No Bce Sprgsteen Is Not Gay, Instead He Married Twice

Contents:

• IS BCE SPRGSTEEN GAY?
• NO BCE SPRGSTEEN IS NOT GAY, INSTEAD HE MARRIED TWICE
• BCE SPRGSTEEN CELEBRAT MARV GAYE, JACKIE WILSON, AND THE COMMODOR ‘NIGHTSHIFT’ MIC VIO

IS BCE SPRGSTEEN GAY?

Bce is far om gay; some might argue he is one of the straightt men alive. A quick poke around the Inter reveals as much: the amic texts readg his work as “homoerotic or queerly suggtive, ” as Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel wr; the “We’re Here and We’re Queerg Bce Sprgsteen” roundup at one of the longt-nng s for queer women, Autostraddle; the queer wrer Tennsee Jon’s short story llectn Deliver Me From Nowhere, based on the album Nebraska; and of urse, the many, many queer Bce Sprgsteen z, om Bee the Boss Belongs to Us to Butt Sprgsteen. Wrer Muna Mire once asked Twter, “Can anyone name a straight man that qualifi as [a gay in]?

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NO BCE SPRGSTEEN IS NOT GAY, INSTEAD HE MARRIED TWICE

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BCE SPRGSTEEN CELEBRAT MARV GAYE, JACKIE WILSON, AND THE COMMODOR ‘NIGHTSHIFT’ MIC VIO

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To bat what Sprgsteen labeled the “veiled racism and homophobia of the anti-dis movement, ” he wrote “Protectn” for Donna Summer.