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Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford rells the story of when he me out as gay durg an MTV terview 1998.

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‘IT IS A GREAT TO BE GAY,’ JUDAS PRIT SGER ROB HALFORD SAYS

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Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford has always lived a loud and proud heavy metal life, but only 1998 durg an MTV terview did he bee the first metal in to announce he is gay. Halford is now phg back agast the way the life-or-ath reali are often mimized or even dismissed.“I thk that every gay person has a bigger story to tell than jt, 'Hello, I'm out, 's me,'” Halford, who turned 69 last month, told me a phone terview ahead of the book’s publitn on Tuday.

JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS

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He wanted to sce Iron Main sger Pl Di’Anno, and he sported bandanas onstage that were a lor-d ve to gay fans.But amid the lorful stori are darker moments, both terms of dtry algs and pecially keepg himself closeted for so long.

JUDAS PRIEST'S ROB HALFORD ON HIS LIFE AS GAY MAN: 'IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD, PEOPLE LIKE ME GET THROWN OFF BUILDGS'

Halford was born 1951, and homosexualy was illegal the U.K. While a few mastream metal ontwomen like Otep and Lzzy Hale have been open recent years about beg gay or bisexual, Halford remas the only major gay male metal in.Metal fans are often attracted to the aggrsive and theraptic nature of the genre — ’s a great way to let out pent-up tratn and feel empowered — and many skew more to the right than some of their ins. Judas Prit‘s Rob Halford has marked Pri month by reflectg on the moment he me out as gay on televisn.

JUDAS PRIT'S GAY SGER ROB HALFORD ON PLAYG RSIA: 'I AM THE RABOW FLAG OF METAL'

“And I said somethg to the effect of, ‘Well, speakg as a gay man, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.’ And then I heard the producer’s clipboard bounce on the floor.

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It was one of those gay sharp tak, ‘Oh my God, he’s e out.’. I thk if I’d…I still say today, if I’d have really thought this through, like today’s the day I’m gog to e out, maybe I even wouldn’t… maybe I may not have e out per se, bee ’s still a big moment for so many of , wh a close iend, wh someone at school, wh Mum and Dad, wh whomever, to actually say, ‘Hey, I’m a gay guy or I’m a gay girl.’ It’s jt a big, big al. “So wow, was jt this enormo feelg of eedom, and the prsure was gone, and there’s no more talkg behd your back bee you have all this ammunn of power as a gay person now, as an out gay person.

“Mentally, on top of beg the gay man the closet, I had all the extra piec piled onto my life at that time.”.

GAY LEAD SGER OF JUDAS PRIT RELEAS AUTOBGRAPHY, ‘CONFS’

In an terview wh, Judas Prit‘s inic ontman Rob Halford talked about his sexual orientatn and clarified whether beg gay was somethg that uld be chosen or changed. As you may know, the legendary volist Rob Halford has been openly and proudly gay sce the very first time he announced his homosexualy on the MTV show 1998.

Halford has been a strong advote of gay rights and often shows his support for the e on social media.

ROB HALFORD RELLS WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY

Recently, Rob Halford joed an terview wh and rpond to a mon prejudice agast homosexual people suggtg they uld actually choose or change their sexual orientatn.

In his reply to the qutn askg what he was thkg about those people who claimed that beg gay was a choice and not somethg that you were born wh, Halford said they were pletely wrong about . Furthermore, Rob talked about how great was to be gay and claimed once aga was somethg he born wh, fely not a choice by statg:. “It’s great to be gay.

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