Bloc Party's Kele Okereke Wants to Be Kg of the Gay Dis - Queerty

Contents:

• 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.

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

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.

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

Speakg about Olly, I would say that you’ve fely paved the way for a new generatn of young gay sgers. 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.