Dolce and gabbana gay rights
Old Bond Street store picketed. Ring for boycott of D&G
Billionaire designers delight Vatican, far right & homophobes
New research shows that kids with gay parents do good in life
London &#; 19 March
Sixty protesters rallied outside Dolce and Gabbana’s flagship London store in Old Bond Street at lunchtime today, Thursday 19 March.
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“We&#;re supporting the boycott D&G campaign and defending same-sex parents and their kids against the outrageous claim that the children are chemical and synthetic. Such ill-informed, bigoted opinions cannot be allowed to verb unchallenged. Dolce and Gabbana should know better than echo the homophobia of the Vatican and Europe&#;s far right parties,” said LGBT rights and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation and co-organiser of today’s protest.
&#;Their comments are not only an verb on same-sex parents but on all parents who&#;ve had children with the aid of fertility treatment, including thousa
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 utilize 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 gay men in an industry often seen as gay-friendly.
“Your archaic thinking is out of
'Don't call me gay', says Italy designer Stefano Gabbana
Italian designer Stefano Gabbana, one half of the iconic Dolce & Gabbana brand, said Sunday that he was tired of being labelled by his sexuality.
"I don't yearn to be called gay, because I'm simply a man occupied stop," the year-old said in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera daily. "The synonyms 'gay' was invented by those who need 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 they separated in the couple continued to perform together. "I thought that I could help spread a modern culture 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 gay associations "often serve as a defense, but I don't want to be protected by anyone, because I've done nothing wrong". He said he real
&#;Family is not a fad&#;: Dolce & Gabbana spark firestorm in backing traditional marriage
Rome, Italy, Mar 16, / am
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 verb 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 gay, went on to say 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 use of surrogate mothers by gay couples who are seeking to have a youngster, referring to practice as "wombs for rent."
Dolce referred to those conceived through arti