JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD On His Life As Gay Man: 'In Some Parts Of The World, People Like Me Get Thrown Off Buildgs'

Contents:

• ‘IT IS A GREAT TO BE GAY,’ JUDAS PRIT SGER ROB HALFORD SAYS
• JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS
• JUDAS PRIEST'S ROB HALFORD ON HIS LIFE AS GAY MAN: 'IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD, PEOPLE LIKE ME GET THROWN OFF BUILDGS'
• JUDAS PRIT'S GAY SGER ROB HALFORD ON PLAYG RSIA: 'I AM THE RABOW FLAG OF METAL'
• JUDAS PRIEST'S IAN HILL: 'WE KNEW' ROB HALFORD WAS GAY BEFORE HE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED IT
• GAY LEAD SGER OF JUDAS PRIT RELEAS AUTOBGRAPHY, ‘CONFS’
• ROB HALFORD RELLS WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY

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

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. 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. 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 ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS

Judas Prit‘s Rob Halford has marked Pri month by reflectg on the moment he me out as gay on televisn. “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. It was one of those gay sharp tak, ‘Oh my God, he’s e out.’.

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

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.”. 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.

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

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.

JUDAS PRIEST'S IAN HILL: 'WE KNEW' ROB HALFORD WAS GAY BEFORE HE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED IT

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. It’s wonrful to be gay bee there are so many nflictg views about this particular thg that we have today.

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

Rob Halford's Judas Prit bandmat knew the ontman was gay long before he me out 1998, but they kept his secret to protect the band's image. "We always knew Rob was gay, " Downg said on a recent appearance on the "No F**k' Regrets Wh Robb Flynn" podst.

ROB HALFORD RELLS WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY

"What were the chanc of him beg gay (or, if he was, of admtg )?

And, of urse, the overridg fear that was to lim my existence for s: What if got out that I was gay and fans didn't want anythg to do wh a band onted by a queer, and killed Judas Prit stone ad?

The gay, leather-lovg sger reveals his “totally ndid” memoir — “Confs: The Autobgraphy, ” out Tuday — that California ps vered up for his long-ago arrt for “public cency” at a Venice Beach rtroom.