1983. David Bowie chang his md about beg gay. - Gay the 80s

Contents:

• WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
• BOY GEE REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY, SAYS DAVID BOWIE HELPED HIM FEEL HE WASN'T ALONE
• BOWIE: ‘I’M GAY AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN’
• 1983. DAVID BOWIE CHANG HIS MD ABOUT BEG GAY.

WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y

Bowie, 69, was not jt a pop idol but a the days sce his ath, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr fans have shared how the rocker fluenced their liv and helped brg queer culture to the mastream the 1960s and 1970s. “Feelg those sentiments was important, pecially as a gay youth who was not out at the time. “I’m gay, ” he said to the journalist Michael Watts 1972, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon, ” his name at years later, an article for Rollg Stone tled “Straight Time, ” Mr.

BOY GEE REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY, SAYS DAVID BOWIE HELPED HIM FEEL HE WASN'T ALONE

Bowie, who married two women and had two children, would still face the qutn terviews years later: Was he gay or bisexual?

BOWIE: ‘I’M GAY AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN’

” In other words, he was not a mpaigner for gay rights, but Mr. Lowr ntued, “but, pecially at the begng of his reer, he was regnizably ‘gay.

’ It didn’t matter whether he was gay, straight or bisexual, he was a massive role mol. The 22 January 1972 issue of the Melody Maker rried a groundbreakg terview wh David Bowie, which the sger admted he was “gay, and always have been.

1983. DAVID BOWIE CHANG HIS MD ABOUT BEG GAY.

“I’m gay, ” he says, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon. We were all pretty broad-md on Melody Maker so the gayns didn’t put off him. But there you BowieMojo, July 2002Although Bowie was not yet a hoehold name, the story was picked up by the Eveng Standard newspaper, which republished the “I’m gay” quotatn.

Bowie’s former manager Kenh Pt was not imprsed: “I wasn’t at all happy when the ‘I’m Gay terview appeared’, ” he said. ‘I’m gay, ’ he said, ‘and always have been, even when I was David Jon.