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prince is gay

It is still unknown whether this legendary sger Prce was gay, bisexual, straight, or of any other sexual orientatn.

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PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT

* prince is gay *

Prce: Gay In, Whether He Wanted to Be or NotHow to rencile his later nservatism wh the sexual liberatn he stood for earlier life? Mike Blake / RtersIn 2008, the New Yorker wrer Claire Hoffman asked Prce what he thought of social issu like gay marriage and abortn. The “homophobe” label attached self to him, acpanied by the bter shock of many fans.

“The pop star who ma his name on his effete, androgyno ‘Is he GAY or not? But the years after that saw Prce actively avoid talkg about gay rights, and some wrers saw subtle homophobia a few of his later lyrics and qutn of how someone whose art once seemed to preach the very ia of “stickg wherever and dog wh whatever”—wh magaz, etc. Stewart go on to wre about how even though Prce’s lyril viewpot was almost always heterosexual—his songs were about men wantg women and women wantg men—he was unaaid of beg lled feme, gay, or perverted.

“Controversy, ” famoly, sniffed at the simplistic qutns directed at him: “Am I black or whe, am I straight or gay?

WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

’ Gay marriage, whatever. She said, "Are you gay?

"Rnchy Prce was actually a nservative Christian who opposed gay marriage, " read one headle published Friday the Washgton Post. "Prce's alleged anti-gay stance is bafflg, for good reason, " asserted the onle women's magaze Btle. If a man has sex wh other men, don't that make him gay?

In the article, Prce was scribed as potg at his Bible while renouncg Democrat and Republin approach to gay marriage legislatn — a quote his mp hotly ntted. "Idk about his genr inty, but he was agast gay marriage, " one menter rpond. An even more ample body of lerature monstrat that sexual orientatn — a person's self-reported inty on a sle of straight to gay — is fluid; n change over time.

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