Exclive: Ricky Wilson says the bt thg about his glossy makeover sce appearg on The Voice is that he has garnered a gay followg.
Contents:
- ON THIS GAY DAY: REMEMBERG RICKY WILSON OM THE B-52’S
- RICKY WILSON REVEALS JOY AT GAY FOLLOWG AFTER THE VOICE TRANSFORMATN
- GAY INOGRAPHY: SHACKG UP WH THE B-52S
- DO BELIEVE : ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE ACTOR RICHARD WILSON REVEALS HE IS GAY
ON THIS GAY DAY: REMEMBERG RICKY WILSON OM THE B-52’S
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Punk their subversn of nventn and celebratn of the absurd, they were also fiantly fun at a time when Print Ronald Reagan wouldn’t so much as say the word “gay” or addrs the fact that AIDS was quickly beg a panmic — one that would claim Ricky as one of s earlit high-profile sualti. Four of the band’s five origal members did, fact, intify as LGBTQ: Ricky, Schneir and Strickland as gay men, and Pierson, who was volved wh a man until the early 2000s, is now married to a woman. “Back then, was lled GRID [Gay-Related Immune Deficiency].
RICKY WILSON REVEALS JOY AT GAY FOLLOWG AFTER THE VOICE TRANSFORMATN
When he was still a teenager Wilson shared wh Strickland that he was gay. At the time the disease was only known as AIDS, would be several years before scientists would disver the vis behd the growg number of aths occurrg amongst gay men.
They were unaware of his homosexualy or his illns. While Ricky Wilson never shared that he was gay wh most of his bandmat, sce his ath Fred Schnier has also publicly spoken about his own g out experience, and Kate Pierson has shared that she is bisexual.
When journalists asked Clarke if he was gay he rpond ‘No, jt dly cheerful. Ricky Wilson reveals joy at gay followg after The Voice transformatn. Ricky Wilson lov the gay fans he has acquired sce appearg on The Voice (Picture: BBC)Exclive: Ricky Wilson says the bt thg about his glossy makeover sce appearg on The Voice is that he has garnered a gay followg.
GAY INOGRAPHY: SHACKG UP WH THE B-52S
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It wasn't jt the big beehive hairdos and thrift-shop cloth that enared the bands to gay dienc. “I thk once we were more out as beg gay, publicly, our dienc have bee more gay, which to me is great, ” guarist and pose Keh Strickland told Toronto's fab Magaze.
DO BELIEVE : ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE ACTOR RICHARD WILSON REVEALS HE IS GAY
Even if you're not gay.
I always thought Prce was gay, I always thought David Bowie was gay.
When I was a kid, I thought Mick Jagger's gotta be gay. “We all went through the vastatg time of the AIDS crisis and I thk that galvanized to be more activists—AIDS activists … I thk asi om beg gay, one of the thgs the B-52s wanted to acplish was for people to embrace their difference and enurage people to be who they are and accept themselv. Go to askgaybros.