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. 'Everybody knew that Stephen was gay, ' says Peter Lorae, former edor of Top of the Pops magaze.
BOYZONE SGER GATELY NFIRMS HE IS GAY BEFORE STORY N BE SOLD
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.
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. Was the outg of Gately about to overwhelm the promotnal mpaign, beg the gay tail that wagged the mass-market dog?
You eher say, y, I'm gay, or you say nothg at all. He says he alt 'many tim' wh havg a member of one of his boy bands - not necsarily any menned here - who was secretly gay.
BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
'I still thk, as a gay man myself, 's very difficult at an early stage to know your arse om your elbow and know where you're at sexually, ' he says.
Asked if he was a gay pop star, Tennant replied: 'No, I'm a pop star that happens to be gay. If he had admted to his homosexualy ' the early stag [of our reer]', Michael told me Febary 2004, ' would have ed , absolutely.
An avalanche of flowers and msag om his pop peers (Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys) and gay ins (Elton, Gee) rolled over Gately.