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'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'

Boyzone sger Stephen Gately has announced that he is gay * is boyzone gay *

But equally, no one qutned too closely Boyzone star was - whisper - gay. 'Everybody knew that Stephen was gay, ' says Peter Lorae, former edor of Top of the Pops magaze.

We're not buyg Boyzone rerds any, at least, was the prevailg view an dtry still ltle ed to alg wh gay pop stars who weren't 'antly' - or jt flamboyantly - queer like Boy Gee, Jimmy Somerville, Pete Burns or Frankie Go To Hollywood.

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.

'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'

Boy bands have always brimmed wh gay members. Jt ask the sgers and their lovers! * is boyzone gay *

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.

'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'

Stephen Gately, the openly gay member of the Irish "boy band" Boyzone has died while on holiday the Balearic island Mallor (Major). The 33-year-old was on holiday wh his civil partner Andrew Cowl and is reported that he went out for drks, went back to his flat, feel asleep and then died. * is boyzone gay *

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.

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. '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. An avalanche of flowers and msag om his pop peers (Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys) and gay ins (Elton, Gee) rolled over Gately.

'I'M GAY AND A BOY BAND!'

'Neher of them is gog, "Hey, I'm a gay role mol. 'Do anyone re now if a pop star is gay or straight?

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

No one seemed too exced when Mark Feehily om Wtlife me out the Sun Augt last year, nor when Lance Bass om Jt Timberlake's old band, 'NSync, clared earlier this summer: 'I'm gay.

Robbie Williams repeatedly jok about beg gay but steady on, he is not, and last year took £200, 000 off the People, the Star and Hot Stars for allegg that he had got on wh a bloke a Manchter nightclub.

BOYZONE SGER GATELY NFIRMS HE IS GAY BEFORE STORY N BE SOLD

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But a iend had recently been expelled om the le-up of a new band 'beg put together by a major rerd label' after admtg he was gay.

VIO: GAY BOYZONE STAR STEPHEN GATELY FOUND AD WHILE ON HOLIDAY

His manager told him: 'We're sorry but we don't want any gay guys this band.

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