Gloria Estefan opens up about her daughter’s coming out journey l GMA 

I remember hearing that when Gloria heard, she said, "I'm so glad your Abuela isn't here to hear this. It would end her."

Most people already knew her daughter was gay before Gloria figured it out. It's ironic because Gloria has a large gay following. Gloria had that popular music video "Everlasting Love" with drag queens on MTV in the 90's. That video was considered groundbreaking at the time. That video is not a big deal nowadays.

She looks and sounds like her mother.

Gloria is from another generation we also have to understand that. Our parents DO NOT think like us in so many ways. We have to be patient but the best way to convince them of who we are or who we want to be is to be persistent and consistent with our life style, with whatever it is that we want to accomplish.

You can tell Gloria is heartbroken. She's really struggling with this. But trying to put on a brave face. I'm going to keep them in prayer.

When I came out to my mother her first words to me were,”Can’t you just be friends?” I knew she didn’t mean to hurt me, but it really did. She may have either been coming from an image issue or just really concerned for my well being and acceptance. I think I finally got to her when I said,”I don’t want to die alone.” These conversations between the Estefans was huge. It’s a transparency we need for some parents to understand.

I am gay and I used to blame my mother for her non-acceptance, but today at 48yo I try to put myself in her shoes and see through her eyes not according to todays standards, but yesterday's standards. Don't judge your parents and turn them into your enemy.

Something tells me that her grandmother would have been more accepting than what Gloria believed.

Not only is Gloria a boomer...she is also Latin, and more specifically Cuban from Miami...meaning, she was raised very, very conservative. She was probably the kind of person who had a lot of gay friends but wasn't completely okay with having a gay child. As a Hispanic woman myself, I know plenty of people like that. I am happy and proud she was able to look past all of that and accepted and embraced her beautiful daughter.

Off topic here, BUT… can we all agree on how GORGEOUS both Gloria and Emily are?!

You can see through Glorias 👀 eyes of sadness

I love this women her music and when my PR got hit by Maria she was there to help . She just has a big heart

Bless them for being so real about it. It ain't always perfect.

All I can do or say is sending Love to them !

Our children NEED and DESERVE our UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and ACCEPTANCE 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️

And her abuela probably knew all along...we dont give our elders the credit they deserve for having simple intuition from their life experiences because we cannot relate to their time period of growing up

Same experience with my mom as Emily. I think it just comes down o assumption and bias where parents believe that there kids are not "normal" and need to be "fixed" and also believing seeing them as primarily as gay instead of as there child. I also think its common for parents to assume that they did something wrong instead of seeing it as a natural thing, where some people are and others are not and even more falling in between. Also from experience I think if people do not know or have not had any prior interactions with people of different sexualities or race they tend to see them as a stereotype until and IF they interact with more than one person from the community. Thiis is why I think people from smaller towns tend to assume some things about gay people while people in the city probably see them more as individuals since its more likly hey have interacted with these individuals on a daily basis. From personal experience my mom has a hard time accepting me, but my dad didnt care about my sexuality (he didn't see it as less than or more than it just was what it was). Later I found out one of my uncles from my dads side was gay while there was no one from my moms side, I think growing up with him he saw him early on as his brother who was an individual first rather than as a gay person. These are jsut thoughts.

Interesting how people like Gloria and Cher, who've been making money of Gay people since the 20th century first have to regress to the state of a 1950's hausfrau when they learn their child is gay. I appreciate everyone's journey and the willingness to be open, but I still feel a sense of dissapointment. The thing she said to her daughter about the grandmother is just cruel.

I love this so much!

I wish her abuela was here to be more accepting and supportive than Gloria She probably would be

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I love Gloria Estefan. I’ve met her and she didn’t disappoint my idea of her through her celebrity. She’s a *Virgo and thus I can see how she reacted that way. She did step up to more acceptance and love with her daughter (Note: *corrected from the original post saying she was a Capricorn).

I hate the term “tell my truth”

I don't know how her parents didn't know she was gay

Very interesting.

Forced acceptance is never good even if ur family. U can love them but not agree with or have to accept their choices

Doesn't really matter what we think. It matters how we feel and we have to work on ourselves and start thinking that LOVE IS LOVE. No matter what, no matter who. If I love my child, I love her unconditionally. That means, she or he is what she or he is and my only job as a mother is love unconditionally. No excuses, no but, no nothing, just love.

Emily is happy with the woman she has chosen to have in her arms.

Cuando van a hablar de el divorsio de lili estefan?

Coming out stories have been seen,and heard for many years now. U'd think everybody understands it,and should accept it. For example, when we see the audience of Ellen degenerous ,cheering her,and claiming they love her, but if their kids come out to be gay, most of them will not accept it.

