“I’m not gay!” How Bowie backtracked on his bisexualy for Let's Dance | Lour

Contents:

• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• “I’M NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE
• I’M GAY AND I’M NOT A TOP OR A BOTTOM – I’M A ‘SI’

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

Tom Holland has been fend by fans over The Crowd Room backlash ( Picture: Apple TV)Tom Holland has been fend by fans om homophobic backlash over a sex scene The Crowd Room. While the moment set social media alight wh praise, also enuraged bigots to plague Twter wh homophobic remarks. ‘It only took Tom Holland dog one gay scene for Twter to explo to homophobic rants, agile masculy & toxic behavur, ’ wrote on fan.

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

Another agreed: ‘People makg homophobic jok about this need to unrstand that the hallmark of a good actor is lettg yourself be open to new rol that challenge you.

‘The way how y’all are rpondg to Tom Holland actg a f**kg SHOW is beyond juvenile and homophobic, ’ fumed a third, and their cri were thankfully echoed by so many others.

“I’M NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE

It had jt eight songs and, of them, the tle track and Cat People had already been released, Cha Girl was a new versn of a song he'd wrten wh Iggy Pop 1977, and Crimal World was a ver versn of another 1977 release by Brish band Metro – a song that had been banned by the BBC for allns to gay sex. “He is not gay, whatever he may have blurted out 1972, ” wrote terviewer Kurt Lor, “nor was he ever a transvte, thank you. Released as a sgle 1977, Metro’s Crimal World had been banned by the BBC for s ‘sexual ntent’: allns to cross-drsg and gay sex.

Wrten 1974, jt five years after England and Wal legalised homosexual sex between men over the age of 21 (and six years before Stland would do so), Crimal World raised a playful eyebrow at a (supposedly crimal) world where “the boys are like baby-faced girls” and “the girls are like baby-faced boys”. “It was a satire on androgyny, sexual ambivalence, posturg, pretendg to be gay or whatever, ” says Godw. I'm straight but I have a lot of gay iends and I'm very fortable a gay, or cross-genr i, always have been.

Suggtively gay. ” In the words of Bowie expert Chris O’Leary, he had “turned a gay-themed le to one that Vce Neil uld’ve wrten. A generatn of gay fans had felt liberated by Bowie’s claim to be bisexual a earlier.

I’M GAY AND I’M NOT A TOP OR A BOTTOM – I’M A ‘SI’

”I thought, 'He don't want now to be associated wh somethg that is too gay-iendly or suggtive'. A lot of people the mic bs were gay or at the very least bisexual, but the biggt taboo you uld break those days was to e out and say, y’know, ‘I swg both ways’.