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Contents:
- ROB HALFORD ON BEG A CLOSETED GAY MAN IN THE '80S GLAM SCENE: "IT'S LIKE, 'AM I MISSG SOMETHG HERE?'"
- MEET SMOKEY, THE GREATT '70S GAY GLAM-ROCK BAND YOU NEVER HEARD OF
- ROB HALFORD REFLECTS ON EXPERIENCE AS CLOSETED GAY MAN DURG 1980S ANDROGYNO GLAM METAL ERA
- GROWG UP GAY TO A GLAM ROCK SOUNDTRACK
ROB HALFORD ON BEG A CLOSETED GAY MAN IN THE '80S GLAM SCENE: "IT'S LIKE, 'AM I MISSG SOMETHG HERE?'"
* glam rock era gay *
Judas Prit volist Rob Halford famoly me out as a gay man durg an terview on MTV 1998. Now a new terview wh Ultimate Classic Rock, Halford exprsed some nfn about the fact that beg gay was ls accepted the metal scene at a time where glam rock was kg and "guys looked like girls. "And I uld never que figure that out, bee of the homophobic stuff that was gog on the '80s.
MEET SMOKEY, THE GREATT '70S GAY GLAM-ROCK BAND YOU NEVER HEARD OF
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. * glam rock era gay *
And then me as a closeted gay man, 's like, 'Am I missg somethg here?
Bars that we might intify today as “gay” sprang up the big metropolis, and there was an explosn of female impersonators that created a New York drag scene not dissiar to today’s. Of urse, no summary of pre-war gay stars would be plete whout mentn of Noël Coward, who would go on to be one of the pla’s greatt stars.
The social reprsn that reigned after the end of the Send World War meant gay performers had to tread refully not to offend sensive sensibili.
ROB HALFORD REFLECTS ON EXPERIENCE AS CLOSETED GAY MAN DURG 1980S ANDROGYNO GLAM METAL ERA
But the biggt ternatnal gay star of the era immediately leadg to rock n roll was Liberace.
GROWG UP GAY TO A GLAM ROCK SOUNDTRACK
The tradn of soft, accsible pop ran through the 50s and early 60s wh gay stars such as Johnny Mathis, Lley Gore, and Tab Hunter hidn tightly wh their rpective closets, but the electrifyg revolutn of rock’n’roll was makg wav. As the 60s started to swg, many of the biggt stars of the era were steered by gay managers and producers, cludg Brian Epste (The Beatl), Joe Meek (The Honeybs), and Larry Parn (Billy Fury). It was the 70s, and the years followg the Stonewall Rts and the birth of the morn gay liberatn movement, that saw more dramatic evince that LGBTQ artists, and those that supported them, uld be more nfint at last.