Hozier explas you don't have to be gay to see anti-gay doctratn as an issue worth sgg about
Contents:
- IS HOZIER GAY? IRISH SGER’S ‘TAKE ME TO CHURCH’ LEADS SOME TO MAKE ASSUMPTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
- “CAN I COME TO YOUR CHURCH? I’M GAY.”
IS HOZIER GAY? IRISH SGER’S ‘TAKE ME TO CHURCH’ LEADS SOME TO MAKE ASSUMPTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
Grammy-nomated Irish sger-songwrer Hozier says people assume he is gay bee of his anti-Roman Catholic church anthem "Take Me To Church" and the anti-homophobia vio which acpani . * take me to church about gay *
He add: 'To e the Church's own words, they view homosexualy as somethg that is trsilly disorred. LONDON (Rters) - Grammy-nomated Irish sger-songwrer Hozier says people assume he is gay bee of his anti-Roman Catholic church anthem “Take Me To Church” and the anti-homophobia vio which acpani the Uned Stat the song, wrten followg a break-up wh a girliend, has reached No.
2, and is the same posn the Brish sgl may also w Song of the Year at the Grammys next Sunday, when Hozier - om Bray, County Wicklow, and whose full name is Andrew Hozier-Byrne - is schled to perform wh Annie “Take Me To Church” vio, which has attracted nearly 100 ln YouTube views, picts two men kissg before they are attacked by a homophobic mob. “Y, people do make that assumptn (that I am gay), which is fe, but for me I don’t thk ’s the pot, you know what I mean.
“CAN I COME TO YOUR CHURCH? I’M GAY.”
* take me to church about gay *
"Hozier attracted further attentn wh the release of the song's Brendan Canty directed mic vio, which criciz the reprsn of gay people Rsia. " Specifilly, this song is agast homophobia; the mic vio shows a gay uple beg hunted and tortured by mask-wearg songwrer (who go by Hozier) supplements a blunt statement wh a clear metaphor his lyrics and a earthy, blu, and gospel sound his mic, which creas the tensy of his msage. " He claims that the church means s atten and attacks them for the thgs they do when those thgs go agast the church's, Hozier rerc his opn that sex (whether heterosexual or homosexual, his terviews show) is an act of love far better than beg beholn to a relign.
Hozier's IntentnIn an terview wh the Star Tribune, Hozier explas that his song is an attack on anti-homosexualy the church, pecially the Catholic church: “I’m not nmng the church or relign on the whole, jt that one policy [the anti-same sex marriage policy], which seems so wrong to me. ” Acrdg to an terview wh The Cut, the song is also about homophobia general and state opprsn of homosexuals Rsia.