Adele Tells Fan to ‘Shut Up’ After Heckling Pride Month

Adele it’s a matter of pride LGBTQIA+ He is our ally and not for haters.

During the singer’s concert in Las Vegas on Saturday, June 1, she was addressing the crowd between songs when a man in the crowd interrupted her and yelled, “Pride is useless!”

Adele, 36, immediately silenced the concert audience.

“What was that? Did you just say, ‘Vanity is useless?'” Adele said on Saturday, social media footage. “Did you come on my show and just say Pride sucks? Are you stupid? Don’t be so stupid.”

He added, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, just shut up, okay?”

it was saturday first day of pride monthAn annual celebration for members of the gay community. While the month of June often honors Pride with a series of parties and parades, it’s based on something deeper.

“Pride is a protest,” billy porterwho is openly gay, specifically stated our weekly last month. “It’s time for adults to remind kids that this [a] Protest. This is not just a party. Believe me, I believe in the party. You have to. And [also] Contacting your local representatives [and] Get involved in local government. Vote, bitch.”

The first Pride celebration was launched in honor of the 1969 Stonewall riots, a series of gay liberation protests in New York City.

Adele, for her part, has been a longtime ally of the community.

“I get a lot of emails from people telling me that I make them feel so happy to be themselves and make them feel so comfortable with who they are, which I love,” she said. Outside In a 2015 post in the magazine, she revealed she once received a letter from a teenage fan who talked about revealing his identity to friends using her music. “He liked someone at school, but he didn’t reveal his identity. And he heard ‘Someone Like You’ and revealed his identity to his best friend and then the boy he liked, and it turned out he was gay too, and now they’re together — he’s about 15 years older. I had to walk away so I wouldn’t burst into tears.”

A year later, Adele honored the victims of the deadly shooting at Miami’s gay dance club Pulse during one of her concerts in Belgium.

“I’d like to start off tonight by dedicating this entire show to everyone at Orlando and Pulse Nightclub,” she said crying “The LGBTQA community has been like my soulmate ever since I was very young, so I’m very influenced by that,” she said during a concert in June 2016.