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Contents:
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
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Now, he n talk about beg a gay man the hetero world of '70s and '80s big-time rock 'n' roll. "You'd see rock stars make fun of gay men, but then you see the guys put on makp and have long hair and take on affectatns like girls, but that's so they would not be threateng to girls.
Yet, for a gay man was slightly easier beg Styx rather than say, Kiss or Aerosmh, whose randy songs celebrated sex and whose members actively rearched that material.
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
The episo as rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the untry, where homosexualy is a crime. * styx gay band member *
Now, he n talk about beg a gay man the hetero world of ’70s and ’80s big-time rock ‘n’ roll.
“You’d see rock stars make fun of gay men, but then you see the guys put on makp and have long hair and take on affectatns like girls, but that’s so they would not be threateng to girls. In the book, Panozzo wr about growg up gay Chigo, his double life Styx, and his HIV diagnosis 1991 — yet another secret he kept hidn.
In 1998, Styx bassist Chuck Panozzo was rather sick wh HIV, and stgglg as a closeted gay man—while performg one of the world’s most succsful * styx gay band member *
Panozzo, who is active gay rights and also dabbl art, tours wh the band as often as his health allows.
"My dilemma was, if I e out as gay and there's a backlash, am I willg to my reer and four other people's reers?
But more personal heartache followed when Panozzo's iend of 22 years, Richard, died of HIV-related passg propelled Panozzo to actn: He me out as gay and HIV-posive at a Human Rights Campaign dner the same year.