Real Talk: Rufus Wainwright Edition

“I don’t have the energy or the emotional repression to bottle that stuff up. It’s true, it’s tougher careerwise if you come out, but this is a human-rights issue, and it’s important to keep putting dents in it. It’s about two teenagers being beheaded for holding hands in Saudi Arabia. It’s bigger than someone’s music career.” – Wainwright says why he thinks it’s cynical to advise musicians, not to come out.