“I’m not gay!” How Bowie backtracked on his bisexualy for Let's Dance | Lour

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• WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
• “I’M NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE

WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y

Bowie, 69, was not jt a pop idol but a the days sce his ath, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr fans have shared how the rocker fluenced their liv and helped brg queer culture to the mastream the 1960s and 1970s. “Feelg those sentiments was important, pecially as a gay youth who was not out at the time. “I’m gay, ” he said to the journalist Michael Watts 1972, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon, ” his name at years later, an article for Rollg Stone tled “Straight Time, ” Mr.

Bowie, who married two women and had two children, would still face the qutn terviews years later: Was he gay or bisexual? ” In other words, he was not a mpaigner for gay rights, but Mr.

Lowr ntued, “but, pecially at the begng of his reer, he was regnizably ‘gay.

“I’M NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE

"I'm gay, " clared David Bowie, "and always have been, even when I was David Jon.

“I’m gay, ” clared David Bowie, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon. The Brish Parliament had only crimalized homosexualy 1967; post-­Stonewall U.

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