Italian designer Stefano Gabbana, said Sunday that he was tired of being labelled by his sexuality. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be called gay, because I\u2019m simply a man… full stop,\u201d the 55-year-old said in an interview with Italy\u2019s Corriere della Sera daily. \u201cThe word \u2018gay\u2019 was invented by those who need to label people, and I don\u2019t want to be identified by my sexual choices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought that I could help spread a new 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,\u201d Gabbana said.<\/p>\n
The Milanese couturier said gay associations \u201coften serve as a defence, but I don\u2019t want to be protected by anyone, because I\u2019ve done nothing wrong\u201d. He said he realised he was homosexual aged 18, when his girlfriend \u201cwho I really liked\u201d came to visit him for a weekend in Milan, but when they went dancing he \u201cwas watching the men more than her\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had known (about being gay) for a while, but I didn\u2019t have the courage to admit it. Only through therapy did I realise that there had been clear signs in my childhood. I wanted to play alone… because I felt different from the other children and I feared that if we were together they would realise. And they would tell my mother,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Italian designer Stefano Gabbana, said Sunday that he was tired of being labelled by his sexuality. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be called gay, because I\u2019m simply a man… full stop,\u201d the 55-year-old said in an interview with Italy\u2019s Corriere della Sera daily. \u201cThe word \u2018gay\u2019 was invented by those who need to label people, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3232,3233,3235,3231,3224,3226,3228,3236,3230,3227,3237,3234,3229,3225],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-gay","tag-heterosexual-or-bisexual","tag-homosexual-aged-18","tag-human-beings","tag-italian-designer-stefano-gabbana","tag-italian-designer-stefano-gabbana-says-i-dont-want-to-be-called-gay","tag-italys-corriere-della-sera-daily","tag-my-childhood","tag-my-sexual-choices","tag-sexuality","tag-tell-my-mother","tag-the-milanese-couturier","tag-the-word-gay","tag-to-be-called-gay"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}