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THE 10 GAYT SMHS SONGS, RANKED

Although he is famoly celibate, the ontman's more suggtive early lyrics sparked speculatn that he was gay. In "Handsome Devil, " om the band's send mo, Morrissey proclaims, "A boy the bh/Is worth two the hand" (via Geni) ver of the Smhs' eponymo but album featur a cropped still of Joe Dallandro as a gay male prostute the Andy Warhol-produced 1968 movie "Flh. In a Gay Tim article tled "The God That Failed, " Richard Smh hypothized that Morrissey drifted away om queer them once the Smhs found stratospheric succs.

"Once beme clear that the Smhs were sted not for the origally tend die cultdom, but for stardom, a large lyril retreat and rethk was swiftly unrtaken, " Smh wrote, as quoted David Bret's "Morrissey: Sndal and Passn, " addg, "None-the-ls, whilst his songs then beme non-genr specific to a man, they still only stood up to a homosexual readg... Like anyone reasonably well-raised gay culture, I uld pick up the referenc, allns, and signs... "Unfortunately, I am not homosexual, " he subsequently wrote a note posted on fanse Te to You (via The Guardian).

The Smhs' sophomore album, "Meat is Murr, " ma a clear statement regardg Morrissey's stance on eatg animals. In a statement to a Morrissey fan se, Te to You, the sger said over the weekend, “Unfortunately, I am not homosexual.

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Today Gay History: Long Live Queen Morrissey.

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