Judas Prit Volist Rob Halford talked durg pri month and tell the story of him g out as a gay and what he went through.
Contents:
- WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
- ROB HALFORD LOOKS BACK ON G OUT AS GAY ON MTV: “IT’S A GLOR MOMENT”
- JUDAS PRIT VOLIST TALKED ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY
- JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS
- ROB HALFORD JUDAS PRIT SE PRENTó O “EL GAY LA BANDA” Y DIJO QUE “LA UNIDAD HEAVY CLUYE A TODOS”
WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
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Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford has always lived a loud and proud heavy metal life, but only 1998 durg an MTV terview did he bee the first metal in to announce he is gay.
“I thk that every gay person has a bigger story to tell than jt, 'Hello, I'm out, 's me, '” Halford, who turned 69 last month, told me a phone terview ahead of the book’s publitn on Tuday.
ROB HALFORD LOOKS BACK ON G OUT AS GAY ON MTV: “IT’S A GLOR MOMENT”
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He wanted to sce Iron Main sger Pl Di’Anno, and he sported bandanas onstage that were a lor-d ve to gay amid the lorful stori are darker moments, both terms of dtry algs and pecially keepg himself closeted for so long. Halford was born 1951, and homosexualy was illegal the U. While a few mastream metal ontwomen like Otep and Lzzy Hale have been open recent years about beg gay or bisexual, Halford remas the only major gay male metal fans are often attracted to the aggrsive and theraptic nature of the genre — ’s a great way to let out pent-up tratn and feel empowered — and many skew more to the right than some of their ins.
Judas Prit‘s Rob Halford has marked Pri month by reflectg on the moment he me out as gay on televisn.
JUDAS PRIT VOLIST TALKED ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY
El emblemáti metalero ntó que en los años 80, s reprentant y sello disgráfi le exigieron que ocultara su sexualidad: “Decían que si me claraba gay podía stir al gpo” * cantante de judas priest gay *
“And I said somethg to the effect of, ‘Well, speakg as a gay man, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was one of those gay sharp tak, ‘Oh my God, he’s e out.
I thk if I’d…I still say today, if I’d have really thought this through, like today’s the day I’m gog to e out, maybe I even wouldn’t… maybe I may not have e out per se, bee ’s still a big moment for so many of , wh a close iend, wh someone at school, wh Mum and Dad, wh whomever, to actually say, ‘Hey, I’m a gay guy or I’m a gay girl. “So wow, was jt this enormo feelg of eedom, and the prsure was gone, and there’s no more talkg behd your back bee you have all this ammunn of power as a gay person now, as an out gay person. “Mentally, on top of beg the gay man the closet, I had all the extra piec piled onto my life at that time.
JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS
Rob Halford, maly known for his work wh Judas Prit talked about g out as a gay durg his terview. He told the story and how he felt about beg a gay mician the late ’70s and about his announcement 1998. The Judas Prit Volist is the first metal in that me out as gay 1998.
He me out as gay an MTV terview this year. It was one of those thgs where I’m at MTV New York, I’m talkg about a project that I was workg on, and the sual urse of the nversatn and I said somethg to the effect of, ‘Well, speakg as a gay man… blah blah blah blah blah.
It was one of those gay sharp tak of breath: ‘Oh my God! He even wrote an tobgraphy lled “Confs” where Judas Prit volist Halford tells what he has gone through as a gay man the metal world. Rob Halford, el ntante Judas Prit, una las bandas fundamental en la historia l heavy metal, nfó que en los años '80 tuvo un tento suicid por las prn su sello disgráfi para que ocultara su homosexualidad, y ante el temor que su ndición sexual alejara a s fans.
ROB HALFORD JUDAS PRIT SE PRENTó O “EL GAY LA BANDA” Y DIJO QUE “LA UNIDAD HEAVY CLUYE A TODOS”
"Estaba en una posición muy difícil: un gay ndiendo su intidad en una popularísima banda heavy metal.
Nutros reprentant y nutro sello me dijeron que probablemente era mejor mantener mi intidad sexual oculta porque si me claraba gay podía stir al gpo", rerdó el volista en una entrevista al diar El País. Más allá to, Halford nsiró que "si hubie sido heterosexual, los rultados en Judas Prit hubien sido buenos, pero siendo un rockero gay, son mejor".