LGBTQ news and entertainment
When you see folks stand in the public square “defending” traditional marriage because it needs to be “protected,” ask them this…
By a HUGE margin more straight couples divorce than gay and lesbian couples marry.
Where is the campaign to ban divorce?…
TMZ is reporting that after 18 years of marriage Melanie Griffith has filed for divorce from Antonio Banderas.
Court docs apparently indicate that Griffith asks for sole custody of their sole child, Stella, as well as child support. Kind of a moot point since she turns 18 in September. In addition, Griffith is asking for spousal support.
This is Griffith’s fourth divorce. She was twice married to Don Johnson and once to Steve Bauer. This is Banderas’ second divorce.
You’ve got to wonder – after 18 years??? What could have happened now that’s so bad. Or were things bad for a while and the couple stayed together for the daughter?
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| The Captain and Tennille |
While I know we HAVE to take anything in the National Enquirer with a a grain of salt, I have also seen reports from events I personally attended and found very “inside” information that I knew to be true made available in the tabloid.
That disclaimer said – the National Enquirer is now “reporting” (if you will) that Toni Tennille filed for divorce last month, surprising fans everywhere, because she is allegedly lesbian and left the Captain for another woman.
From the National Enquirer:
After the singers’ 39-year marriage recently collapsed, the Internet lit up with claims that 73-year-old Toni Tennille dumped her ailing 71-year-old husband “Captain” Daryl Dragon because she’s been seeing another woman.
One blogger insisted that the songbird “is gay and has had a girlfriend for years.”
Another online celebrity watcher, who said her information came from a friend of the performers’ family, added that Toni is happy with her lover and “no longer found Daryl useful, ever since his illnesses caused him to cease playing keyboard or performing music.”
It has been widely reported that Daryl Dragon suffers tremors caused by a neurological condition similar to Parkinson’s disease.
I hate when divorce gossip defaults to a “coming out” story. It connects a story to the LGBT community from an unfortunate perspective.
However, it is actually much more common than the general public is aware that many marriages happened for reasons other than physical love. And as seniors, people have been known to “come out” late in life.
I don’t know if Tennille is gay or not. Nor do I care. Both Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon have always seemed very likeable and I have nothing negative about them to say.
But if it were true it would make for an interesting conversation, much like Meredith Baxter’s story, about how love and marriage were lived in the not too distant past and now present.
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| Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille at the height of their fame |
People is reporting that Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon, better known to millions as the 1970s singing group The Captain & Tennille, are divorcing after 39 years of marriage.
A statement on CaptainandTennille.net appears to confirm that a split is in the offing:
“Until Thursday, January 16th, 2014, when Toni Tennile met with a DIVORCE ATTORNEY, in Phoenix, AZ, everything relating to THE CAPTAIN & TENNILLE appeared to the public as them being the ideal model for a ‘rock-solid’ married pair. But almost all people naturally evolve over time, & sometimes hidden feelings start to be uncovered when one may read, just a little more into (the popularized, substitute heading appearing just below), stating, for instance: ‘MUSIC HAS KEPT THEM TOGETHER.'”
TMZ spoke by phone with Dragon, 71, who seemed blindsided by the break-up. “I don’t know why she filed. I gotta figure it out for myself first.”
Dragon and Tennille met in the early 1970s and married in 1974. Their first big hit, Love Will Keep Us Together, stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for nine weeks in 1975.
Among their other big hits were Do That to Me One More Time and Muskrat Love.
They also had a variety show on ABC that ran from 1976 to 1977.
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Jane Lynch, who filed official divorce papers on Friday to end her marriage to Lara Embry, sat down with Larry King on the second season premiere of his show Larry King Now on digital on-demand.
Lynch told King that the split was amicable: “We have to remain adults, which we have… We keep everybody — especially Haden’s — good in our mind.”
According to People Magazine, Jane Lynch is divorcing her wife Lara Embry: People magazine reports:
Lynch, 52, and Embry, 44, met at a 2009 fundraiser in San Francisco at which Embry was being honored. Shortly after confirming their engagement, the women married on Memorial Day in 2010 in an intimate ceremony in Sunderland, Mass., one of the few states where gay marriage is recognized.
Heidi Klum will file for divorce from Seal … TMZ has reported.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Heidi will file divorce papers in L.A. County Superior Court as early as next week. We’re told Heidi will cite “irreconcilable differences” as the cause for the divorce.
The couple married May 10, 2005. They have 3 biological kids. Seal adopted Heidi’s eldest girl from a prior relationship.
The couple is famous for renewing their vows every year on their anniversary … in a lavish ceremony.
As for splitting up the goodies, there’s a lot on the line. According to Forbes, in the last year alone, Klum raked in $20 million. It’s unclear how much Seal made.
Heidi attended last Sunday’s Golden Globes without Seal. The last photo she tweeted with him was back on December 26.