“I’m not gay!” How Bowie backtracked on his bisexualy for Let's Dance | Lour

Contents:

• WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
• “I’M NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE
• BOWIE: ‘I’M GAY AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN’
• WAS DAVID BOWIE GAY? RUMORS OF HIM 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 NOT GAY!” HOW BOWIE BACKTRACKED ON HIS BISEXUALY FOR LET'S DANCE

“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.

"I'm gay, " clared David Bowie, "and always have been, even when I was David Jon. “I’m gay, ” clared David Bowie, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon. The Brish Parliament had only crimalized homosexualy 1967; post-­Stonewall U.

BOWIE: ‘I’M GAY AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN’

Gay life was not yet 3 years old.

WAS DAVID BOWIE GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY

The Hunky Dory song “Queen Bch” is sung gay vernacular (“She’s so swishy her sat and tat! ”) om the perspective of a participant gay life and set to buzzg guar chords clearly cribbed om The Velvet Unrground, which earlier chronicled this genr-mutable world through s ti to Andy Warhol, who had a Hunky Dory tune wrten about him too. And through his R&B rad ­succs wh “Young Amerins” and “Fame, ” Bowie bolstered dis’s early lk between clanste gay dance halls and ­fiantly upsle soul.

It had jt eight songs and, of them, the tle track and Cat People had already been released, Cha Girl was a new versn of a song he'd wrten wh Iggy Pop 1977, and Crimal World was a ver versn of another 1977 release by Brish band Metro – a song that had been banned by the BBC for allns to gay sex. “He is not gay, whatever he may have blurted out 1972, ” wrote terviewer Kurt Lor, “nor was he ever a transvte, thank you. Released as a sgle 1977, Metro’s Crimal World had been banned by the BBC for s ‘sexual ntent’: allns to cross-drsg and gay sex.