Is Limahl Gay? Come and disver what has been said lately about this and what is Limahl sayg about this.
Contents:
- POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S
- TIME TO KAJA-GO-GO: LIMAHL PONRS WHY "GAY VOTE" WAS TOO SHY TO BACK HIM AS HE LEAV JUNGLE
- IS LIMAHL GAY?
POP MIC COULD USE ANOTHER DE AS 'GAY' AS THE '80S
* limahl gay *
Now openly gay, Limahl once shared a flat wh Pl Gambacci (who is also thor of the first official Kajagoogoo bgraphy, songbook and photobook), leadg to mours the tabloid prs that the two were lovers.
TIME TO KAJA-GO-GO: LIMAHL PONRS WHY "GAY VOTE" WAS TOO SHY TO BACK HIM AS HE LEAV JUNGLE
Y, he's gay and I'm gay and people put two and two together and got five. Rex and The Sweet as well as solo superstar David Bowie, spe his claratn of gayns Melody Maker Duran, Depeche Mo, Spand Ballet and their new-wave peers were an entirely different story.
They were teen idols (unlike the glam rockers) and, Ant's se, a bona fi sex symbol, settg fashn trends while challengg the strict fn of masculy and what "gay" and "straight" were supposed to look like.
It was, a sense, the first metrosexual didn't take one look at the members of Spand Ballet the vio for "To Cut a Long Story Short, " their 1980 but sgle, and jt assume that they were gay?
IS LIMAHL GAY?
Didn't those so-lled "New Romantics" tick all the gay stereotyp? Among the possibly rrect assumptns: 1) There was Band Aid/Live Aid-style mararie among the pop acts; 2) one big h set them up for life; and 3) a lot of them were boys who liked 's not to say that '80s new wave didn't have s gay ntgent. I hadn't cid if I was 100 percent gay, and wasn't an issue.
"I wasn't embarrassed about beg gay, but my role as Limahl, my pop star role, had to be more enigmatic, " he says. "I didn't want to start talkg about gay sex and gays 1983 when most of our followg was teenage girls.
Of urse, lookg back, I n realize anybody wh a modicum of life experience would have said, 'He's gay -- he jt don't know yet. Perhaps that's why Boy Gee managed to bee a bankable ternatnal superstar, why Marc Almond logged a strg of UK hs, and out of Soft Cell, and why "Smalltown Boy, " Bronski Beat's gay anthem, went to number 3 the UK and nearly land the U.