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Harry Styles opens solo tour with rainbow flag
the former One Direction member has supported the LGBT community in the past
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Harry Styles kicked off his first solo tour at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco on Tuesday with a nod to the LGBT community.
A fan threw a rainbow flag onstage prompting Styles, 23, to attach it to his mic stand while performing his set.
Some of his fans were thrilled with the display of allyship.
i think people undermine how safe ur idol waving around a pride flag on stage can make u feel. thank u for being my safe place @Harry_Styles pic.twitter.com/E6OS8NTBlr
— . (@lgbtqiaddie) September 20, 2017
Cried in the arms of a gay man standing by me when this happened. It was a beautiful moment and a wonderful show. Thank you @Harry_Styles ?
— Marissa Sanders (@MarissaRachay) September 20, 2017
Styles has spoken out about being an LGBT ally in the past. While on the French talk show “Quotidien” in April, he said LGBT rights went beyond politics for him.
“That doesn’t feel like politics to me,” Styles said. “Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal. That doesn’t feel like politics to me.”
During a One Direction show in New York in 2015, he also brought the pride flag onstage and wore it as a cape.
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
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(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
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(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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