Joan Collins has had five weddings, so you’d hope she knows a little something about the institution of marriage. But what does the diva – who to some is a gay icon due to her role as Alexis Carrington in 80s soap Dynasty – think about gay marriage?
In an interview with The Advocate, she was initially a little reticent to say, “I’m not one of [those people]. Again, you’re getting into a political situation here, which I really don’t want to get involved in. Obviously, I have so many gay friends. Many of them are married, many of them have children, many of them are in civil partnerships. I also have many heterosexual friends who are in the same situations. It’s up to the individual.”
She was drawn into the question by being asked about the sanctity of marriage in relation to her multiple partnerships, to which she replied, “I don’t really know what that means. Explain to me the sanctity of marriage and I’ll tell you.”
Collins was speaking to The Advocate ahead of her appearance – in the sitcom Happily Divorced, where she plays a thinly-veiled version of herself. The comedy stars Fran Drescher and John Michael Higgins as a couple who, after 18 years of marriage, have to change their lives when he reveals that he’s gay (it’s partially based on Drescher’s own marriage to Peter Marc Jacobson).
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