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ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'
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Its subject uldn’t be more horribly relevant, given this past weekend’s massacre years ago this Saturday (18 June), Stewart released The Killg of Geie Parts I and II, the first major pop song to tell the tale of a gay man who died, part, bee of his sexual om solely a sad tale, Geie also ranked as the first chart h to prent a gay man wh not only empathy but admiratn.
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Cocintally, the song’s 40th anniversary arriv durg gay pri month. A few h songs addrsg gay subjects had appeared before Stewart’s track. Before Geie, however, there had never been an earnt song portrayg the hardship and joy of a gay person’s life for a mass dience.
Stewart says that 1976, he didn’t tend to wre a gay story per se. “If someone said to me, ‘S down and wre a song about a gay man, ’ would have ightened the daylights out of me, ” he tells the Guardian. Geie’s narrative follows a gay kid om a small town who’s rejected by his parents, g him to flee to New York Cy where he be the toast of the town.