LEGENDARY designer Tom Ford is spilling the T in the latest issue of The Advocate, and a bitch isn't holding back! In the interview, while promoting his directorial debut "A Single Man," he talks about how he hated designing for Yves Saint Laurent, the first blowjob he ever gave not defining himself by his sexuality, and his feelings on gay marriage vs. civil unions:
His experience working with Yves Saint Laurent:
"I don’t even remember much about my time at Yves Saint Laurent, though I do think some of my best collections were [there]—other than that black-and-white initial one. That one wasn’t very successful and wasn’t very good. But being at Yves Saint Laurent was such a negative experience for me even though the business boomed while I was there. Yves and his partner, Pierre Bergé, were so difficult and so evil and made my life such misery. I’d lived in France off and on and had always loved it. I went to college in France. It wasn’t until I started working in France that I began to dislike it. They would call the fiscal police, and they would show up at our offices. You are not able to work an employee more than 35 hours a week. They’re like Nazis, those police. They’d come marching in, and you had to let them in and they’d interview my secretary. And they can fine you and shut you down. Pierre was the one calling them. I’ve never talked about this on the record before, but it was an awful time for me. Pierre and Yves were just evil. So Yves Saint Laurent doesn’t exist for me."
On giving his first blowjob with no teeth:
“I never knew I liked men sexually until Ian came into my life. And he wasn’t just my first male kiss. The first blow job I ever gave anyone was the one I gave to Ian in the back of a cab on the way home from a night at Studio 54 as we made our way down to where he lived on Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue. Of course, it was a Checker cab.”
On being definined by his sexuality:
“I don’t think of myself as gay. That doesn’t mean that I’m not gay. I just don’t define myself by my sexuality.”
On gay marrigae vs. civil unions:
"A few weeks ago Richard had to go into the hospital for something, and I had to carry around all these legal documents saying I could make medical decisions for him. It was insane. The fact that we are not married in the federal sense means that if I were to die, he’d have to pay all these taxes on my estate and receive but a fraction of it and he’d have to alter his life —whereas if we were married, he wouldn’t have to face that burden. That’s disgusting. It’s wrong. But that said, I think I am in favor of terming what I’m talking about as a civil partnership. We all get so caught up with this word marriage. For me, the word marriage is something that a religion should decide. Just give me all the same rights. A civil partnership is what I’d like for everyone—heterosexual as well as homosexual. Call it what you like—it’s the rights that are important. Getting hung up with the semantics derails the cause we’re all fighting for."
I couldn't agree with him more on his stance about gay marriage. We do get too wrapped up in straights treating us equal. i personally don't give a shit. As long as I have a say in my significan other's future as far as if he got sick (god forbid), I don't want the same shit as marriage. i mean, straights are doing a bang up job with it, don't you think? I want the benefits, not the name. So if civil unions will give gays and lesbians the same benefits as marriage, sign me up. I've gone by this motto all my life, and will continue to do so: "You don't have to like me or what I do, or believe in the decisions I make, but you will respect me." Case closed! Oh and P.S. Who hasn't given a guy a blowjob in the back of a cab? If you haven't, it's definitely something you should try. More at Advocate.com
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