For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre 'love letters' to the LGBTQ muny.
Contents:
- SAVAGE GARN'S DARREN HAY SAYS MIC 'SAVED MY LIFE' AFTER YEARS OF DENYG HIS GAY INTY
- SAVAGE GARN: DARREN HAY TOLD HE 'LOOKED GAY' MIC VIO
- POP STAR DARREN HAY REVEALS HE THOUGHT HE WAS GOG TO 'DIE OM AIDS' WHEN HE REALISED HE WAS GAY
- DARREN HAY HAS THE PERFECT RPONSE TO HATER WHO SAYS HE’S “TOO OLD” AND “TOO GAY”
SAVAGE GARN'S DARREN HAY SAYS MIC 'SAVED MY LIFE' AFTER YEARS OF DENYG HIS GAY INTY
Watchg the rise of younger gay pop stars, the 50-year-old former Savage Garn sger felt grief for the youth he never had. He speaks about g out, his mental health stggl and returng to mic * is darren hayes gay *
The 50-year-old openly gay sger penned an emotnal op-ed for the HuffPost on July 1, revealg that stggl he had g to terms wh his sexualy led him to "the brk of suici. After the group disband 2001, Hay — who was married to ex-wife Colby Taylor om 1994 to 2000 — eventually me out as gay.
But the HuffPost say is the first time he has ndidly addrsed the severe mental health stggl he once faced due to beg gay. On the ver of his new album, Darren Hay ss proudly behd hot pk neon letters that spell out “Homosexual”. ”Today, might not e as a shock to hear that Hay – who has been married to a man for the past 17 years, and headled this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras – is gay.
SAVAGE GARN: DARREN HAY TOLD HE 'LOOKED GAY' MIC VIO
Darren Hay has revealed that he lived fear of ntractg HIV and dyg of AIDS when he first realised he was gay as a young boy. * is darren hayes gay *
Hay eventually me out, but feels beg an openly gay man at the turn of the century thwarted the solo reer he embarked on after the breakup of Savage Garn – which is why he has chosen to recle behd that blazg neon ephet. “I did not want to be gay. The story of how he me to make Homosexual is emotnal, but is one that Hay wants to tell.
He grew up the rigidly nservative Queensland of the 1970s, where his father lled him the F word, he says, and kids at school bullied him for beg gay before he knew what that meant.
POP STAR DARREN HAY REVEALS HE THOUGHT HE WAS GOG TO 'DIE OM AIDS' WHEN HE REALISED HE WAS GAY
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He and then-bandmate Daniel Jon had been sent to Sydney to work on the first Savage Garn album when, one day, he walked to a gay porn cema “ a trance”. “I had the most amazg person on the other end of the le, and they said, ‘Listen, ’s fe, you’re probably gay.
DARREN HAY HAS THE PERFECT RPONSE TO HATER WHO SAYS HE’S “TOO OLD” AND “TOO GAY”
Hay feels that new chapter was never given the chance to succeed, scribg his experienc of homophobia the dtry at that time. “I did my first vio for [lead sgle] Insatiable … I had blon hair, I was dancg [ ] and the head of the rerd pany told everyone that I looked ‘too gay’.
”Darren Hay says he named his new rerd Homosexual as a way to ‘take that name back for myself’. But he also began to wns the cultural shifts around the acceptance of homosexualy and the new wave of openly gay pop artists who were climbg the charts.