{"id":16023,"date":"2020-10-28T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=16023"},"modified":"2020-11-10T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T13:25:44","slug":"in-a-gay-bar-cher-mixes-up-us-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/in-a-gay-bar-cher-mixes-up-us-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"In a gay bar: Cher stirrs up US election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icon-icon (once is not enough) Cher appeared at a virtual benefit concert in support of presidential candidate Joe Biden. She sang the song: &#8220;Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe&#8221; and even rearranged the lyrics in honour of her favorite. She then visited a gay bar in Las Vegas and called on the boys to vote &#8211; making it clear that if Trump was re-elected, things could be worse for queers than they ever were.<\/p>\n<p>On November 3, 2020 the presidential elections will take place. There is a lot at stake &#8211; if not everything. The Democrats are fighting using all means &#8211; and they are not fighting alone. Cher&#8217;s performance was the icing on the cake of a fundraiser entitled &#8220;I Will Vote&#8221; as part of Joe Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign. Before her, stars such as Jennifer Hudson, P!nk, John Legend and the Black Eyed Peas had already appeared to support the Democrat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16044\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16044\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16044 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Official_portrait_of_Vice_President_Joe_Biden-615x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Official_portrait_of_Vice_President_Joe_Biden-615x770.jpg 615w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Official_portrait_of_Vice_President_Joe_Biden-215x269.jpg 215w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Official_portrait_of_Vice_President_Joe_Biden-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Official_portrait_of_Vice_President_Joe_Biden-1226x1536.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Official_portrait_of_Vice_President_Joe_Biden-1635x2048.jpg 1635w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Official_portrait_of_Vice_President_Joe_Biden-scaled.jpg 2044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Biden was given an honor that millions of gays would kill for: Cher sang a song for him<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cher even rewrote the lyrics of the 1943 Oscar-nominated song from the musical &#8220;Cabin in the Sky&#8221; as a tribute to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got a way that makes the angels heave a sigh \/ When they know president Joe&#8217;s passing by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Right now our country&#8217;s gloomy, fear is in the air \/ But when Joe&#8217;s president, hope is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Joe will keep us safe &#8211; that&#8217;s all we need to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cher - Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe [Official Video]\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X0Jk5-SN8BQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;You&#8217;re not old enough to remember how bad it was.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>After her appearance at the virtual concert, the almighty Cher still found time to visit a gay bar in Las Vegas. There she is said to have washed the heads of queer maybe-voters with energetic words &#8211; and to have called the election the most important thing that had happened in her 74 years on this earth.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation about her fears that a second term for Trump would mean for the US and the world, she said that especially for the LGBTIQ+ community in the US, this election was about everything:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of you aren\u2019t old enough maybe to remember how bad it was, but it was really bad \u2014 and it can be worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Twitter, Trump and Thieves<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that Cher does not like Donald Trump and his politics &#8211; quite a few would even claim her to hate him passionately. Already in the 2016 election campaign, the music icon took a clear stand against the Republican. On Twitter, the well-known advocate for the rights of minorities and women regularly expresses her views on his policies.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, she sometimes became very direct: among other things, she called Trump a &#8220;liar&#8221;, a &#8220;dictator&#8221;, a &#8220;thug&#8221; and, referring to his Covid politics, a &#8220;mass murderer&#8221;. She also compared him with Adolf Hitler &#8211; and caused a shitstorm when she expressed the hope in a tweet, which has since been deleted, that Trump would go to prison and experience sexual abuse as the &#8220;toy boy of Big Bubba&#8221;. Although she later admitted that the joke had gone too far, she refused to apologise to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our top 3 of her tweets against the US president:<\/p>\n<p>1. Trump in bed with &#8220;Daddy&#8221; Putin &#8211; a picture you won&#8217;t forget quickly:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ok Daddy,,, I&#39;ll Do Whatever you want.. ,Just Make Me  List &amp; promise you&#39;ll <br \/>respect me in the morning <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ezsTSpJgl\">pic.twitter.com\/2ezsTSpJgl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cher (@cher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/758010098719399937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. President Troll &#8211; lol:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After today I can no longer call him<br \/>President Trump\u2026. From this day forward\u2026\u2026\u2026 HES <br \/>       \u201cPRESIDENT TROLL\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cher (@cher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/861783967762010112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. She even wasted her creativity and wrote a limerick to make fun of Trump<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">little Bo Peep She Lost Her Sheep,<br \/>&amp; Doesnt Know Where 2 Find Them.<br \/>Little Bro Trump Has Doubled his Rump,&amp; Doesn\u2019t know where 2 Hide it<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cher (@cher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/854915693816324097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icon-icon (once is not enough) Cher appeared at a virtual benefit concert in support of presidential candidate Joe Biden. She sang the song: &#8220;Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe&#8221; and even rearranged the lyrics in honor of her favorite. She then visited a gay bar in Las Vegas and called on the boys to vote &#8211; making it clear that if Trump was re-elected, things could be worse for queers than they ever were. <a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/in-a-gay-bar-cher-mixes-up-us-election-campaign\/\"><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"showAllLink\">more&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":16046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[1,7,22,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16023"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16060,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions\/16060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}