Boyzone sger Stephen Gately has announced that he is gay
Contents:
- 'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'
- BOYZONE SGER GATELY NFIRMS HE IS GAY BEFORE STORY N BE SOLD
- BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'
But equally, no one qutned too closely Boyzone star was - whisper - gay.
BOYZONE SGER GATELY NFIRMS HE IS GAY BEFORE STORY N BE SOLD
'Everybody knew that Stephen was gay, ' says Peter Lorae, former edor of Top of the Pops magaze.
We're not buyg Boyzone rerds any, at least, was the prevailg view an dtry still ltle ed to alg wh gay pop stars who weren't 'antly' - or jt flamboyantly - queer like Boy Gee, Jimmy Somerville, Pete Burns or Frankie Go To Hollywood. In this prelapsarian era of all of seven years ago, if a boy band member were revealed to be homosexual, the very fabric of the pop myth would be rent asunr. 'Boyzone Stephen: "I'm gay and I'm love"', screamed the ont-page headle.
BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
A secury guard on Boyzone's tour had gone to the papers, sellg a story that Gately was gay. 'Not that I wanted to go out to gay clubs and bars.