Boyzone sger Stephen Gately has announced that he is gay
Contents:
- 'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'
- BOYZONE SGER GATELY NFIRMS HE IS GAY BEFORE STORY N BE SOLD
- BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
- VIDEO: BOYZONE MAKE HISTORY AS THEY BEE FIRST BOY BAND TO CLU GAY LOVE TERT
- VIO: GAY BOYZONE STAR STEPHEN GATELY FOUND AD WHILE ON HOLIDAY
'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'
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BOYZONE SGER GATELY NFIRMS HE IS GAY BEFORE STORY N BE SOLD
Boy bands have always brimmed wh gay members. Jt ask the sgers and their lovers! * boyzone members gay *
In this prelapsarian era of all of seven years ago, if a boy band member were revealed to be homosexual, the very fabric of the pop myth would be rent asunr.
'Boyzone Stephen: "I'm gay and I'm love"', screamed the ont-page headle. A secury guard on Boyzone's tour had gone to the papers, sellg a story that Gately was gay. 'Not that I wanted to go out to gay clubs and bars.
Was the outg of Gately about to overwhelm the promotnal mpaign, beg the gay tail that wagged the mass-market dog? You eher say, y, I'm gay, or you say nothg at all.
BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
Pop fans may be for a surprise when they see rned group Boyzone's latt vio, bee featur gay sger Stephen Gately cuddled up to a male. * boyzone members gay *
He says he alt 'many tim' wh havg a member of one of his boy bands - not necsarily any menned here - who was secretly gay.
VIDEO: BOYZONE MAKE HISTORY AS THEY BEE FIRST BOY BAND TO CLU GAY LOVE TERT
'I still thk, as a gay man myself, 's very difficult at an early stage to know your arse om your elbow and know where you're at sexually, ' he says. Asked if he was a gay pop star, Tennant replied: 'No, I'm a pop star that happens to be gay. If he had admted to his homosexualy ' the early stag [of our reer]', Michael told me Febary 2004, ' would have ed , absolutely.
VIO: GAY BOYZONE STAR STEPHEN GATELY FOUND AD WHILE ON HOLIDAY
An avalanche of flowers and msag om his pop peers (Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys) and gay ins (Elton, Gee) rolled over Gately.