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PETE'S GAY AFFAIRS REVELATN
The Who's guarist Pete Townshend has told how he had homosexual liaisons his youth. ' I ' m 57, I ' ve got a young girliend, I'm not gay.
Back when The Who emerged the 1960s, homosexualy was still illegal, and even after was fally legimised a urt of law, large swaths of society refed to accept . It was a dangero place to be openly gay. The mastermd behd The Who was quoted by The Daily Star newspaper’s Wired lumn as sayg: “Wh ‘I’m A Boy’ [1966 sgle] ’s the ia of masculy and the way that men are seen to be at a time when I often fet, to be homosexual, to be pansexual, as I thk I probably was, but not anymore.
” Addg: “I thk I fet that homosexualy was still illegal, so the adventur had to be uched vigt of humour and irony. Alice Cooper later perfectly summarised the charm of the song, statg: “You have Pete’s sexual ambiguy gog on here — sounds like a gay song.