Boyzone sger Gately nfirms he is gay before story n be sold – The Irish Tim

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.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

'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.

'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.