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• A LOT PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW IF COLDPLAY AND CHRIS MART ARE GAY AFTER WATCHG THE SUPER BOWL
• CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY
• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• COLDPLAY DUDG DUNG LGBT, CHRIS MART NGAKU SEMPAT HOMOFOBIA KARENA DIEJEK GAY
• GAY RIGHTS HAD A BIG MOMENT AT THE SUPER BOWL
• COLDPLAY ONTMAN CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS HOMOPHOBIC & THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY
• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID
• SO IS COLDPLAY REALLY THAT "GAY"
• GAY RIGHTS HAD A BIG MOMENT AT THE SUPER BOWL

A LOT PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW IF COLDPLAY AND CHRIS MART ARE GAY AFTER WATCHG THE SUPER BOWL

Chris Mart has revealed that he qutned his sexualy as a teenager - but his own homophobia ma him supprs his Coldplay ontman explaed to Rollg Stone magaze how beg bullied at boardg school and explorg Evangelil Christiany ma him fear thoughts that he might be, 42, said: “When I went to boardg school I walked a b funny and I bounced a b, and I was also very homophobic bee I was like, ‘If I’m gay, I’m pletely f****ed for eterny’ and I was a kid disverg Mart has opened up to Rollg Stone magaze about stggl wh his sexualy (Cred: AP)Read more: Coldplay's Chris Mart 'happy to be a human punchbag'“‘Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I n’t be this’ so I was terrified and I walked a b funny.

“And I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gone for their thg and, for a few years, they would very much say, ‘You’re fely gay, ’ que a full-on manner, que aggrsively tellg me that and was weird for me for a few years. “I don’t know [if I’m gay] and even if I am, I n’t be bee ’s wrong… If I am, I n’t be.

I was jt, ‘So what if I’m gay? Maybe was growg up a b and havg a b more exposure to the world - thkg, ‘A lot of my hero are gay, ’ or whatever. A lot people wanted to know if Coldplay and Chris Mart are gay after watchg the Super Bowl.

CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY

Is Coldplay gay.

Coldplay gay.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

Is Chris Mart gay.

Chris Mart gay. Is the lead sger of Coldplay gay. Coldplay gay band.

So why was everyone tryg to fd out if Chris Mart, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland abd Will Champn were gay? (Picture: Getty Image)The rabow is obvly an inic symbol of gay pri, and actually, was a pretty bold statement for Coldplay to make nsirg the big opposn to gay marriage there has been Ameri.

COLDPLAY DUDG DUNG LGBT, CHRIS MART NGAKU SEMPAT HOMOFOBIA KARENA DIEJEK GAY

Not only that, the NFL has historilly not been too warm to homosexual players g out.

GAY RIGHTS HAD A BIG MOMENT AT THE SUPER BOWL

The first openly gay football star, Michael Sam, only joed the league 2014, when he was drafted by the St. In a new terview wh Rollg Stone, the Coldplay sger nfsed that he was bullied for seemg gay when he was boardg about 21 mut to the more than half-hour chat, Mart began to discs his sexualy. In an answer eerily siar to the first verse of "Same Love, " Mart told the terviewer, "When I went to boardg school, I walked a b funny and I bounced a b" and so people would tell him "you're fely gay.

" "It was weird for me, " he "Fix You" sger add that he was raised a strict relig hoehold that tght him that sners would burn Hell and that ma him terrified of beg gay.

He said "was also very homophobic" at the time. "[B]ee I was like 'If I'm gay, I'm pletely fucked for eterny, " he a few years, Mart stggled wh this ia. While he personally didn't thk he was gay, everyone around him was tellg him he was -- and that was enough to threaten his eternal soul.

COLDPLAY ONTMAN CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS HOMOPHOBIC & THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY

Thankfully, Mart soon realized there's nothg wrong wh beg gay. Mart realized some of his hero, cludg Elton John, were gay, and that the world was a lot bigger and more diverse than he had realized.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

After that, when bulli would tell him he was gay, he started to rpond by sayg, "Yeah, so what?

COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID

"I'm not sure if I subscribe to all of this particular relign, " he thought to ma fun of for beg gay as a teen sucks, believe me -- I've been there. I'm sure be easier after you realize you're not gay and stops, but still. "When I went to boardg school, I walked a b funny and I bounced a b and I was also very homophobic bee I was like, 'If I’m gay, I’m pletely (expletive) for eterny, ' and I was a kid like disverg sexualy, " Mart said.

SO IS COLDPLAY REALLY THAT "GAY"

"More:Album review: Coldplay tackl gun ntrol, police btaly on faiar 'Everyday Life'The Grammy-wng artist relled that his classmat would tell him wh nvictn that he was gay. "I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gone for their thg and, for a few years, they would very much say, 'You’re fely gay, '  que a full-on manner, que aggrsively tellg me that and was weird for me for a few years, " Mart add when he was younger he didn't know if he was gay and thought that even if he was, he thought was wrong. "I don't know and even if I am, I n't be bee 's wrong, " Mart said he thought at the time, addg he started to worry about beg said there me a time where he stopped worryg about beg gay, which he attributed to gag more exposure to the world and regnizg that some of his hero are gay.

GAY RIGHTS HAD A BIG MOMENT AT THE SUPER BOWL

The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.