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PETE'S GAY AFFAIRS REVELATN
Townshend creds the 1980 song “Empty Glass” as beg a song about ”g out, an acknowledgment of the fact that I’d had a gay life, and that I unrstood what gay sex was about. The Who's guarist Pete Townshend has told how he had homosexual liaisons his youth. ' I ' m 57, I ' ve got a young girliend, I'm not gay.
Back when The Who emerged the 1960s, homosexualy was still illegal, and even after was fally legimised a urt of law, large swaths of society refed to accept . It was a dangero place to be openly gay.
The mastermd behd The Who was quoted by The Daily Star newspaper’s Wired lumn as sayg: “Wh ‘I’m A Boy’ [1966 sgle] ’s the ia of masculy and the way that men are seen to be at a time when I often fet, to be homosexual, to be pansexual, as I thk I probably was, but not anymore.