The question is why do people sell their life experiences? This is stuff that should be kept within. Who cares really?

Jesus, man, it's the 2020s. People need to stop acting like being gay is a bad thing, and they need to drop that "I only accept it because I love you" attitude. Being gay is not a character flaw. It is not something to be ashamed of. And it is not something that people choose. Being gay is as natural as being straight or being bi. If a middle-aged straight guy who was raised Catholic like me can understand this, then really everyone else should too.

I love Gloria … I also think her daughter is extremely talented .. I hope they are all ok.

What a sad situation to have to work through.

I noticed that Hollywood kids coming out gay and lesbian I wonder if something happen to them or just want to be a follower to be accepted just odd, I feel sorry for Gloria

Ok, how naked they were. But still love each other. Acceptance!! It’s beautiful.

Even with the support of their families, some kids have a hard time because not the entire society is accepting of gay people (so sue me for saying gay). It's hard enough just being a teen facing adulthood, but many of gay teens also struggle with their own self acceptance.

I came out to the rest of my family and friends in Oct 2021 via Facebook post. I'm 56 yrs old. I was in the Navy for 20 yrs and retired in 2005. I was in the Navy when you could not be out and open. I knew there was something different about me, but I wasn't in a position to explore or do deep soul searching of my sexuality. I have a 28 yr old son. Now I am PROUD of who I am. Last May I met a wonderful woman who is now my fiancee and I will be a stepmom to a 6 yr old daughter. We are an age gap couple, she is 39. I am happier now since coming out as a lesbian, than I was before trying to be straight.🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

If you're a parent from the x and even y generation, having a son or daughter who turned gay is usually considered a shame on the whole family. The mentality of that time dictated that sexual preferences should be kinda private, not the freak show that has become nowadays, with Facebook, a special Coming Out Day, etc. Estefan is dismayed by her daughter's life choices and her grandmother would have certainly felt the emmotional stress of revealing such a decision which could be dangerous for an old person. IMO Gloria Estefan did the best for her family by quashing the self gratifying announcement of a glorified lesbian thus minimizing the risk of more drama. It was the decision even a person who had a spherectomy procedure performed on him/herself would have made.

Why do people put pressure on others for not accepting their lifestyle ? Then, expect people to just change their mind & beliefs to suit them ? You can love someone without agreeing with them

LGBTQ community supports Gloria's music!!

Sad to see that Gloria really didn't accept her.

Interesting just how much celebrities have gay children. Its really wild when you think about it.

She looks just like gloria back in the 80s and 90s

Everybody bout to do the dam red table talk

gloria estefan look great on good morning america !!!

Love from Sénégal ❤

No doubt she loves her daughter. Its okay to love your child but not agree with their sexuality.

I swear, I knew years ago , I said , I think Gloria's daughter is a lesbian

Celebrating what’s dead that did not come from God. Is a shame that she’s gay. This is a spirit and needs a lot of prayer.

I am tired of the ageism referring to “boomers” as being close-minded. I am a boomer/genX and more open about LGBTQIA than my daughter’s friends (who are Gen Z). So please, be aware of the age bigotry before making assumptions.

She looks just like her mom

I’m a huge fan of Gloria Estefan but I truly believe she doesn’t accept her daughter for who she is. Her generation is the last of traditional Latinos who believe their children should be straight, get married, have kids, and continue “that” legacy. Gloria’s son did that but not her “miracle child.” Gloria has seen Emily as the “miracle child” as her doctors told her she would never be able to have a kid again after her near-fatal bus accident in 1990. I’m sure Gloria had the dream of all mothers do of their daughters. I’m asexual and my Dominican parents and my 87-year-old Dominican grandmother don’t accept me for being who I am. I don’t blame them - it’s the engrained roots of Latin cultures who see that their children should only be straight. Fortunately, my generation as well as today’s generation are more open-minded but we honestly can’t blame older generations for what they were simply taught growing up. My blessing to Gloria, Emily, and the entire Estefan family. 🙏🏽

Gloria you didn't learn from the Chapter in Glee where you represented a Mother of a gay daughter???? You were so wrong with that answer to your daughter...

God Bless

Gloria know this is not right she know already !!!🙏🏻

I look forward to the day when no one will have the need to come out or have to explain anything about who they love.

I really hope one day in the future we can reach a point where no one has to come out and everyone is accepted for who they are and who they love 💕

. Truth is not relative. Truth is absolute. I feel bad for anybody that sees truth as relative.

