Brett Berks’ Mom Has Tried Out-Gaying Him All His Life. Today, She Conquered
Brett Berk, a child consumer research consultant and author of The Gay Uncle’s Guide to Parenting, was fine when his mother Donna Barnett, a jewelry designer, started dating women. After all, when Brett came out to mom, there was no tension or negativity; just a comment about how she used to have crushes on her female teachers. Then Donna managed to “out-gay” her own fagala son, taking up with a Tony nominee, planning a wedding (which Brett and his partner didn’t want for themselves), and going overboard with the PDA, and Brett wasn’t too pleased about the encroachment on homosexuality. And then mama had to go and get her photo plastered in today’s New York Times — kissing Broadway vet and girlfriend Terri White, who stars in Finian’s Rainbow.
Sorry, kiddo: Mama is officially gayer.
Says Brett: “Way to go moms.”
You just lost me. Terri White is someone who loves with her soul and not unwisely. To turn this article about an amazing artist who turned her life around into an affront on some self-entitled-soon-to-be-step-child you lose not just me but probably a great deal of your community in the NYC Cabaret, Theater, and Art world.
Queerty – - please check your facts. Terri is NOT a Tony nominee, she was simply a castmember of a show that was nominated. BIG difference. You do a disservice all performers who were acctually nominated by calling her a nominee. Only people who were nominated BY NAME is a specific category (best actress, best supporting actress, etc) are really allowed to call themselves or be referred to as a Tony nominee.
She, among others, call themselves nominees when they are not. Pretending to be something that you aren’t is not the essence of the Broadway community. (and yes, I am a Broadway insider).
(To respond to the first poster – you lose your audience when you lie about your credits)