Elton John slams Vladimir Putin as hypocritical in open letter
Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the latest round Satuday in a tiff with Elton John over gay rights.
"Somebody came up with this idea of five or six genders," Putin said at a G20 news conference in Japan."I don't even understand what they mean."The war of words started with a Putin interview in the Financial Times. The paper said Putin accused liberal governments of pursuing a mindless multiculturalism and embracing sexual diversity, among others things.
— Elton John June 28, 2019 "I find duplicity in your comment that you want LGBT people to 'be happy' and that 'we have no problem in that'. Yet Russian distributors chose to heavily censor my film 'Rocketman' by removing all references to my finding true happiness through my 25-year relationship with David and the raising of my two beautiful sons," the singer said. John said Putin's statement felt like"hypocrisy.
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