Tribut have been paid to gay mician Andy Fraser, famo for the legendary 1970’s h All Right Now, whose ath was announced yterday.
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Andy Fraser, the HIV-posive openly gay bassist of the rock band Free, died at age 62 after a battle wh ncer and AIDS. * andy fraser gay *
It’s a foc that’s been hard won, om a 20-year battle wh his reputatn as a ntrol eak, the memori of a band that spl before achievg all they uld, and a liftyle change that nearly killed ntracted the HIV vis durg a year of wild, gay abandon a motorhome.
“Part of g out gay was to tegrate nflictg areas of my life. One of the few dat he n remember is May 7, 1976, the day he arrived California to Ri found herself movg towards Eastern spirualism, an creasgly solary Fraser realised that, spe the hors of groupi that had surround him his Free days, he wasn’t terted havg sex wh first gay experience was wh a man who had recently end a relatnship wh movie star Richard Chamberla. ”When Free saw an obvly gay person the street, he rells, “ was ually Simon who’d make some homophobic ment.