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

Contents:

• WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
• BOY GEE REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY, SAYS DAVID BOWIE HELPED HIM FEEL HE WASN'T ALONE
• WAS DAVID BOWIE GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY
• “I’M NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE
• 1983. DAVID BOWIE CHANG HIS MD ABOUT BEG GAY.
• DAVID BOWIE WIFE, DGHTER, CHILDREN, FAY, GAY, NET WORTH, DEATH, HEIGHT

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.

BOY GEE REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY, SAYS DAVID BOWIE HELPED HIM FEEL HE WASN'T ALONE

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

"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. Gay life was not yet 3 years old.

WAS DAVID BOWIE GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY

The Hunky Dory song “Queen Bch” is sung gay vernacular (“She’s so swishy her sat and tat! ”) om the perspective of a participant gay life and set to buzzg guar chords clearly cribbed om The Velvet Unrground, which earlier chronicled this genr-mutable world through s ti to Andy Warhol, who had a Hunky Dory tune wrten about him too.

And through his R&B rad ­succs wh “Young Amerins” and “Fame, ” Bowie bolstered dis’s early lk between clanste gay dance halls and ­fiantly upsle soul.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsDavid Bowie has died aged 69 after fightg ncer for 18 well as beg remembered for his mil talents, the legendary sger will also be remembered for refg sexualy for an entire David Bowie stepped onto the stage as Ziggy Stardt 1969, one of the world’s greatt gay ins was born and the lebooks were forever rewrten. Official Comg OutTwo years after marryg his first wife Angie 1970, Bowie told the world he was gay while on the cp of fame.

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

In a 1972 terview wh the now funct Melody Maker, Bowie clared, “I'm gay, and I always have been”. It’s worth notg that this was the same year which Melody Maker lled “the year of the transvte” and 700 people walked om Trafalgar Square to Hy Park the first Gay Pri march. Homosexualy had been legalised a few years prr and thgs were fast changg.

1983. DAVID BOWIE CHANG HIS MD ABOUT BEG GAY.

It didn’t immediately fill me wh gay longgs – though wh some people did.

Regardls of Bowie’s own sexualy, is clear that the superstar beme a revolutnary in for the gay muny. Gay, straight, bisexual...

DAVID BOWIE WIFE, DGHTER, CHILDREN, FAY, GAY, NET WORTH, DEATH, HEIGHT

Durg the lnch of his 1972 Ziggy Stardt mpaign, newlywed Bowie clared himself gay a magaze terview. “I’m gay and always have been, ” he flatly announced.

Comg out: Bowie clared himself gay durg the Ziggy Stardt era. Eher way, he paved the way for a generatn of young men and women to e out and, to this day, is champned as a gay rights’ hero.

’ It didn’t matter whether he was gay, straight or bisexual, he was a massive role mol. Mick Jagger was quick to dismiss the whole thg as "plete bbish, " and a public letter om David Bowie's lawyer stated that any "implitn that there was ever a gay affair between Mick Jagger and David Bowie is an absolute fabritn.