I put myself in Gloria's shoes as a mom. It's very painful to have a daughter and have all these dreams of how her life will look like and honestly I'm open, but this whole gay agenda being pushed (because it is being pushed) I just don't want my child "experimenting" but of she comes out gay Ill accept it. If she starts blurring lines though sleeping with whomever and whatever under the guise of "love is love" no. Anything doesn't go for me. There has to be a moral compass in everyone.

I hope people understand old school Latinos (have compassion for both sides ) it appears that Gloria in the depth of her heart feels guilt. My grandmother out three kids , 2 came out gay and lesbian, my abuela still feels it’s her fault that they are gay.

Look at CHER!!! IT TOOK HER LIFETIME TO ACCEPT HER DAUGHTERS PREFEENCE!! FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA!!!

My grand daughter mother left her husband to Merried a woman she went to sleep one day and didn't wake up this mess is a curse people wake up !

WELCOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL FAMILY HEY MS G I SEE U HEY MR E AND HEY TO JR LOOOOVE U GUYS

God and to think Conga was featured in The Birdcage, she played Natalia's Mother on Glee when she got married to Brittany, which are synonomus in the LGBT Community. On the UK Drama Ackley Bridge an Indian Girl told her mother she was gay and se didn't want to hear it. She later ran into the daughter of some old friends and found out she had a partner named kate and her husband and a daughter, i think the husband was gay too and they had an open marriage. Her daughter fell in love with her teacher who was also indian.

You can clearly see at Gloria's eyes thinking on her daughter: "she really screw up her life". Sorry for her.

Sexuality does not defined you as a person....you are who you are. If Ppl can not accept it , that's their problem ...love is love. As long as you are happy that is all that matters !!!

Read Roman's 1 please. Thanks.

I will always support her and her daughter too! I am very proud of her daughter as gay! Never judge about gay relationship!

A child is under no obligation to make it ok for the parent to be ok with their sexuality. You either choose to be supportive or not. There is absolutely no gray area there. The grandma comment made me so incredibly sad. Much love and light to all of them. Here is to accepting your child unconditionally.

Sending prayers to the Estefan family!! 🙏✝️🙏 en el nombre de JESUS!!

You know I used to see her daughter as a child and I always thought she was gay.

This coming from the woman who writes parodies from which her songs are derived... Anything for you but you are not here she wrote from Anyone will do since you are not here... Gloria didn't know that one day this would backfire? 😳 BTW her daughter is very spoiled and disrespectful.

I bet she has her eyes on Emily Estefan..!

Just because Gloria doesn't agree with her daughter's life style doesn't make her a bad person. I am so sick and tired of the LGBT "COMMUNITY " Shoving their belief's and life style down our throat's!!!!!

I thought she was LGBTQ! Beautiful young lady and her mother's twin! When she smiled I was like omg...ummm...Is that Gloria or??? Totally confused me lol

Her father is Lebanese, its hard to accept in our culture

Please someone help Rogel Aguilera-Meros the truck driver 🙏

Oh my god what is Robyn wearing? Ughhh

What a spoild girl.

What the fuck you all ripped off the Smith's Red Table Talk! Create your own ideas!

How about the God who created her musically gifted who created her abilities and where she came from wasn't it doesn't matter who she made money for because God is the one who blesses everyone has a different jar of music I backed up how much she loves her daughter and I pray for a turn around and a Deliverance

Omg her daughter is a bull dagger.Now she can be the stud she was meant to be.Good for her.Therapy really ????She has a lesbian daughter why would she need therapy when it’s so normal.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

When you’ve grown up in huge privilege and still have the need complain about what your mama said ...such waste of energy.

I hate this Red Table stupidity, why to overshare private issues and matters with the whole world?. This is my personal opinion, of course!

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How dare you do this to our father our God in heaven who died on the cross for your sins and who gave you your mother to love and accept you and to give you the blessing of a musical career you decide to use something against her to engage in your activity living the way God wants you to live instead of the world as a mother she accepted and loved you because you're her daughter and she don't want to hurt you and wants to support you if you really look at the real of this you should be looking to God to repent and turn from it you were blessed to have an outstanding mother who was gifted I pray for you and her but I pray for deliverance to turn it around

Guacatela ... !!!

Omg lol they r coping jada

Emely you are a beautiful and talented and brave.

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So Gloria is doing this show because her daughter is gay?? So the next celeb to find out their child is gay.... will get a red table talk show too?

Every Family should support their Children's orientation. IMO If you truly love and accept them as themselves..

These red table shows are ridiculous. Why put out your dirty personal laundry

The girl is a huuuge talent (i mean it).. but a tv show about her coming out?? Why do we care about any person's sexuality so much? Put some percussions on her hands and listen her real talent instead..

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Poor Gloria, no one wants to have a weird kid in the family.

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