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

Contents:

• WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
• “I’M NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE
• BOWIE: ‘I’M GAY AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN’
• WAS DAVID BOWIE GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY

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.

Gay life was not yet 3 years old. 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.

BOWIE: ‘I’M GAY AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN’

It didn't immediately fill me wh gay longgs - though wh some people did. "I was a gay 12 year-old jt startg to take an tert pop mic and I was knocked out, " he says. "And then me the famo moment on the show when David Bowie slung his arm around guarist Mick Ronson - which was simultaneoly blokey but also a b gay.

"A few months before the TOTP appearance, Bowie said on the rerd the Melody Maker that he was gay - or at least bisexual.

) Lookg back now, the statement was ambiguo but at the time was a brave thg to say - was only five years sce homosexual acts had been legalised Bra.

WAS DAVID BOWIE GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY

"He clearly knew his way around gay culture terms of s wrg and mic and visual art. It was a long time before anyone me along mic who was unambiguoly gay.