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SYD: 'THE BACKLASH OM THE GAY MUNY HURT MY FEELGS'
Syd Barrett was Gay.... The reason why they vered up the tth, is bee beg gay was not a marketable solutn for the tegry of pk kept the suatn quiet, blamg on mental illns as ual...
“That’s part of but, was also a prott song about crimalisg homosexualy. There was the time, a 2012 terview wh LA Weekly, that the openly gay artist qutned a number of high-profile female micians’ sexualy and said she hated the word “lbian”. Today she still sounds feated by the reactn and says that the “backlash om the gay muny hurt my feelgs”.
In 2010, they beme one of the most hyped groups around but also one of the most problematic, thanks to their homophobic slurs and csant cursg. When Syd’s parents eventually listened to one of their tracks, they were so appalled that they kicked her out of the hoe for a few hdsight, Syd wonrs whether she, the crew’s only female, was their “get out of jail” rd when accatns of homophobia were raised. ” She is quick to nfirm that her former crew are not homophobic, somethg she follows wh a short, sharp “Hah!