Fran Drescher
Fran Drescher is about to embark on a huge cocktail dance cruise on June 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the Hornblower Hybrid at Pier 40, 353 West Street in Manhattan, just in time for NYC Pride Week. It’s a Sunday Funday!
Drescher hopes to raise funds as well as awareness with respect to her “Cancer Schmancer” movement. The cruise will be filled with sunshine, food, drink, the ocean breeze and many celebrities such as Rosie O’Donnell and Cyndi Lauper.
The celebrated, world-renowned star, comedian, actress, writer, producer, ordained minister, health advocate and gay icon, hopes to make people aware of how to protect themselves from the harsh consequences of our environment relating to health and wellness. Even if you cannot make the cruise, please read her interview as it may save your life, not to mention the fact that she is wonderfully caring, funny, warm and brilliant.
On June 21, just in time to kick off Pride in NYC, you will be doing a cruise around New York. Let’s talk about that.
OK. The cruise around New York is a fundraiser for “Cancer Schmancer.” We’re very excited about it, and I also think that it’s historic. A group, a demographic, that up to this point—and rightfully so—has been very focused on themselves and their acceptance and tolerance. That’s a huge platform of mine.
Yes, I know.
I do think, and I’ve been saying this for a while now, when I do speak to the LGBT and GLAAD and all the different groups that are kind of dancing around the same obvious issue, that the time comes where you can strengthen yourselves in society by becoming more active on other issues. That’s why I think that this is historic, because as a community the more you unify in terms of support on something else, the more that other groups, those that are more tolerant, those that maybe aren’t as tolerant, opt to be more accepting because it serves them well. Do you see what I’m saying?
Yes.
If the Jews always talked about how they have been ostracized for millennia, after a while no one else is going to care that much. Once you get deeply rooted in other issues, suddenly they start yielding to the political power they feel. Now, for me, it’s a natural link, because obviously I’m a gay icon and spend a great deal of time supporting the community, and I’ve got the gay ex-husband, but it started before he came out. It’s just so perfect. That’s how things just worked out. I’m a cancer survivor, and I’ve officiated some gay weddings, and I’ve been fighting for same-sex marriage for years. And now, with same sex-marriage being legal, I’ve actually officiated a few, and families are emerging. I buy more wedding cards for same-sex couples and more baby gifts for same-sex couples.
