Patti LuPone is both a Broadway icon and a bubble-dwelling celebrity.
The 70-something performer likely has no idea what happens in the world unless her New York Times subscription tells her. That's not a critique, per se, just reality. She's far from alone in that bubble-dwelling mindset in her celebrity class.
This reporter once asked Josh Brolin about attacks on speech across college campuses - this was roughly 2017, a time when the woke mind virus was taking over academia. The veteran actor had no idea what I was talking about. He and his peers likely still don't know about the trouble right-leaning speakers face for simply sharing their views at the university level.
That's the bubble at work.
The phenomenon explains LuPone's shock when she and a gaggle of gay fans got denied entrance to a Turkish port this week. Why? The boat's passengers clashed with "family values," according to Deadline.com's take on the course of events.
Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
LuPone fired back via, wait for it, Instagram.
“I am shocked ... The Atlantis cruise I am performing on next week has been banned from entering Turkey. A ship – a magnificent ship – full of gay men. And me. Denied entry to Turkey simply because of who is on board. I am furious, but I am sailing, as the ship will make other ports of call. I am ready to perform for the wonderful men on this Atlantis cruise, who deserve so much better than this.
She's right, of course. She simply had no idea that this thinking still existed in the civilized world. It's similar to far-Left "Hacks" alum Hannah Einbinder going all-in for Palestinians and Gaza without realizing one critical fact.
She's bisexual and that wouldn't go over well in that part of the globe. Yet it doesn't stop her from saying, "Free Palestine" and attacking Israel at every turn. She'd be welcomed in the latter country and, well, who knows what might happen to her in the former.
Here's guessing she'll never travel there to find out.
LuPone probably thinks the Trump administration would love to prevent gay people from enjoying her concerts. The star has little real knowledge of MAGA, the Right or evolving views on gay rights. Does she realize Trump's Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is gay?
She previously compared the Christian Right to Al Qaeda, another sign of her bubble-dwelling mindset. And, for good measure, she wished The Kennedy Center would get "blown up" after Team Trump took it over. (She likely doesn't realize that Richard Grenell, the former President of the Center under Trump, is also a gay man.)
And, while she took a tough stance on Instagram against the Turkish reaction, she isn't always so brave. Earlier this year, she came under Cancel Culture-style attack for criticizing two of her fellow Broadway performers. They happened to be black, and the Outrage Mob kicked in in short order by playing the Race Card.
LuPone meekly backpedaled and apologized.
Here's betting she wouldn't even glance at her Instagram account if she faced those Turkish officials in person.
