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Contents:

• WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
• WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
• BOY GEE REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY, SAYS DAVID BOWIE HELPED HIM FEEL HE WASN'T ALONE
• 1983. DAVID BOWIE CHANG HIS MD ABOUT BEG GAY.

WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y

Bowie, 69, was not jt a pop idol but a the days sce his ath, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr fans have shared how the rocker fluenced their liv and helped brg queer culture to the mastream the 1960s and 1970s. “Feelg those sentiments was important, pecially as a gay youth who was not out at the time. “I’m gay, ” he said to the journalist Michael Watts 1972, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon, ” his name at years later, an article for Rollg Stone tled “Straight Time, ” Mr.

Bowie, who married two women and had two children, would still face the qutn terviews years later: Was he gay or bisexual? ” In other words, he was not a mpaigner for gay rights, but Mr. Lowr ntued, “but, pecially at the begng of his reer, he was regnizably ‘gay.

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WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y

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On this day, January 22nd, 1972, David Bowie nducted his famo terview wh mic journalist Mick Watts, which he me out as homosexual, statg: “[I’m] gay, and always have been”.

BOY GEE REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY, SAYS DAVID BOWIE HELPED HIM FEEL HE WASN'T ALONE

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1983. DAVID BOWIE CHANG HIS MD ABOUT BEG GAY.

One uld perhaps unrstand Bowie’s statement that he was gay, or at least bisexual 1972, but the years that followed, Bowie created personas that were more tradnally mascule meanour and appearance such as the Th Whe De or the Young Amerins era Bowie. This ma people beg to doubt the tth behd Bowie’s closet parture 1972, leadg to nclns that was the character Ziggy Stardt who had been homosexual and that perhaps he had now moved on. ’ It didn’t matter whether he was gay, straight or bisexual, he was a massive role mol.