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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.