Vampire Weekend's Gay Member

Contents:

• VAMPIRE WEEKEND'S ROSTAM BATMANGLIJ TALKS ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY TO FANS
• VAMPIRE WEEKEND’S GAY MEMBER
• VAMPIRE WEEKEND MAN'S GAY ANTHEM

VAMPIRE WEEKEND'S ROSTAM BATMANGLIJ TALKS ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY TO FANS

11) was Natnal Comg Day, and to memorate the holiday, Vampire Weekend's eclectic keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij shared the story of how he publicly me out as gay to his fans via Instagram. Batmanglij not only discsed his personal experience wh cidg to e out, spe his current lack of jtifitn for dog so, as well as how he's pleased wh the social progrs that the gay muny has ma sce then. And was also the first time someone had been able to hear Diplomat’s Son om Contra, —a song I had started on my own w the tentn of tellg a gay story.

The timg felt right and I felt I uld tst Josh, so a phone terview wh him I talked about beg gay wh a journalist for the first time. Vampire Weekend’s multi-stmentalist, producer and (cintally) bt drsed member, Rostam Batmanglij, has crossed the thrhold between In and Out gog on-the-rerd about beg gay a recent terview wh Out the terview Batmanglij, who also shar the band’s songwrg duti – speaks about troducg a homosexual perspective to Vampire Weekend songs.

His song “Diplomat’s Son” off their latt album is about a gay relatnship, an example of the lyrics:. Batmanglij also “got gay” on the song “I Wanna Be Your Boyiend” for his mil si-project Disvery. I was disappoted when didn’t bee a gay anthem, but, you know, ’s not too late.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND’S GAY MEMBER

Rock band Vampire Weekend is makg headl for s much-publicized "Givg Up the Gun" mic vio starrg Joe Jonas and Jake Gyllenhaal as duelg tennis players, but keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij is also makg a splash of his own, nfirmg to Out magaze that he's gay.

Batmanglij talked wh the magaze about jectg a "homosexual perspective" to some of the band's songs and a track off the band's but album, "I Wanna Be Your Boyiend, " he says he had hoped would bee a gay anthem. "I was disappoted when didn't bee a gay anthem, but, you know, 's not too late. " Potent stuff, y, but while Vampire Weekend are diggg ep, the soul-searchg songs e packaged crisp, sun-soaked arrangements, large part thanks to the band's gay producer and multi-stmentalist, Rostam Batmanglij.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND MAN'S GAY ANTHEM

Rostam Batmanglij is Iranian (and gay), Ba is Italian – wh a fay nnectn to Steve Bcemi, no ls – and Koenig is Jewish and studied on a scholarship. "I don't know if me beg gay and Iranian is pletely eded out [of the band's prs story], " he says.

"I n pass as a lot of thgs: people meet me and don't thk I'm gay and speak about gay people a certa way or they don't know I'm Middle Eastern and do the same. Vampire Weekend keyboard player Rostam Batmanglij has wrten a "gay anthem".

The keyboard player publicly revealed he is gay, and told how he wrote the song wh his si project, Disvery, last year which he hop will one day bee an "anthem" among the gay muny. He's also openly gay.