Marc Almond the inic gay sger-songwrer and mician synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell an terview wh The Stland Herald talks about his reer…
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- SOFT CELL’S MARC ALMOND: ‘I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE’S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE’
- MARC ALMOND: 'I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE'S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE'
SOFT CELL’S MARC ALMOND: ‘I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE’S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE’
Marc Almond the inic gay sger-songwrer and mician synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell an terview wh The Stland Herald talks about his reer, personal life, and thoughts about how the gay muny is broken by LGBT partmentalizatn. “And even though homosexualy was legal, was name only. “But now I feel [gay] people are very divid.
I don’t thk there is such a thg as a gay muny anymore. “I got a lot of jealoy, hatred, homophobia. The Top of the Pops appearanc were que extreme – I’d wear a gay leather p and huge false eyelash.
Freddie, I thk, loved havg this great succs that had given him rich beyond his wilst dreams, and uld all end a moment if anyone thought that he uld actually be gay. ‘The Top of the Pops appearanc were que extreme – I’d wear a gay leather p and huge false eyelash’ (Photo: F Costello/Redferns)“[Durg] those early years New York, I kd of dabbled wh every dg, ” he says. "Tated Love" Length: 9:00Back 1981, the Brish duo Soft Cell rerd a 12" dance disc about a spurned lover, "Tated Love" that quickly beme a favore world wi gay and straight dance clubs.
MARC ALMOND: 'I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE'S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE'
Songfacts®:This is about a gay man who is still the closet and nnot acknowledge his lover. Soft Cell lead sger Marc Almond is gay and the band had a large gay first thg Soft cell volist Marc Almond did after "Tated Love" was to buy a flat on Brewer Street Soho, central London.
“We don’t talk about him anymore, ” he says of the man who once turned up at his son’s school, dnk, and asked the teacher, ont of the class, if his son was homosexual. It’s reflected when he talks about growg up a young gay man.