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PETE'S GAY AFFAIRS REVELATN
Back when The Who emerged the 1960s, homosexualy was still illegal, and even after was fally legimised a urt of law, large swaths of society refed to accept . It was a dangero place to be openly gay. The mastermd behd The Who was quoted by The Daily Star newspaper’s Wired lumn as sayg: “Wh ‘I’m A Boy’ [1966 sgle] ’s the ia of masculy and the way that men are seen to be at a time when I often fet, to be homosexual, to be pansexual, as I thk I probably was, but not anymore.
” Addg: “I thk I fet that homosexualy was still illegal, so the adventur had to be uched vigt of humour and irony.
IS PETE TOWNSEND GAY
Alice Cooper later perfectly summarised the charm of the song, statg: “You have Pete’s sexual ambiguy gog on here — sounds like a gay song. ” Even London, the most open-md quarter of Bra durg this time, actg as the epicentre of liberal thkg, was still not a lotn that some felt safe as an open homosexual.
Townshend was quoted by The Daily Star newspaper’s Wired lumn as sayg: “Wh ‘I’m A Boy’ [1966 sgle] ’s the ia of masculy and the way that men are seen to be at a time when I often fet, to be homosexual, to be pansexual, as I thk I probably was, but not anymore. He ntued: “I thk I fet that homosexualy was still illegal, so the adventur had to be uched vigt of humour and irony.
Townshend creds the 1980 song “Empty Glass” as beg a song about ”g out, an acknowledgment of the fact that I’d had a gay life, and that I unrstood what gay sex was about. The Who's guarist Pete Townshend has told how he had homosexual liaisons his youth.