“I remember distctly the msage I got om the top down was that beg gay was trimental to sal."
Contents:
- SAVAGE GARN'S DARREN HAY SAYS MIC 'SAVED MY LIFE' AFTER YEARS OF DENYG HIS GAY INTY
- ONE OF SAVAGE GARN GAY MARRI HIS BOYIEND
- SAVAGE GARN: DARREN HAY TOLD HE 'LOOKED GAY' MIC VIO
SAVAGE GARN'S DARREN HAY SAYS MIC 'SAVED MY LIFE' AFTER YEARS OF DENYG HIS GAY INTY
It's OK, we know what you're thkg. You're upset that Oprah Wey isn't gay, aren't you? We know, 's hard to take. but here's a kd of miseratn - Darren Hay om Savage Garn is gay. Oh e on, like you didn't know. You mt remember Savage Garn - somehow, 23 ln of you bought their Affirmatn album and billns more of your will have suffered through appotments at hairdrsers while their songs blasted your eardms. Anyway - Darren Hay, the Savage Garn sger, has e out to his fans. And jt to make kd of official, Darren Hay married his boyiend. A month ago. * savage garden gay singer *
"I n't wa for the day when young gay teenagers don't have to fear for their liv bee they attend a rally for their rights. Not a separate one for gay people, or a sub le for a 'partnership registratn' or any of the permeatns that same sex relatnships have been referred to the past.
It was jt one le where we stood wh gay and straight upl all equal unr the was credibly emotnal for me: I uld not help but remark this was the first time my life I tly felt I was standg the same le as everyone else. I n't wa for the day when young gay teenagers don't have to fear for their liv bee they attend a rally for their rights.
ONE OF SAVAGE GARN GAY MARRI HIS BOYIEND
The 50-year-old openly gay sger penned an emotnal op-ed for the HuffPost on July 1, revealg that stggl he had g to terms wh his sexualy led him to "the brk of suici. After the group disband 2001, Hay — who was married to ex-wife Colby Taylor om 1994 to 2000 — eventually me out as gay. But the HuffPost say is the first time he has ndidly addrsed the severe mental health stggl he once faced due to beg gay.
Home, Hay looks at ease a nim shirt as the fluorcent letters of the word “homosexual” peek out om jt behd him. It’s an apt emblem for the 50-year-old pop-rock sger — “homosexual” directly referenc his oft-discsed sexualy, but also happens to be the tle of his first solo album more than a .
On first listen, Homosexual (out Friday through Powred Sugar Productns) sounds like an ecstatic nostalgia trip — divg to early-2000s dance-pop wh wild abandon, Hay sounds like a man pursug pism s purt, queert form. Strikg out on his own, Hay watched as the homophobia om his team went om beg “secretive and tentnally kept om me” to beg much more overt “horrors.
SAVAGE GARN: DARREN HAY TOLD HE 'LOOKED GAY' MIC VIO
“I had an ex-manager tell me recently, ‘Nobody at the label had a problem that you were gay — was jt how that would affect your reer mercially.
That was their problem, not the fact that you’re gay, '” he rells, grimacg.