Rod Stewart: 'I was surround by gay men the 70s' | Rod Stewart | The Guardian

Contents:

• IS AL STEWART GAY?
• ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'
• BGRAPHY REVEALS STEWART 'PRUMED GAY'
• ALSTEWART

IS AL STEWART GAY?

Negative character tras uld be: Stormy aggrsn and Al Stewart gay or straight? We don't know for a fact whether Al Stewart is gay, bisexual or straight.

67% of all voters thk that Al Stewart is gay (homosexual), 27% voted for straight (heterosexual), and 6% like to thk that Al Stewart is actually bisexual. Jt like many other celebri, has always been speculated the issue - Al Stewart is gay? Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Al Stewart is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

Celebri such as Al Stewart have not admted they may be homosexual, this is bee they are fely not gay or bee they are and don't want to go public. Although Al Stewart has never said to be homosexual, beg a famo sger and homosexual is somethg unrstood as normal by the society. The mor go that he sucked off (and swallowed) so many sailors a gay bar San Diego that he land the hospal and need to have his stomach pumped.

ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'

Wasn't everyone at least a ltle b gay the ‘70s?

He fed the prs a story which, as a nsequence of an eveng spent orally servicg a gang of sailors a gay bar San Diego, I had been required to check to a hospal emergency room to have my stomach pumped...

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. Cocintally, the song’s 40th anniversary arriv durg gay pri month. A few h songs addrsg gay subjects had appeared before Stewart’s track.

BGRAPHY REVEALS STEWART 'PRUMED GAY'

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. The tale ends tragilly when, after leavg the theater one night, Geie ns to a gang of New Jersey kids who target him for beg gay and murr him.

”The sger says he had a sympathy to Geie’s story bee “I was surround by gay men at the time. I had a gay manager and a gay PR guy. Long John Baldry, who disvered me, was gay.

ALSTEWART

’”This superficial, glam-spired acceptance of homosexualy prevalent the era is reflected the song’s openg l: “In the days of changg ways/So-lled liberated days/A story to md of a iend of me...