"I'm gay," clared David Bowie, "and always have been, even when I was David Jon.
Contents:
- OVERLOOKED NO MORE: JOBRIATH, OPENLY GAY GLAM ROCKER THE ’70S
- GROWG UP GAY TO A GLAM ROCK SOUNDTRACK
OVERLOOKED NO MORE: JOBRIATH, OPENLY GAY GLAM ROCKER THE ’70S
Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Alice Cooper send signals to a semi-closeted gay teen the ’70s. * glam rock is gay *
Through song lyrics and attus towards female followers, pecially towards the so-lled groupi, var groups and artists, regardls of their cloth and makp, ntued to exhib macho attus, eher by dismissg women’s experienc, ridiculg the elements of the other sex, assumg homophobic postur or sexualizg every female figure.
Ladi and gentlemen, gays and theys, prepare to have your fac melted off by the bombastic rock ‘n’ roll theatrics of The Srlet Opera, your next mil obssn.
" All of which should e as no surprise to fans who remember Townshend's 1980 solo h "Rough Boys" (above), which Rollg Stone lled "the most overtly homoerotic song his talog. Maybe even the most overtly homoerotic song anyone's 1970s[youtube expand=1 se_id=25879312]Alice Buhr, June Millgton, and Nickey Barclay of FannyThe rock band Fanny's importance the annals of popular mic nnot be overstated. A New York Tim review of the book claimed that durg the time of the Runaways both Wt, who died 2006, and Jett "were bisexual, if not gay.
GROWG UP GAY TO A GLAM ROCK SOUNDTRACK
They were gay and I wasn't.