Barbra Streisand on Friday hosted an
LGBT fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City.
Held at the Cipriani Wall Street
restaurant, the event attracted hundreds of Clinton supporters who
paid as much as $250,000 to attend the gala.
Celebrities who attended the event
included actors Cynthia Nixon, Michael Urie, Laverne Cox, Erich
Bergen, Debra Messing, Kathy Najimy, Mary Louise Parker, Andrew
Rannells, Zachary Quinto, Marissa Tomei and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and
designers Isaac Mizrahi, Donna Karan and Diane von Furstenberg,
TheWrap
reported.
Out singer Rufus Wainwright performed
Over the Rainbow, while Streisand performed a
parody of Send
in the Clowns
aimed at GOP rival Donald Trump: “Is he that rich? Maybe he's
poor. Until we see his taxes, we can't be sure. Who is this clown?”
“Only 60 days left,” Clinton told
the crowd. “Don't be complacent.”
“To be grossly generalistic, you
could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of
deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic,
Islamaphobic, you name it,” Clinton said. “But that other basket
of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the
economy has let them down, nobody cares about them.”
The Trump campaign reacted swiftly to
the remarks, saying that “[Clinton had] revealed just how little
she thinks of the hard-working men and women of America.”
Clinton also called on people to stage
an “intervention” if they know somebody who is “even thinking
of voting for Trump.”
“That may be one conversion therapy I
endorse,” she said, a reference to therapies aimed at altering an
LGBT person's sexuality or gender identity. “Just remember:
Friends don't let friends vote Trump.”
(Related: Barbra
Streisand “shocked” at Donald Trump's rise.)