How Pansy Divisn blazed a trail as one of rock's first openly gay bands: 'It seemed like there were a lot of people wag for somethg like to happen'

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LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached.

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Many stars (Elton John, Clay Aiken, Adam Lambert) have e out of the closet as gay, while others, like David Bowie, have later clarified or retracted siar statements.

But a later, March 2010, the Lat sger and former Menudo star posted a msage on his webse: "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, " he wrote.

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The theatril glam-rock sger seemed like a shoo- to w Amerin Idol's eighth season 2009, which would have ma him the show's first gay wner. " But Townshend – who was married to a woman at the time – clarified his remarks a 1994 terview wh Playboy, sayg, "I talked about my 'gay life, ' which – I meant – was actually about the iends that I've had who are gay … The terviewer kd of dotted the t's and crossed the i's and assumed that I was g out, which I wasn't at all. The Bloc Party sger spent years avoidg reporters' qutns about his sexualy, until fally revealg he is gay a 2010 terview wh Butt magaze.

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"My parents are super-Catholic, and they e om a culture Nigeria where there weren't any visible gay people who were out and were happy, " Okereke said. Eighti pop star Tiffany accintally outed New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight on a January 2011 episo of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live – sayg she dated Knight s ago, and that he "beme gay later. "Apparently the prerequise to beg a gay public figure is to appear on the ver of a magaze wh the ptn 'I am gay, '" Knight wrote.

"One thg I've found of people the public eye, eher you're a womanizer or you've got to be gay, " Aiken told Rollg Stone 2003.

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