Bloc Party's Kele Okereke opens up about gay parentg and his new solo album 'Fatherhood' - Attu

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• BLOC PARTY'S KELE OKEREKE ON BEG GAY AND BLACK THE DANCE AND ROCK WORLDS
• BLOC PARTY’S KELE OKEREKE OPENS UP ABOUT GAY PARENTG AND HIS NEW SOLO ALBUM ‘FATHERHOOD’
• BLOC PARTY’S KELE OKEREKE WANTS TO BE KG OF THE GAY DIS

BLOC PARTY'S KELE OKEREKE ON BEG GAY AND BLACK THE DANCE AND ROCK WORLDS

Seemed like only yteryear that Bloc Party’s gay ontman Kele Okereke was a slenr smooth-shaven die rocker. But then he me out as gay and went om unual to unique.

A black, gay role mol die mic; was a label that, at the time, he didn’t love. I’ve always wanted to be a father, but as a gay man I didn’t know if was possible. I feel, as a gay man, as a gay sger, you n fall to a hab, fall to the trap, of thkg we’re not really allowed to exprs sire.

That as a gay man sgg about love and sire everythg has to be d, has to be kd of hidn. Beg able to sg hontly wh Olly, someone who I know unrstands this kd of stggle that gay sgers have to go through, is liberatg. Speakg about Olly, I would say that you’ve fely paved the way for a new generatn of young gay sgers.

BLOC PARTY’S KELE OKEREKE OPENS UP ABOUT GAY PARENTG AND HIS NEW SOLO ALBUM ‘FATHERHOOD’

I feel there are lots of gay sgers bands, or gay artists and that’s kd of great. I will say though that I’m not that exced about the fact that, of the mastream gay artists workg who I n thk of at the moment, [ don’t] seem as if many of them are takg the mantle and tryg to ph our muny forward.

I don’t see many gay artists the mastream beg that real, to be hont. There’s still a long way for gay artists to go terms of beg fully realised and beg able to exprs themselv the way that heterosexual artists do.

Do you have any fears around brgg your dghter up wh two dads; about how far society has e acceptg gay parents? "He's also focg on beg a gay role mol. The romantic duet was born when the two artists realized there is no “precent of any out gay micians sgg a love song to one another whout havg to hi behd s, ” Okereke told the Guardian.

BLOC PARTY’S KELE OKEREKE WANTS TO BE KG OF THE GAY DIS

“There are lots of gay acts that avoid g the term ‘he’ when sgg about same-sex sire, ” Okereke add. “It will jt be a ntral term, whereas Olly unrstands om what I read that there is a long way to go for gay micians beg able to scribe love and sire thentilly.

So I was very happy to sg a romantic duet wh him on my album, bee I uldn’t thk of a precent of any out gay micians sgg a love song to one another whout havg to hi behd s. Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, one of our favore gay die rockers, has a solo effort!