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WOW! Not much in the news has shocked and surprised me as much as this article has.
I'm really curious to know what legal action he intends to take. Doesn't he have to show some sort of damages for any hope of not throwing his money away on frivolous lawsuits that will go nowhere?
He does, but it can also be things like reputation damage or "the fascists stopped paying for my song because they thought it was gay".
Who the hell does he think he was making money from before? If not for the LGBTQ+ community, that song would just be some old 70s song. Welp, pulling it from my playlist.
Brilliant. Marvellous, even.
I mean, Liberace sued for libel and won after a news outlet accused of him of being gay:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace_v_Daily_Mirror