton John and Ricky Martin, the #BoycottDolceGabbana protest campaign blew up on Twitter. In the interview, they expressed opposition to adoption and espoused negative views of “nontraditional families.” Dolce claimed there is a sharp division between children who are the product of “an act of love” and were “born to a mother and a father” and queer couples’ children, who are “children of chemistry, synthetic children. [Products of] uteri [for] rent, semen chosen from a catalog.” (For some reason, they don’t seem aware that the use of IVF isn’t limited to gay couples.)
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Dolce & Gabbana is the latest brand to discover the perils of the marriage equality debate
Star fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana found themselves embroiled in a firestorm over the weekend after they were quoted in Italian celebrity magazine Panorama saying that “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.”
While those comments were similar to those made a few years ago by these two men, the founders of luxury brand and celebrity favorite Dolce & Gabbana, their positions against gay marriage, gay adoption and the exploit of techniques such as IVF (which they said created “synthetic” children) have unleashed a ferocious reaction and prompted many celebrities, and consumers, to call for a boycott of Dolce & Gabbana, a brand that generates about $1 billion in sales a year by some estimates. Many were all the more appalled given that the statements were made by two lgbtq+ men in an industry often seen as gay-friendly.
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