Greta Van Fleet Lead Sger Com Out as Gay, Shockg No One – IOTW Report

Contents:

• ROB HALFORD LOOKS BACK ON G OUT AS GAY ON MTV: “IT’S A GLOR MOMENT”
• WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
• CHRISTIAN ROCK STAR OUT AS GAY. HERE’S THE LETTER HE WROTE TO THE WORLD
• CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• GRETA VAN FLEET LEAD SGER COM OUT AS GAY, SHOCKG NO ONE

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. “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.

WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY

“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 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. 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.

CHRISTIAN ROCK STAR OUT AS GAY. HERE’S THE LETTER HE WROTE TO THE WORLD

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.

"I love you Josh, " the Metal God, who publicly me out as gay 1998, wrote the ments.

But he cid to put his reer on the le this week and acknowledge to his fans that he is gay.

CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

“I never wanted to be gay, ” he tells (614). “I was not makg an optn to be gay so I uld be loyal to her and my children, ” he told me.

But he cid to put his reer on the le this week and acknowledge to his fans that he is gay.

His study of the Scriptur, he says, has led him to believe that the handful of Bible vers that directly addrs homosexualy do not prohib the kd of lovg, mted gay relatnships known to the morn world.

GRETA VAN FLEET LEAD SGER COM OUT AS GAY, SHOCKG NO ONE

Pearson’s shift plac him the center of a growg movement of popular Christian micians who are g out as gay and are advotg for a more open and acceptg posture the church. Ray Boltz, whose songs were stapl evangelil church throughout the 1990s, me out as gay 2004. Grammy-nomated Anthony Williams beme the first openly gay gospel artist  2009.

Sce Christian mic fans tend to be nservative and believe that homosexual acts are sful, you won’t hear the artists’ mic played most church or on Christian rad the days. He will perform at Wild Goose, the Christian ftival July, and hop to bee a voice wh the burgeong “gay Christian” movement.

To make an extremely long story short, I have e to be able to adm to myself, and to my fay, that I am gay.