Bowie bisexual
“I’m not gay!” How Bowie backtracked on his bisexuality for Let's Dance
David Bowie’s Let’s Dance album was released in A collaboration with Chic’s Nile Rodgers, it was an instant success: the title road became Bowie’s only unattached to go no.1 in the US and UK, while the parent album went on to offer 11 million copies and turned Bowie into the international star he had wanted to be. By the end of , it’s estimated that he earned around $50 million that year alone.
But the album divided Bowie fans. It had just eight songs and, of them, the title track and Cat People had already been released, China Girl was a new version of a song he'd written with Iggy Pop in , and Criminal World was a cover version of another let go by British band Metro – a song that had been banned by the BBC for allusions to gay sex. If it seemed tailor-made for Bowie, the changes he made to Criminal World gave us greater understanding into the David Bowie of than he perhaps intended.
He had just signed a new multi-million dollar deal with EMI America and was keen to repay the faith they had shown in him. “The kind of enthusiasm the
For people saying David Bowie does not belong in Pride month (I never thought I’d see this)
To those bashing David Bowie as not “belonging” in Pride month “because he was straight” and saying that he “came out as straight” in , please remember the following.
1. David Bowie also said he didn’t like to be quoted, especially in the early 80s because he knew he contradicted himself a lot. (Source: The book David Bowie: in his own words, published in Ironic, no?) Every few years he invented a new persona or stage identity and it just so happened his early 80s persona was supposedly straight. They were like characters he became. And they all had names. Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Thomas Jerome Newton / The Narrow White Duke, The Earthling… Ziggy, by the way, was openely bisexual.
2. Mick Jagger has admitted he and Bowie were lovers. (It was a distant time rumor eventually confirmed by Mick Jagger that yes, they slept together while David Bowie was still married to Angie Bowie).
3. Later during Bowie’s marriage to Iman David Bowie admitted to always having a sexual attraction to both men and women but he was quote “straight for her” which kind of indicates his origina
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david bowie wasn’t bisexual. he came out as pansexual, but later admitted he lied and that he regretted it. not only are his documented relationships with women, but:
said he was gay
in playboy, said “It’s true—I am a bisexual. But I can’t deny that I’ve used that proof very well. I imagine it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”
in rolling stone, said “his widespread declaration of bisexuality was ‘the biggest mistake I ever made’ and ‘I was always a closet heterosexual’.”
“[H]e said his interest in homosexual and attracted to both genders culture had been more a product of the times and the situation in which he create himself than his hold feelings; as described by Buckley, he said he had been driven more by ‘a compulsion to flout moral codes than a real biological and psychological state of being.’” x
he pretended to be gay and bisexual to get attention and materialize radical. he’s not a bisexual icon any more than james franco is a gay one.
i grasp that we’re not supposed to accuse people of faking bisexuality but [as a bisexual person] i’m exhausted. people do fake bisexuality and treat it like a statement. who can forget this hellish post??!!
anyway.
I always thought if I ever met Bowie one day, I might carefully, quietly, ask him the question&#; &#;So&#; were you&#; I mean&#; were you&#; were you ever REALLY gay?&#; And I conceive he would look at me and say, &#;Well, I thought I might be, but I wasn&#;t really sure.&#; As far as I could reveal, he&#;d never really answered the question except for being defensive about it in interviews, well into the &#;s.
Yesterday I came across this interview from , originally published in Arena. It&#;s lengthy, terribly interesting and cut and pasted in its entirety from the Exploring David Bowie blog (with thanks). I posted it on this site under the articles heading because there&#;s lots of great stuff in there&#; answers to about every question you&#;d ever want to demand Bowie except what is up with Coco, anyway?
So his answer is beautiful much what I would guess and assume&#; and remember this is , so he uses absolute statements like, &#;with gays it is like x, y or z&#;&#; It&#;s the loose kind of language we wouldn&#;t employ today, much as we would never say, &#;among blacks it&#;s like this&#;&#; or &#;among women it&#;s like this&#;&#; But the point is there. The answer to my scrutinize, i
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