Everybody loves a comeback.
Just two weeks after the internet surrounded Jennifer Holliday with tiny, imaginary pitchforks when it was announced she’d be singing at the Grabber-in-Chief’s inauguration, she’s living it up on a gay cruise. It’s the American dream.
The Tony Award-winning original cast member of Dreamgirls headlined ‘Atlantis Events’ Caribbean cruise, where she made sure that lapse in Trump judgment was all water under the indoor rock climbing wall on deck 3.
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“The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career and I am deeply indebted to you,” she wrote in an open letter earlier this month.
“You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded.”
Atlantis reportedly reached out to Holliday after she backed out of the inauguration, and judging by her reception in the videos below, it was a great move for both parties:
https://youtu.be/9Nt-fuAUHqk
surreal33
GIRL BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ChrisK
She doesn’t give a shit either way as long as she stays relevant.
David Bolton
I find it hard to believe that anyone would need a sense that “people [were] over the election” before choosing to sing at the inauguration of a candidate like Donald Trump.
Did you watch the news—the NONSTOP news—Jennifer? Did you not have contact with any friends, neighbors, family, co-workers, Jennifer? I am a firm proponent of standing up for what you believe in—on either side—but those beliefs have consequences that you should be prepared to face. If I hate my boss and let him or her know that, then I might get fired. I have to accept that. If I don’t like a minority and post about them on Facebook, there might be blowback and criticism. If I have a long-standing relationship with a group of people who are put at risk by someone with whom I choose to ally myself, I should not be surprised when that group is upset by my actions.
This all screams of botched self-promotion on Jennifer’s part and it will take more than a cruise ship performance or two to make up for it.
Shadeaux
Sometimes gay folks just need a reason to hate people. I guess because we’ve been hated for so long. We’ll never get a better apology than we did from Jennifer but people are still angry. I just don’t get it.