Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford rells the story of when he me out as gay durg an MTV terview 1998.
Contents:
- ROB HALFORD LOOKS BACK ON G OUT AS GAY ON MTV: “IT’S A GLOR MOMENT”
- JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS
- ROB HALFORD RELLS WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY
- WHEN JUDAS PRIT’S ROB HALFORD ME OUT AS GAY, THE METAL CROWD SAID: ‘YOU THK WE DIDN’T KNOW?’
- “IN THOSE DAYS, YOU DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THOSE KD OF THGS”. ROB HALFORD'S REACTN TO BEG METAL’S FIRST GAY IN
- WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
- JUDAS PRIEST'S IAN HILL: 'WE KNEW' ROB HALFORD WAS GAY BEFORE HE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED IT
- GAY JU PRIT: “WE DREAM OF A CHURCH THAT WILL ACCEPT .”
- JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS
ROB HALFORD LOOKS BACK ON G OUT AS GAY ON MTV: “IT’S A GLOR MOMENT”
Judas Prit's Rob Halford has marked Pri month by reflectg on the moment he me out as gay on televisn. * gay member of judas priest *
Judas Prit‘s Rob Halford has marked Pri month by reflectg on the moment he me out as gay on televisn. “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.
JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS
'We always knew Rob was gay,' K.K. Downg said. * gay member of judas priest *
“Mentally, on top of beg the gay man the closet, I had all the extra piec piled onto my life at that time. Unlike his famo peers, Halford was navigatg heavy metal’s bchero, dg-fueled 1980s heyday and the heights of his own band’s stratospheric populary as a closeted gay man who was petrified about the potential nsequenc of revealg his te self. “What if got out that I was gay, fans didn’t want anythg to do wh a band onted by a queer, and killed Judas Prit stone ad?
” He soon had to open a new office Arizona to handle all of the grateful letters om queer fans thankg him for givg them the strength to live their own Halford CostelloNow, after livg the public’s electric eye for most of his life, heavy metal’s most famo tattooed leather daddy (who’s actually been as good as hched for 30 years and scrib his own sex life as “vanilla”) proudly refers to himself as “the stately homo of heavy metal.
ROB HALFORD RELLS WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY
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Rob Halford's Judas Prit bandmat knew the ontman was gay long before he me out 1998, but they kept his secret to protect the band's image.
WHEN JUDAS PRIT’S ROB HALFORD ME OUT AS GAY, THE METAL CROWD SAID: ‘YOU THK WE DIDN’T KNOW?’
Judas Prit’s ‘Metal God’ discs the joys of leather, g out as a gay metalhead, and how he keeps 'Breakg the Law' h. * gay member of judas priest *
"We always knew Rob was gay, " Downg said on a recent appearance on the "No F**k' Regrets Wh Robb Flynn" podst.
“IN THOSE DAYS, YOU DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THOSE KD OF THGS”. ROB HALFORD'S REACTN TO BEG METAL’S FIRST GAY IN
"Obvly, there have been gay metalheads sce metal was vented, but [back the 1970s and ’80s] we were visible." * gay member of judas priest *
"What were the chanc of him beg gay (or, if he was, of admtg )? And, of urse, the overridg fear that was to lim my existence for s: What if got out that I was gay and fans didn't want anythg to do wh a band onted by a queer, and killed Judas Prit stone ad? In honor of Pri Month, Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford — one of the first metal micians to e out as gay and certaly the most well-known at the time — has relled the story of how he announced his sexual orientatn to the world durg an MTV terview 1998, explag that he hadn’t planned to make the reveal that day but found an immediate relief.
WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
"Obvly, there have been gay metalheads sce metal was vented, but [back the 1970s and ’80s] we were visible." * gay member of judas priest *
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. And while the young man knew he was gay om childhood, th far, his only timate experienc were trmatic on.
JUDAS PRIEST'S IAN HILL: 'WE KNEW' ROB HALFORD WAS GAY BEFORE HE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED IT
But Confs n’t be rced to a llectn of salac gay enunters, e bg or romanticized rock’n’roll horror stori.
GAY JU PRIT: “WE DREAM OF A CHURCH THAT WILL ACCEPT .”
Yeah, pecially when we talk about the acceptance of my sexualy, which every gay person go through.
JUDAS PRIT ALWAYS KNEW ROB HALFORD WAS GAY, EX-MEMBER SPILLS
And unls you’re a gay person, you n’t unrstand that, you n’t prehend . Well, no ’s nothg to do wh the S&M world or other subcultur the gay world! But years later when you started g the Handkerchief Co on stage (a system ed gay culture the 70s), that was a ltle different, right?